Category: SHELTER
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The most expensive luxury hotels in the USA
The USA’s most expensive hotel is located in Montana. That determination is according to a recent survey from Luxury-Hotels.com that compared the 2014 summer rates of all luxury hotels located in the United States. Specifically, the rate for the most affordable double room in each luxury hotel was established for the Memorial Day to Labor…
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Prototype of world’s first microchip goes up for auction at $1,000,000
Designed by Jack Kilby and built by Tom Yeargan, the chip is made not from silicon, but germanium
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Signature Touch high-performance smartphone. A $11,300 Vertu with Hasselblad-certified camera
English luxury mobile phone manufacturer Vertu aims to cement its position as leader of the luxury mobile category with the $11,300 Vertu Signature Touch high-performance smartphone model which comes with Hasselblad-certified camera. Vertu Signature Touch is sound tuned in collaboration with B&O and features Dolby Digital Plus virtual surround sound and Hasselblad certified imaging, as…
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Top milliners’ tips to help you get a head-start on the season.
It’s officially the season of the hat. Top milliners Philip Treacy, Vivien Sheriff and Jane Taylor gave Harrods their top tips for a hat guide of the season. “Hats like people come in all shapes and sizes and a little awareness of your face shape and size will help you find the hat to…
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Vertical Veg man: six of the best edible flowers
Continuing our series about growing food on balconies, patios and window sills, the VV man gets a taste for edible floralsHow losing out on an allotment made me get creative about growing veg
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The strange science behind design: materials from unusual sources
From clothing made from crab compounds to recycled blue jeans worked into your Ford Fusion, innovation in textile manufacture and design is getting weirder – and more sustainable