Going fully electric and autonomous can beautifully liberate the architecture of vehicles. It allows the cabin or cargo hold to be completely separate from the drivetrain, and it opens up the potential for a fully modular transporter like Panasonic’s SPACe_C, unveiled at CES. With no complex mechanical steering and transmission inputs needed to interface between the top and bottom layers, […]

Located on a sandy beach in Yangyang-gun, a county in the Gangwon-do province of South Korea, an innovative green travel escape dominates the skyline. Donning the name of Albang, which translates directly to “egg room”, remains the aptest of names for a travel experience that attempts to pioneer a new direction of travel escapes in South Korea. Designed in 2014 by South Korea’s Yoon […]

PearsonLloyd has designed a new business class cabin environment for German airline Lufthansa, which will launch alongside the new Boeing 777-9 aircraft in 2020. Aiming to provide better privacy and comfort for business class passengers, the redesigned cabins will feature larger and more ergonomic seats, positioned inside V-shaped, suite-like enclosures. The new Boeing 777-9, launching in 2020, will have a wider cabin […]

Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly says they made history when they flew the first flight without any single-use plastic. The flight — from Lisbon to Natal, Brazil — was the first of four trials that won’t use any single-use plastic on-board. Many of the items on-board that are typically plastic were substituted with a more eco-friendly alternative; plastic cutlery was […]

Even when plugged into a portable music player or playing games on a smartphone, long bus journeys can be tedious. If you ride a FlixBus on select routes to and from Las Vegas, you could find yourself being offered a VR headset, to transport you to other worlds while the driver takes you where you need to go. FlixBus has […]

Hyundai has committed to becoming the world’s first auto manufacturer to ship cars that open and start without any keys or smartphones whatsoever. The 2019 Santa Fe SUV will use fingerprint sensors for its door locks and ignition. The fingerprint sensors will sit in the car’s door handles and in the start button on the dash. Touching either will switch […]

New York-based architectural firm Yuji Yamazaki Architecture (YYA) is behind the design of the Kudadoo Maldives Private Island that opened recently in Lhaviani Atoll, Maldives. With a strong focus on sustainability, this exclusive holiday destination is distinguished by its impressive photovoltaic roof. In creating the plans for the island resort, YYA wanted to integrate the solar panels into the island’s […]

A new service offered by Ibis hotels in Switzerland appears to suggest that for some Instagrammers, the pressure to post amazing images on the social media site may be so huge that it’s ruining their vacations. To ease the strain, the hotel chain is now offering help in the form of a “social media sitter.” It means handing the keys […]

When we talk about preserving the environment, one of the most common lines of conversation focuses on electric vehicles. If the entire world transitioned to all-electric transportation, at least on land, we could dramatically reduce the amount of pollution pumped into our atmosphere. People would breathe better, and animals would live better. Heavily polluted cities like Hong Kong and Los […]

There’s still some conjecture about exactly who got to the North pole first, but you can have a say in who goes there next. Swedish company OceanSky is selling a 30-hour travel package taking folk for a luxury picnic lunch at magnetic North, in the world’s largest aircraft, the Airlander 10. The trip starts out in Svalbard, Norway, and you’ll […]