American Reacts to Futuristic Things in Europe that Make The US Look Old... 

Hamburg has its own MC Donalds pick-up pier for boats and kayaks, virtually a Paddle Thru.😂

In the Czech Republic, we have so-called book boxes in public places. If you have a book that you no longer want, you put it there and someone else can take it home. Anonymously, forever and for free. And in the forest near my town there is a hiking trail and a self-service "pub". There is a 50l barrel of local beer and passers-by can tap their beer here. And what is more interesting, the payment is voluntary. However, people donate relatively higher amounts than the cost of regular beer. :D

The Wi-Fi trash can also got an solar powered motor to compress the trash so it doesn't have to be emptied as often, as well as a function to signal to the company that empties it when it starts to get full. That way you save quite a bit of money (and the enviroment) when you don't have to empty it so often.

In Finland it's also common for libraries to rent out like anything. My local library has eg. art, bicycles, tools (drills, chainsaw etc.), board games and even electric car for rent. For free of course because it's library.

There was a rock venue in Finland where all the urinals had Putins face on in. All of these gimmicks are made to get your aim better so there is not so much cleaning to do after.

The small 24/7 self-service stores are getting more common in Sweden too. They're usually located in smaller places where there isn't really demand enough to have a proper supermarket and you have to identify yourself using a digital ID to enter.

I'm from Southern Germany and most farmers here have their own vending machine, from which you can get their and other local products, like fruit, bread, meat, cheese, sausages, fruit wine and more. All fresh, like literally from the field that is next to the vending machine, and/or produced locally.

There's art rentals in Finland too - You get the art You like and start paying a small monthly fee (starting from like 5-10€/month) - if You pay the fee long enough the art becomes yours. If you want some variation in the art/decor of your home, you can visit art rental services to exchange paintings, sculptures, etc., with new ones as often as you like, even once a month. The art available for rent is of high quality and created by professional artists, with plenty of options to choose from.

not sure if its futuristic or not but the busses and trams in the Netherlands are leveled so that you can enter with a wheelchair, busses autmaticly lower a bit so that they are aligned with the bus bus stop

About the Hague (1) it's a city in Netherlands. There are also citis from Asia, not only from Europe (Singapore). Also, in Poland in some stores ussualy with electronic equipment also there are electric price marks (15)

I'm from Germany, I've seen the magnifying glasses in a few stores, usually in drug stores. So far I thought it was for older people so that they can read the find print on the products better. I also saw in different kind of stores the digital pricing tags, but I kinda like the paper ones better, because sometimes they're harder to read (I guess they're low on battery)

In Finland, e-ink-based price markers are quite common in supermarkets. And robots are delivering food from grocery stores in the capital region.

The art rental reminds me of the toy libraries we have all over New Zealand, its great for growing kids so you just swap toys as they grow out of them or get bored. Great for young families that can't afford new toys all the time.

With the fancy bus stop, I imagine it's like a adoption system, a house or street can choose to adopt a bus stop and decorate it to their liking. Which if you are someone that lives right near one and you use the bus often, I can see people doing. Just bought new furniture and don't need your old, but still perfectly fine furniture anymore? Well, just use it to decorate your "local" bus stop. You will be using the bus stop later anyways, so the nicer and more comfortable you make it for others, to nicer and more comfortable you make it for yourself too.

In Sweden we had the only floating McD. It was the only international too, was placed on a ferry / cruise ship that went between Sweden and Finland.

About digital price tags : here in France, almost every shop uses them. Only the very small ones, especially exotic grocery stores still uses paper price tags. Otherwise, everytime you go to a shop, you will see digital pricetags that are updated regularly

In the Netherlands digital price markers are in many supermarkets. And we have self scan for the things we want to buy there. You can rent art here too. Pizza boxes are recycled as paper. We have to separate all our waste to recycle.

In The Netherlands we have toilets that come out of the ground outside, and we also have toilets that clean the whole toilet after your done😂Also we have art to rent, app that show if there is alot of people in the train, busstops tell you when the bus arive, if it is late it will also tell that, all public transport have wifi, public libary also, and some supermarkts also. Also we have electric price signs, you can also ordee food online from Jumbo and in 30 minutes you can pick it up, and they put it in the back of your car, we also have drive tru construction markets, called hornbach, they sell stuff for construction, you can drive into the building, and they will put it in your lorry, or car. And every supermarket also delivers food to your house. You even have supermarkets who only sell like 500 products, and they deliver food and stuff in 10 minutes!

In poland in the big cietes (above 200k pop) there are benches with usb charging ports or an outlet, soketimes they have speakers to play music and sometimes its a stationart bike that you need to pedal to charge

About libraries...in my home town in Finland, I can loan bicycles, frisbee golf gear, skis, darts games, golf bags, hula-loops, petanque sets, skates, umbrellas, blood pressure meters, activity trackers etc etc. For free😂 This was actually a surprise for me, just heard about this some months ago. Usually the time for loan books is one month, but these specialties it's shorter. Some days-3 weeks. But free of charge.

Considering you liked the beer vending machine you will also enjoy learning about a beer fountain in Slovenia!

The in-ground trampolines were quiet common. But most of them are not new. In fact a lot of them are already replaced by something newer.

Here in Glasgow Scotland we have a bicycle hiring scheme . We have 67 docking stations across the city with bicycles ready to use with around 500 bikes that anyone including tourists can hire for the day just by registering online . And at the end of the day when you have finished you don't have to return the bike to the same docking station that you picked it up from . Docking stations are in the city centre , outside train & bus stations , airports , museums etc . This is great for tourists who want to explore the city and keep the cost of travelling down . I believe Dublin also introduced this scheme as well .

I work at a supermarket here in Australia and they give away off cuts of lettuce that can't be sold to people if they ask for it.

In the Netherlands you can rent art as well. You rent it for a certain time and bring it back and take some otger art home. It is called the art library. People love it. Even with a small purse you can have art on your wall.

I do like to blend in as a tourist but I think it's good to stand out in traffic - when you see a rental car you give it a bit of extra space and count on them not knowing exactly where they are going. Many cities in Europe have good bike rentals that locals use too so you wouldn't stand out anyway but usually they aren't quite as good as the "normal" bikes, so I think it's more about a good riding experience.

Thousands of red phone boxes are being offered to communities across the country to be reimagined as defibrillator stations or even art galleries. Nearly 4,000 of BT’s boxes from across the UK are now available through the Adopt a Kiosk programme, which allows local authorities to buy them for just £1. Since 2008, more than 6,600 of the booths have been given away and transformed into various local services, including defibrillator units, mini history museums, art galleries and book exchanges. BT said public-use phone boxes were slowly made redundant by the “phenomenal growth in mobiles”, adding that mobile coverage has also “improved significantly in recent years due to investment in masts, particularly in rural areas”.

Digital price tags are actually a lot more common. I can say that in France, Romania and a few other countries, almost all super/hipermarkets use digital "paper" (e-ink). They look like paper, but are actually digital. Trampolines like those in Germany I also saw in Spain.

In Romania, specifically the city of Cluj-Napoca, there are specific “sport” stations where if you do 20 squats, you get free bus tickets!

The furnitured busstop made it for me, can't wait to have these in Vienna. I'm just afraid that these would get vandalized within minutes. A McWalk would also come in handy if you wanted, say, just a couple of cheeseburgers for the little hunger. the park bench system, where you can choose the direction of sitting, sounds very useful.

In Switzerland you can get not just cheese but cheese fondue mix from vending machines - same in parts of France.

in Adelaide Australia you can actually press a button at a bus stop to tell the bus driver you want to get on and also you can press the button an announcement tells you what time the next bus is coming similar at a train station when you do the same thing it also tells you when the next train is coming

24/7 store is not common in Norway, also because we have laws against open stores on sundays ... well not against, but rules how big they can be. I am sure that store is probably not in a city but maybe a town ... I have heard of it atleast. But also those digital pricetags are quite common ... its not only to help replace the papertags, they can change price on the spot ... so faster I suppose. Some libraries here in Norway do lend out alot more stuff than just books, One I know of lend out outdoor equipment like ski's and backpacks, sledge and so on ... they get a extra yearly budget to replenish or fix the stuff. Another library I know of lend out seeds ... yep, plant seeds ... you can lend like tomatoe seeds, plant them and then return the seeds you borrowed.

Here in Australia we have free sanitation product dispensers - called Dignity Vending Machines - in numerous locations around the country.

I live in the Netherlands, and all grocery stores near me have digital price markers.

Dutch busstop signs are pretty cool, they give you an exact time when your bus will be arriving down to the minute.

Italy is famous for its bureaucracy in addition to food culture art etc. but for some years we have already overcome many difficulties with the SPID or a code that you can use through an app by scanning a QR code that allows you to access all departments of the public administration and you can complete all the online procedures, example: you can make a request for a blood test and if you are unable to go to the clinic a paramedic comes to your home to take your blood and then you can find the reports online in your National Health File, also everything free

Great reaction again, as usual. Each time I watch your videos I also learn something about the US. Thanks a lot and please do keep the videos coming. Regarding the petrol.. sorry, gas station, Europe has many different types of fuel. There's E5 (with 5% Bio-ethanol), E10 (with 10%) and unlike the US we do not have E20 widely available yet, then there's Super 98 (RON/ROZ - basically Octane), there's Diesel and some petrol brands have their own type of "racing" fuel - petrol has over 100 Octane, not sure what the difference is for the "racing" diesel. I occasionally use that becaues I *THINK* the engine runs smoother on it, but that could also be my imagination. Finally some stations also provide gas (as in LNG/CNG/LPG), but the 'taps' look completely different.

You can buy beer in crates at german gas stations. Usually around the clock. A crate is 20 x 0.5 liters!

Lower north shore Sydney they have a switch that you step on and a dog's bowl appears, it catches water from the water fountain. We have bins that are hands free emptying, check if a bottle is deemed to be recyclable before it goes in the recycling bin.

The art to rent is a fantastic idea! You can choose a painting of your interest and instead of rushing over it in the library or a gallery, you can take it home and let it do its work on you for hours, days or weeks. If you like it you can buy a copy of the piece or if you like to change things often you can have different paintings all the time...cool idea.

I learned today that a “puke sink” is a thing 😆

I've been awake since the early hours of this morning, (UK based) and just watched this. You've put a smile on my face with your irrepressible good humour. Many thanks. xx

In Germany we have the Tafel, where things (food, ...) which otherwise would be thrown away are sold to people without a lot of money for a very low price....

6.55 the bike path through a lake, that's close to my home. It is pretty cool . When you look over the water, your head is going to be just above the waterlevel. This is at Bokrijk in Genk.(about 90km or 60 miles from Brussels). In the middle of the province Limburg.

7:49 there are actually versions of those trash cans that talks. They say stuff like "Thank you" etc , its rly funny actually

Here in Germany our national train company recently started opening stores that automatically register the products you've taken out of the shelfs and then automatically bills you the moment you leave the store. I really like the idea. No need for staff and no need to stop at the checkout, you just walk out and your PayPal, Google Pay or whatever does the rest.

Trains in London now also say which carriage is full or empty

Dig a pit for trampolines and it's awesome... Did it as kids to be able to learn to flip & tumble

9:54 Usually you also have a cell phone holder and sometimes in some shops the cell phone can also be charged with the shopping carts

The slide is nice and used by kids every day. It is two stories high and really steep.

We have had digital price markers in Norway for 30 years. The 24 hr crewless stores are standard in small communities

In Sweden, in the train the seats are all reversible: great when the train changes direction.

Digital price markers is common in most all grocery stores in Norway, even the smal ones. Its so much easier for the staff to fix the prices, and better for consumers (can be hard tom read when they're low on battery though). Also self/checkouts have been fairly common in supermarkeds here. Its great for when you dont have that many items. Keeps the que's shorter. Nope, newer seen a bus stop like that here in Norway. Of course i have not been everywhere, but i wouldn't be surprised to see one especially around tourists spots. The "box" itself is a common design.

the football goal in the urinoir is something I have seen a growing up in the netherlands. Shady bars would have all kinds of little games and color changing stickers.

My suburb in a Southern German town has a sausage vending machine. We have several supermarkets with electronic price tags on the shelves and fruit and vegetables which might not be dew fresh are sold at a very low price especially after the weekend. ( Lidl). :) And there is a baker's shop that ONLY sells bread and cakes from the day before half price !

4:49 those lcd price markers was common 20 years ago but they was replaces with a sort of e-inc to use less power. The e-inc one also looks almost exactly like a paper one so most people will probobally miss them 24/7 grosery store is getting quite common. We have one in the vilage. 8:24 those trashcans qre pretty common. They also compact the trash automatically. 10:08 that is not mail. Its like uber-eats. Very common in several cities in europe. 11:02 I think its diesel, HVO ("green diesel"), E85, 95 octane and 98 octane. They are all pretty common. The 98 is probobly the least common. A lot o öf european sportscars can run on E85 as a octane boast fuel. 14:50 It use to be just one fylke. (There eqviqlent to municipality) and they just start taking furniture from the recykeling that look decent there. I think they swich them out every once and a while. But its lile just stuff people thrown away. In sweden we have, its not quite a wending machine, but it looks like one. You just shop on there webpage and 20 minutes later its in a box, you just pull your cars and you have your shopingbag reddy. Can you order up on downtime at work, and just swipe your cars and get it instantly on the way home.

In Belgium we have a lot of vending machines. the normal ones for snacks and drinks, than we have bread, water, all kinds of fruits, potatoes, eggs, beer, milk vending machines. We can also rent boardgames, cd/dvd, PC/ console games, newspapers and such in the library. Art is very interesting but if you like to change the art hanging around the house from time to time i say why not. The digital price tag is not uncommon either, a lot of markets have it. The McWalk (not always under that name) I have spotted elsewhere and at some point i think we had wifi bins as well.

Renting art is actually quite common in Europe. I used to have a neighbour that ran an art rental company.

11:17 I have no idea what kind of music Ländler is. Also @IWrocker you could take a look at "no garbage day in Amsterdam". You bring your garbage out whenever you like.

My local bus company app tells the make of bus fleet no single or double decker whether on-time busy or not and has a map showing where the bus is on its route it is.

Digital price markers are in use here in Germany as well; my local grocery store opened last month and uses them. Staff told me they love them

We do use digital price markers in Slovakia, depends on shops (e.g. COOP Jednota has them), but it's definitely a common thing to me. We have also vending machines for fresh, raw milk, or for cheese and yoghurts, and during the pandemic we've had vending machines with hand-made facemasks. That wifi trash can is great, it's a nudge. We have little see-through trash cans on a wall, they are divided in two parts with names of two local sport teams and people can vote with their cigarette butts for their favorite.

Berlin has reversible benches too. Art is often rented for special occations, big parties, when someone important comes to visit. Also you can decorate your office without buying the painting or sculpture.

Whole Foods has been having digital prices on grocery items for at least 10 years. New Orleans has a sculpture park that allows you to walk along the lake above you. The solar trash can/compactor has been all over downtown New Orleans for at least 5 years. I don't assume its the only place with them in the US. It seems like no research was done on the part of the writer of the article and this channel.

Hello from Czechia. The green for pets on shops is here common practise. We also have here in-ground trampolines - nearby my block of flats there is an "active park" with workout machines, skate park and so son and there are five trampolines in the middle of the lawn. Those are strong enough even for adults. And there are more places in town with different work out machines. I use them from time to time. We laso have a small shop working 24/7 - there are open hours with shop assistants but the rest is possible to enter with application working with your bank ID, so you can buy whatever you need and use a special cash machine and left. The lock on the doors work with the application also. And I know there are some cities with the wi-fi trash bins but I never seen them myself. The cities I´ve been to uses big undergroud conteiners ended up with tha smal trash bin upside in the pavement - they are changed with a special car machine.

4:58 Most supermarkets in Denmark only uses "ESL"s (Electronic Shelf Labels) so they just have to be linked and then they automaticly updates when prices are changed.

Do a part 2, I think that a lot of us liked this video!

In the Netherlands there is a 24 shop in almost all neighbourhoods. Even in small towns there will be at least one. They are not full supermarkets but small shops where you can always pick up essentials, A small selection but almost everything you would need. Milk, bread, beer and drinks, aspirin, tobacco etc.

In all of Sweden all public toilets, toiletts on restaurants, petrolstations and bigger shops and groserystores have an emergensybotton by the floor, in case you fall and cant get up. At normal switch level, there is also an emergensybotton and a reset botton.

14:47 That is the only bus stop that is like that, it's actually in my small town. Though every bus stop does have a very nice HD screen for showing when the next busses are arriving, even here in a small town of only 30 000 people.

In the Netherlands we have been renting art for years. I have a subscription to the library and for a small amount (2 euros) per month I can borrow 1 work of art. And of the 2 euros that I pay every month you automatically save 1 euro with which you can later buy an art object. I just checked and I've been doing this since 1989 and have now bought 43 works of art over the years. I thought this was common through libraries all over the world, but now it turns out that this is not the case and it is seen as something completely new. :-)

At McDonalds in The Netherlands you see cyclists, mostly teenagers, take the lane of the drive through at night when the restaurant is closed and only the drive through is open.

There's a retail park near Newcastle, England called the Metro Centre. It has a theme park in the central structure. There are 4 wings branching off and each corresponds to a particular shopping genre, like one is clothing, one is tech/gadgets, another is groceries and the last one is restaurants etc. The theme park had a spiral roller coaster that went all the way around the walls, a full scale pirate ship ride and many other smaller rides. Not futuristic per se, but very optimised, very logical, and above all, fun.

8:26 Here in Germany we have had these trash cans in the city for at least ten years or so. Not with Wi-Fi, I don't think, but there is always a small photovoltaic system on top that supplies the trash can with energy, just like the parking meter machines.

U can rent art in library in Czechia as well, our family has rented few paintings for few years when I was little.

You showed some vending machines. I live in southwest France and we have vending machines on the streets for local fresh vegetables and fruits. So local farmers comes about twice a day with fresh new ones to refill it or more if needed (machine tell them when they’re out of something or people can connect to the machine through internet and ask for refill if they plan ahead what they will get) so you basically has the best fresh products right down the street 7/7. They also tell you which are organic or not. I personally love it as farmers can get paid better prices because no business in between and we have easy access to fresh products.

Renting paintings is kinda strange but I guess it would enable you to change the interior decoration of your place when having guests for special events

10:50 Normally, at Shell petrol stations, you first have - diesel V-Power (Reduces your engine's fuel consumption. Removes 100% of the performance-reducing deposits and prevents future formation of these on important engine parts such as fuel injectors.) - Diesel Fuel Save(The fuel removes performance-reducing deposits on the injectors and thus helps to reduce fuel consumption and thus save costs) - and then in third place comes unleaded (BLEIFREI) in this picture here

The 24/7 store there are alarms before you reach the door and if you walk thru without paying the doors locks and the alarm will alert the police.

11:54 Here in the Netherlands people also rent art. You can change scenery in your house by changing it from time to time or discover what you like. Its also way cheaper to just rent something unique than to pay full price. With some pieces its even possible to purchase it and use the monthly fee for the payments

In France digital price tags have been the norm in large supermarkets chains for the past 6/8 years at least. Usually LCD but e-ink ones also appears here and there. This list is cool but it's a bit cheaty to have one unique thing that may as well exist in the US being featured here. But still nice ideas and concepts. Something you may or may not have are pizza distributors, they deliver either to cook or cooked pizzas (as in, the machine cook them and serves it hot) what makes them stand out, at least the ones that are nearby me, is that they are refilled by local pizzerias daily, so pizzas are fresh and "good" as opposed to being generic frozen products.

In Kiel / North Germany (my hometown), you can also rent Art in the public library.

On number 4, though the machine is a new thing to me, I know that our foodbanks (in The Netherlands) also funcion as "menstruation" banks so to speak. As seemingly in our wealthy country, there are people who are poor enough not to always be able to buy stuff like that. And though as a male it is not something one thinks much about, however knowing how important education is, I do donate to that. As I think it is not good for girls to miss school, due to lack of hygiene products that are a primary thing of living. (Keep in mind kids can be cruel, and poverty leads to cruel behaviour to such kids. Missing school due to lack of such products, can lead to low selfesteem, being bullied and the like. So I strongly believe in donating to such cause.) 15, didgital pricemarkers are common place in The Netherlands, not just in supermarkets. It seems to be easier to use as paper one, and it can even read "out of stock" if a product can not be found.

In the Netherlands there is rental art as well. Why? so you can have a new piece on your wall whenever you want. Some people like to switch what they have and buying is not an option with art due to it being way overpriced. In Utrecht the Netherlands, the bus stops have vegetation/gardens on their roof In the Netherlands in general, unless you rent from the big bike share companies or national railways, all rented bikes at bikeshops look like those of the locals. and those of bikeshare companies and national railways are used by the locals themselves. Except maybe for Amsterdam, you only stick out as a tourist because you wear a helmet on your bike, often while in a group.

That finish bus stop looks cool. Here in Bavaria you're lucky if you even have a roof over your head. I've never seen a McWalk but the Vending machines pop up more and more. Plenty of farmers/ranchers have one to sell their products directly instead of depending on selling it in a local grocery store. Near my gf's place, there's a ranch where you can rent the bottles for the milk they're selling. Instead of just buying the milk in a glass bottle all the time, customers just clean it at home and refill it with milk whenever they need it. And if they don't need the bottle anymore, they can return it to the vending machine and get their money (Pfand) back.

The digital price markers are just about in every supermarket in Norway. Only a few tiny stores still use paper price markers.

Unwanted green stuff from vegetables. Almost every supermakret I know has it too, at least the non-Discounters like Edeka, Rewe and so on. Customers who wants to leave the leaves from their Kohlrabi, cauliflower and so on can leave it there in a box and other customers can take it. Some might not allow to take it but give it to a local animal shelter.

9:44 Here in Sweden it's becoming more and more common to get your receipt in your mobile phone. There are several different services for this and in some cases it's just a PDF that you can zoom to your preferred size.

Funny that the article mentions that some stores in Singapore have electronic price tags, and then goes on to mention a 24 hor store in Norway. The 24 hour store is mostly a gimmick/ test, but almost all stores, from groceries to hardware stores use electronic price tags in Norway 😂.

I live 3 minutes walking from the bus stop at 14:34, and yes, very few are like that. It has been there since 2015, and only once been vandalized.

We have that packed train indicator thing in some trains in the UK. But our trains are so widely varying in how old or new they are though. Like we only recently stopped using makeshift bus trains we called Pacers.

Over here in Finland there are 3d-printers in library and you can use them too

The rent-art thing is available in the Netherlands for like 40 yrs already, just not at a library but in art-shops...

Bulgarian here. When I was in university, I used to check out paintings from the library to deco my apartment until I managed to buy own. Downside was that art had a 3-month check out period and one couldn't check out paintings for more than 3 months

In Germany you can rent art, too. An acquaintance of mine uses that service frequently to place pictures and sculptures in their living room and also their meeting room at their club when they have guests

Most new playgrounds in Poland have inground trampolines. A lot of bigger cities here will have Żabka Nano (Żabka is a Seven Eleven type of store) mostly around office parks and high population areas - no employees or even cash registers - just an app that automatically charges your card immidiatly after you leave the store.

that cord (13:00) is STANDARD for all handicapped public bathrooms, and in all hospitals in the Netherlands.

The trampolines have been in my park for years. The same with urinals, some have flies to hit, or other games helping men in targeting 🙂

The digital price tags have a second purpose. Just imagine prices for goods going up and down throughout the day like gas prices.