January 26, 2011
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If you have a tendency to miss your ‘super car’ aboard your luxury yacht, you may like to consider taking your car with you. The Stand Craft 166 superyacht comes equipped with its very own mega luxury sports car, snugly tucked inside the boat’s apt.
Intrigued? You should be, as the Stand Craft 166’s supplementary super car, which will wield a 620-horsepower V8 and can reach a top speed of 189 mph, hidden inside a garage, is not the only luxury feature, which makes this height of sophistication vessel stand out from other magnificent kings of the sea.
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January 25, 2011
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Hilton Hotels & Resorts have unveiled a stunning ‘floating’ hotel in Pattaya Thailand for cosmopolitan visitors to the resort.
The hotel is named Hilton Pattaya and promises to offer a new kind of beachfront experience to the heart of the popular beach resort of Pattaya, which was once a sleepy fishing village. The Hilton Pattaya rises above the new “Central Festival at Pattaya Beach” complex – Southeast Asia’s largest beachfront shopping and entertainment facility. It has over 200 shops and restaurants, a 10 screen cinema and a 16 lane bowling alley, which guests will have direct access to.
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January 24, 2011
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The Carbon Design Group has managed to manipulate the somewhat dull image of the domino, and pull it into the 21st Century with this innovative approach to keeping track of the time. This prototype of a wall clock consists of 3 large domino bricks with circles that flip from black to white when the time changes. The 12 dots on each domino create an easy and decorative way to tell the time.
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January 22, 2011
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The controversy caused by the Morten Traavik Skin-Coloured Machine Gun being designed for the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum has sparked a debate over the ‘tastefulness’ of phallic art.
The controversial machine gun comprises of as many sexual organs as one could care to image, including buttocks, nipples and a penis-shaped barrel. Although the conservative Norwegians obviously cannot understand the ‘artistic qualities’ of such work, as the museum would not permit the Russian president to see Morten Traaviks’ satirical machine gun, when he recently made a visit to the museum.
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January 21, 2011
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With a name like Dagger GT, one expects this car to be more than a little special and with only five being made in 2011, carrying a $450,000 price tag and reaching record breaking speeds of 505km/h, one’s initial suspicions are most definitely proved correct.
TranStar Racing’s latest supercar is closely framed on drag racing technology, in which a normally steel chassis has been replaced by an aluminium one, which makes the car lighter and consequently faster. Although this car’s immense speed capacity is mainly due to it being powered by a 9.4-litre twin turbo, which produces either 2000bhp or 2500bhp.
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