Travel
The Maharaja’s Express: Luxury Train in India
The Maharaja Express will offer an experience of royalty at its best. The journey is no less than a fairy-tale experience. The train takes you to a variety of captivating destinations of Incredible India. Offering an ecstatic tour, the train is acknowledged for its par superiority services and facilities. For 8 days this pan Indian train takes guests on a ride across the best and the most prominent destinations of the country — Taj Mahal, the Khajuraho temples, wildlife environs of Ranthambore, Fatehpur Sikri and the holy bathing Ghats of Varanasi. The cheapest rate per person per day is a whopping US$ 800 for a Deluxe cabin. The next two slabs are US$ 900 and US$ 1,400. And the Presidential Suite comes for US$ 2,500. Continue Reading
Crazy Tech
Top Weirdest Keyboards Ever
Keyboards come in many shape. Look at the best examples here! Continue Reading
Cars
The VW NILS Concept: Radical Single-Seater Electric Car
This is Volkswagen’s new Nils concept car — a radical single-seater electric car designed purposefully for the solo urban commuter. Controls are minimalistic — just some climate dials to the right and buttons on the wheel for adjusting volume, answering calls, and setting the automatic cruise control, which can maintain distance between you and the cars ahead and brake automatically should you fail to do so. The rest of the information is displayed on an LCD dash behind the wheel. Continue Reading
Culture and Arts
Get On Your Bike if You Want to Watch Film
If you like bikes and films, you just might want to make your way to England as the Free Film Festival and Electric Pedals have teamed up to provide a series of bike-powered outdoor movies. From a cemetery to abandoned movie theaters to a velodrome, the series has something for everyone — at least for those who prefer transportation by two spoked wheels. Continue Reading
Travel
Island Hideaway — The Taste of Paradise?
Having a beach length of some 3,200 meters around the Island, Island Hideaway(Maldives) is a haven of peace, tranquility and serenity. The Island is also unique in its reef formation. The reef system it sits on has a natural channel splitting it in two distinct parts, and thereby forming a natural harbour. The Island ‘s uniquely rich and dense vegetation instils a feeling of harmony and being at one with nature, 95% of the island is in its original state, untouched by the hand of man. Continue Reading
Architecture
Welcome to the World’s First Spaceport!
Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico. With about 800 people attending, the terminal building was officially named “Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space” while its two spacecraft, WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, flew overhead. The $209m spaceport will be a launch station for people and payloads on the rocket ships being developed for the company. Continue Reading
Culture and Arts
80,000 of Bamboo Sticks, It Is Enough for Furniture?
The sculptural Magistral Cabinet created by New York-based artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz continues the artist’s investigation into the boundaries between functionality and symbolism walking the fine line between art and design. No less than 80,000 of such bamboo sticks were used to cover the whole surface of the cabinet, a process that involved a team of 12 woodworkers working on the Magistral Cabinet for six weeks to complete it. Continue Reading
Culture and Arts
Fly to Clouds of Heaven…
Asif Khan, a young English architect, honored by MoMA and profiled in the New York Times as one of five designers to watch this year, presents “Cloud,” a machine that creates airborne volumes of soap bubbles. The foam inside rises slowly upward, deforming like a cloud to be caught in fish net stretched across the ceiling, from which a light rain begins to fall after a few hours. Continue Reading
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