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The Str an d Cr aft
Super Yacht with a
Super Car
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t’s not beyond reason that when you
travel around the world at no expense in
your super yacht, that you may want to
take your car with you.
And if you’re fortunate enough to have a
super yacht, then no doubt you have a super
car also.
Hence the conceptual Strand-Craft-166, a
somewhat stealth-like looking craft that is
certainly super in every sense of the word,
and unsurprisingly features a floating “garage” in the aft.
The yacht would certainly not look out of
place in a James Bond movie. There is a
retractable fly-bridge, a hidden spa that
features a built-in bar, and the living area
boasts five double ensuite staterooms
equipped with 52-inch Bang & Olufsen televisions, mood lighting and there’s even the
option of the upholstery being crafted from
bullet-proof Japanese Samurai tread leather.
With such wealth prevalent, a simple life vest
certainly would not be one’s sole reliance on
safety!
Ralph Lauren's Polo Tech shirt
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The fashion brand embraces cutting-edge technology with its new polo shirt,
developed to combine sporting prowess with style.
he traditional, collegiate
connotations of Ralph
Lauren Polo preppy attire, gentlemanly sporting
pursuits at Ivy League institutions
and polite rounds of tennis in the
Hamptons are set for a serious
injection of 21st century tech wizardry thanks to new venture. The
brand’s iconic polo shirt a menswear staple from Connecticut to
Clapham gets a bold reworking to
coincide with the US Open tennis
championships at Flushing, New
York. As the official outfitter of the
event, the brand have worked with
Canada-based tech innovation
company OMsignal to develop
the "Polo Tech shirt", a reinvention
of the standard style with some
seriously impressive digital clout
behind it.
And what digital deftness it is.
Each second-skin shirt emblazoned with a yellow polo logo
comes in black nylon that, beneath
its layers, is working furiously to
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chart the athleticism of the wearer.
The specially developed compression fabric is designed to stimulate
blood flow and aid muscle recover, while underneath conductive threads are woven into the
material. Making contact with the
skin, they then gather biometric
information, charting heart rate,
energy level, breathing rate and
intensity. A lightweight device (or
"module") attached to the rib cage
area of the shirt will relay real
time information to a Bluetooth
connected iPhone: this is cyborg
style for a new era. While no players will wear it during the actual
tournament, the shirt will be outfitted on No.1 singles player Marcos
Giron during practice, and on a
select number of ball boys, which
means real time information on
how they’re faring physically will
be available throughout. Your
polo shirt keeping track of you? It's
the next stage of pioneering sartorial science.
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