A week’s walking in the Alps of Italy and Switzerland doesn’t have to mean nights in basic, and rather grim, refuges. Descend into the valleys each evening and you can dine and sleep well in pretty boutique hotels. At least that was the plan …
World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2012: Spanish chef Elena Arzak named World’s Best Female Chef Spanish chef Elena Arzak wins the Veuve Clicquot World’s Best Female Chef award at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2012, that takes place April 30 in London. The Veuve Clicquot World’s Best Female Chef award celebrates the work of an … Read more
New York Auto Show’s New Car Arrivals The 2012 New York International Automobile Show is packed with nearly 1,000 brand new vehicles. So, car-lovers with a taste for the absolute latest in technology and innovation are in for a treat April 6 – 15 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Today’s new cars and trucks … Read more
Floating Cinema by Ole Scheeren. Constructed in the most unlikely of places: right on top of the water Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren constructed an outdoor temporary floating cinema designed to be the stage for the final night of the “Film on the Rocks Yao Noi” new film festival in Thailand (9th- 12th March 2012). … Read more
The wingspan of an Airbus A340: 63.40 m; The weight of a family car: 1600 kg; The power of a scooter: four 10 HP engines. Visionary thinking… Solar Impulse plane is moving forward. Swiss pilot André Borschberg completed a 72-hour non-stop flight — but in a simulator for the new Solar Impulse aircraft planned for … Read more
Swiss aim to launch first space cleaner The Swiss Space Centre at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), a top science university, announced the launch of CleanSpace as the first installment of a family of satellites designed to clear up space debris. According to EPFL, “16,000 objects larger than 10 centimetres in diameter and … Read more