Category Archives: Other Stuff
Planning a posh holiday? Now leave all the, what to do and where to go to the people who know it best. The Chic city guide publishers have launched a luxury box set with personalised Luxe City Guides. We continue to bring you unique experiences: from the Art of being British to a Moët slumber party for the ladies or an off-road experience when staying at the Four Seasons. If you’re heading to Singapore after Sep 18, don’t miss Louis Vuitton’s new LV-island and if Thailand is on your mind, we highly recommend the dual-deal with the Ritz-Carlton Reserve Krabi & Tower Club at lebua – offering the best of Thai experiences. Space offerings continue to flourish, the latest being an air balloon offering flights to space in 2013. Fashion never takes a back-seat at the Rich Traveller, this week we have flip-out sunglasses from Ray-Ban.
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A short while ago, the Canadian beef industry was struck with the deadly mad cow disease, contaminating meat due to which, beef parts were thrown away and ended up in landfills by the ton. David Bressler, an associate professor with the institution’s Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science however is busy working on creating plastics from these waste parts of beef to keep them out of landfills. The process Bressler has been working on uses proteins from cow parts that are broken down under high temperatures and made to re-link with other molecules to create plastic!
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Schools are the proving grounds for human beings. We start off at school, and learn essentially everything that we use in our adult lives, in school itself. And what better place could there be, to shed some green on the minds of the young, than school! The Sierra Club took the initiative recently, to draw up a list of the greenest schools around, that they hope will help inspire and have those not on the list, strive hard to make it there too! The top 20 list tops off with the University of Washington, followed by the Green Mountain College and the University of California, San Diego.
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Cruise lovers have much to rejoice as Celebrity Cruises unveiled their newest vessel, the Celebrity Silhouette this week. From the high waters to a naked experience, guests will be transported to nature at its best as the Naked Retreat gets set to open its new Shanghai luxury resort. We all love our pampering and ensuring guests are well pampered, the Desroches Island, an exclusive private island resort in the Seychelles has unveiled their new ‘Escape’ spa offering Herbology treatments. Likewise, the Mandarin Oriental Singapore has also announced their new holistic ‘Spa at Mandarin Oriental’.
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Tesco finally realized, that the biodegradable bags the chain had hooked up to recently are potentially more life-threatening to the environment than any of us would imagine! Going bright red in the face, the store chain has cut-off giving out these biodegradable bags, given that they ideally take about 20 to 35 months to decompose, or so thought Tesco. Take those months and do the math, with Tesco giving out more than two billion of these bags a year, and we’re pretty sure you’re going to fall out of your chair too, just the way did, and Tesco did!
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This week we can’t stop drooling over the new $10,000 shopping package at the Fairmont Chicago. And what better way to go shopping than with the Ultratravel Currency Card, offering a range of benefits for the jet-setters. Bespoke experiences continue to be a trend with hotels offering a wide range of packages from special pet-service at the Ritz-Carlton, LA to dual-island getaways from Anantara Resorts, Blue mountain trails with the Wolgan Valley Resort, divorce packages for the newly divorcees at the Puerto Vallarta, Casa Velas and special Grand Prix packages with Etihad Airways , with the racing season not too far away. Traveling can never go out of style especially when carrying around a Paul Smith & Leica camera. We also get a peek into Korean Air’s new A380 superjumbo, while Las Vegas gets ready to be home to the world’s largest Ferris wheel.
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LED lighting for your home gets greener than it already is, with Sharp’s new square ceiling lights. Available in three models, small, medium and large, depending on your room size, these lights are 1.6 times more energy efficient than conventional LED lights. Using direct illumination and high-efficiency LEDs used in LCD technology, the small-sized model sports a luminous efficiency of 81.3 lumens per watt, making it top the LED industry! And that’s not all. These lights can also have their brightness and color tone adjusted with 10 different steps, offering about a 103 different variations in brightness and color.
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If you’re beloved pooch has been sneaking out into your neighbors front yard all this while to answer nature’s calls, we’ve got you a better and more environment-friendly way to get rid of your dog’s poop. Poop bags for dogs aren’t new, though this one’s different, here’s how. Essentially a biodegradable poop pouch for your pooch, this one dissolves in water, disintegrating into water and carbon dioxide when submerged. This means you can now quickly dispose off you four-legged friend’s produce.
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Britain got a whole new pop-up cinema and one that’s inspired by a load of garbage. Called Films on Fridges, the project is the brainchild of 25-year-old American Lindsey Scannapieco, who got the idea from London’s famous Fridge Mountain. Essentially an art installation, the project is an outdoor venture with fridges playing the lead, second lead and crowd role – the screen is surrounded by fridges, the bar is made of fridge parts, and fridge doors are used in seating arrangements.
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Finding your way out or into a room during blackouts can get tricky, especially if you aren’t too used to carrying a little torch around. Most of us tend to use those feeble backlights of our mobile phones at times like these too, and if the phone sports a flash, that does double up as a torch. Designers Kun-hee Kim, Kei Shimizu & Nguyen-vu Dang however have come up with a unique design called the LEDoorHandle that seems to be an answer to blackout woes. This one basically works as an illuminated door handle that sports sensors, illuminating when the lights go out. And to power up, these handles generate energy from the twisting motion of the door knob.
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