Tag: The Observer
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The 40 best gadgets of 2017
From smart-speakers and virtual bikes to robot vacuums and indestructible cables, here is the year’s most covetable technology
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Loving Blue Planet? Go one better and take a real submarine trip to the deep
The new must-have accessory for cruise liners and luxury yachts is a bubble-shaped submersible
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Volvo XC60 review: ‘The safest car on the planet’
The new version of Volvo’s bestselling model ticks every conceivable box (and some you didn’t know you had)
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Frida Kahlo: feminist, selfie queen, queer icon and style muse of 2017
It’s the artist’s attitude as much as her work that inspires today’s designers (not to mention Theresa May)
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Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky?
First airlines, then spaceships. Now the Virgin boss wants to build Hyperloop One – a high-speed, pneumatic maglev railway. But engineering experts doubt that it will ever leave the station
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The eco guide to radical materials
Cotton has a disastrous foorprint, leather is destroying the Amazon, polyester threatens the ozone layer. Luckily there are some new fabrics on the way