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    Robot Buses Are Coming To America, To Pave The Way For Driverless Cars

    Self-driving buses are coming to America. The Bishop Ranch business park in San Ramon, California will be the first place in the U.S. to use French robo-buses to ferry passengers around. Perhaps the best place for autonomous vehicles to start ...
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    Hotel ‘greenwashing’ dirties eco-friendly reputation

    PULLMAN, Wash. – Hotels across the globe are increasingly encouraging guests to embrace green practices. Yet while guests think they are supporting the environment by shutting off lights and reusing towels, they may in fact be victims of “greenwashing,” a ...
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    Personalized hotel room bookings

    The ‘Hotel Schani’ in Vienna, Austria, is now offering a service that allows guests to book personalized hotel rooms. The advent of new technology has allowed guests to customize many aspects of their vacation. This latest service provides a new ...
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    Portable floating shelter can easily be towed with a bicycle

    Based out of London, Durnin designed this tiny wooden water shelter after observing the underused water canals present in his city. The ‘Waterbed’ is made from a combination of plywood, canvas, epoxy and aluminium and can easily be towed from ...
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    Why should your self-driving car look like a car?

    The Google Car looks like a VW bug post-castration. The Tesla is a ride for the rich and boring. Both vehicles feature AI that can take the wheel for you—and yet, both cars are still, notably, cars with four wheels, ...
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    Lightweight composite Floatility electric scooter eats up that last mile

    Aiming to keep urban commuters light off their feet, Hamburg/Singapore-based Floatility is developing an electric scooter made from a series of light, sturdy composites supplied by the material masters at BASF. The startup aims to offer urban networks of e-floaters ...
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    Skylodge – Is Probably One Of The Most Terrifying Hotels You Have Ever Seen

    Peru’s Sacred Valley offers some of the most astonishing views in the world. The Natura Vive Skylodge is made up of three transparent capsules hanging from a cliff in Peru’s Sacred Valley. Brave travellers can spend the night dangling precariously, ...
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    The sad, sick life of the business traveller

    MANY of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous as it seems. Finally, there could be proof to back this up. Researchers at the University of Surrey, in ...