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  • Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse

    Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse

    The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse has just set a world speed record for open top production car at the Volkswagen testing grounds in Ehra-Lessein.  Hopefully, this will put to rest some of the controversy started by Hennessey when they asserted that the Hennessey Venom GT was the fastest production car in the world by pointing out the Bugatti did not have a speed limiter.  This technicality in turn caused Guinness to strip Bugatti of the title of world’s fastest production car which they had held since 2010.

    As the Bugatti site states:

    It is now official: the world’s fastest roadster is a Bugatti. Following the spectacular record-breaking drive of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport in 2010, during which the coupé achieved a top speed of 431.072 km/h, witnessed and officially confirmed by the renowned independent German organisation for Technical Inspection and Certification TÜV, an impressive speed that remains unparalleled to this day, Bugatti has added yet another milestone. The open top version of the 1,200 PS sports car, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, now also officially holds the world record. In the presence of TÜV, the open-top super car reached a maximum speed of 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph) at the Volkswagen Group’s proving grounds in Ehra-Lessien, making it the fastest open-top production sports car in the world

    It looks like the gauntlet has been thrown down, so for us sports cars enthusiasts, it looks like 2013 will be a great year !

    Check out this great video on the Bugatti from the Wall Street Journal here :

  • Thick As A Brick Installation – Milan

    Thick As A Brick Installation – Milan

    Curated by Maria Christina Didero, the Thick As A Brick Installation – Milan at Giò Marconi  shows a collection of over 100 Mousse Publications within brick structures designed by Kuehn Malvezzi and fabricated by Petersen Tegel Brickworks.

    As  the Mousse Magazine site states:

    Thick As A Brick goes back to simple, manual practices and ancestral materials – such as the brick used here as a narrative device – and to ancient, basic ideas in order to rediscover their potential: projected into the future, such renewed values serve as a groundwork to literally build a new encyclopedia of balance, strength, and positivity. In this project, these basic materials are replaced by books, iconic tools for spreading knowledge down through the centuries. The bricks produced by the Danish company Petersen serve as the base from which culture symbolically evolves, and the modular pieces in the show, conceived by the Kuehn Malvezzi architectural studio, open a door to the hope of continued growth. The link between bricks and the books presented here by Mousse – a publisher at the cutting edge of the international scene – reinforce this idea of a solidity built on knowledge, a concept embodied by material nature of the object-book itself.

    If you are in Milan, check out this installation it before it closes !

    GIÒ MARCONI, Milan

    April 9 – April 14, 2013

    Opening: Thursday April 11, 6:30–9:30 pm

    More pics after the jump… (more…)

  • 2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award Winners

    2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award Winners

    Design Miami/Basel and W Hotels have announced the winners of the 2013 W Hotel Designers of the Future Award.  This award recognizes emerging designers and studios that are pioneering the field of design.

    The 2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners are: Seung-Yong Song from Korea , Canadian-American Jon Stam  and Bethan Laura Wood from the U.K. !

    These winners were selected by an international jury that included Jan Boelen of the Design Academy Eindhoven and Z33; Tony Chambers of Wallpaper* Magazine; Aric Chen of M+ Museum Hong Kong; Alexis Georgacopoulos of Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL); Marianne Goebl of Design Miami/; Benjamin Loyauté, author, curator and journalist; and Mike Tiedy of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, parent company of W Hotels Worldwide.

    For 2013, the theme of “Making Connections” challenged aspirants to go on-site to a specific new or renovating W Hotel to create a space that captured the vibrant ambiance of the location and synced it with the experience of the international visitor whether for business or pleasure.

    Congrats to this year’s winners !

    You can read more about Design Miami/ and the W Hotels after the jump…

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  • 40 Years of Cell Phones

    40 Years of Cell Phones

    This year marks the 40 years of cell phones! I hate to admit it, but I do have a few old Nokia phones lurking around my house.

    Check out this cool video from the Wall Street Journal on “A Short History of the Cell Phone on its 40th Birthday”:

  • The #Coolness: Girls Who Code

    While you would think that the technology industry would be more fair and less prone than other industries to gender issues, the truth is that it is not.  A good illustration of this is the firing last month of a female developer after she confronted a group of men making sexist comments at a programming conference. In this case, the maxim “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” was way over-applied.

    Thankfully, the gender gap is being closed by the good works of fabulous organizations like Girls Who Code, founded by Reshma Saujani.  Their mission statement says it all: “Girls Who Code works to educate, inspire, and equip young women with the skills and resources to pursue academic and career opportunities in computing fields.”

    Girls Who Code has just started taking applications for their 2013 Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program in San Francisco,  San Jose, Davis, Detroit and New York City.  I wish there had been programs like this when I was growing up.

    Here is a great video on this amazing organization via Fast Company:

    You can listen here to NPR’s The Takeaway‘s piece done on “Closing the Gender Gap in Tech” that highlights the Girls Who Code organization here:

  • Meet University at Albany New President Robert J. Jones

    Meet University at Albany New President Robert J. Jones

    University at Albany’s New President, Robert J. Jones will be here in South Florida on Tuesday, March 19th, at Timpano Las Olas Blvd from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm.

    Register here or call (800)836-2586.

     

  • The #Coolness: GolfRedefined.com

    The #Coolness: GolfRedefined.com

    Who: GolfRedefined.com

    Where: Online

    What they do:

    GolfRedefined.com is the first online site to give golfers the opportunity to select, test and swap the very best drivers on the market.

    For an affordable monthly membership fee, golfers can order the hottest drivers as soon as they hit the market.

    All top brands are offered and almost every manufacturer’s driver is included in the product line-up.

    Why are they so cool? 

    • “Netflix for Golf” – Doing for Golf what Netflix did with DVD’s
    • Flexibility – try any driver you want.  Keep it as long as you want.  Swap whenever you want
    • Simplicity – Choose from the website and it is shipped to you.  When you are ready to try another just ship it back for free
    • Value – Choice and flexibility for less than the price of owning a driver

    Details:

    Website: GolfRedefined.com

    Twitter: @Golf_Redefined

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GolfRedefined?fref=ts

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