AETHAER, whose strapline is ‘breathe clean, live refreshed’, has caused a stir across the globe for the sale of its flagship product: bottled air. The company, headed up by 27 year old businessman Leo De Watts, sells jars of air ‘farmed’ from the British countryside. The AETHAER jars contain fresh air from locations across the UK including Somerset, Dorset, Wales and Wiltshire and will set you back a hefty £80....
The World Bank recently published its Global Infrastructure Outlook, which compares seven sectors across 50 countries, and the results are extremely interesting. The aim is to use the data to forecast what infrastructure investment will be needed around the world by 2040, as well as putting a number on the cap between what is currently being spent and what will have to be spent by that time....
Writing in The Guardian this week, Cristobal Young, the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich, has countered the often made claim of conservatives that higher taxes would mean that the rich would flee....
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is by far the largest in the world. Valued at US$1tr, any move it makes tend to have a significant impact on whatever industry is in its path. This week, Norway has been advised by its central bank that it should consider divesting from oil and gas....
It was an unexpected arrival and one that nobody was expected but, then, Elon Musk hasn’t exactly cultivated a reputation for doing things the traditional way....
Bloomberg’s brand new European Headquarters in the City of London has been named the most sustainable office in the world, receiving the highest score ever achieved by any large development during design stage....
An investment firm headed up by Bill Gates, the former head of Microsoft and a multi-billionaire, has invested US$80m into a proposed ‘smart city’ in Arizona, USA. The community, to be known as Belmont, “will create a forward-thinking community...
Robotic design company Boston Dynamics, which was sold back in June by Google's parent company Alphabet Inc to Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank Group Corp, has just released a teaser video for its latest project, the SpotMini....
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley moguls have more than one thing in common at least. Apart from being laughably rich and powerful, more than a few of them think that governments around the world should look into trialling a Universal Basic Income for their citizens.
With over four million visitors each week, London’s Oxford Street is one of the busiest streets in the UK. However new plans look to revitalise the street by improving congestion, air pollution and accessibility – namely by making it traffic-free....
The 15th UN climate conference met in Copenhagen in 2009 and started to get serious about helping the developing world deal with climate change. The agreement made at the conference stated that developing countries would spend US$100bn a year by 2020 tackling climate change around the world....
China's internet shopping websites have been cautioned by Chinese authorities in an attempt to reduce the number of fabricated promotional advertisements aimed at those looking to make a splash on Singles Day.
Destroyed by a fire in 2010 the historic Hastings Pier has been bought back to its full glory, rounded off by winning the accolade of the 2017 RIBA Stirling prize for the best building in the UK....
Facebook has come a long way from its early days as a platform for those in higher education. As of 2017 the social network has over 2 billion active users, an amazing figure considering the amount of completion currently vying for your attention....
Iraq is not a country which often gets mentioned in architecture dispatches for obvious reasons. The US-led invasion in 2003 began a decade and a half of devastation in the country which only seems to be coming to some sort of conclusion now....
Online retailer, Amazon is constantly looking for innovative ways to drive up sales and entice consumers by integrating the latest technology into its services. In the last year, the firm has unveiled several new concepts which include flying drones over homes to deliver parcels to backyards and monitoring homes to see what products people need in order to tailor their marketing strategies....
Twitter has recently announced new plans to try and tackle potentially harmful online advertisements in support of the proposed Honest Ads Act. The act looks to clamp down on the way that adverts are portrayed to the masses – in particular those of a political or ‘issue-based’ nature....
Wine has experienced significant growth over the last ten years, with demand continually growing from across Asia. Yet this new crop of customers is expected to go wanting with global wine production expected to drop to levels not seen for over 50 years....
In an illuminating and somewhat disturbing thread on Twitter from Jo Maugham QC, a major study undertaken by The Treasury has been revealed and the results make for fairly grim reading....
There are more than one billion people across the world who still do not have access to electricity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The total number of people has reportedly dropped by a third since the turn of the millennium, but there are still many who are missing out on all the benefits of electrification....
