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Bornrich: Luxury air travel has suffered a crisis in the economic downturn, but the business-class passengers are still flying on cloud nine. The luxury airlines too are doing everything to make it even better for their first-class passengers. Singapore Airlines, well-known for its first class cabin with the largest seats in the sky, has now introduced a deluxe cabin, known as the Singapore Suite. The cabin is more lavish, and more exclusive, than first class on all Singapore Airline A380 aircraft, the worlds largest passenger plane. The suites feature a standalone bed; not one converted from a seat, a lavish armchair hand-stitched by master Italian craftsmen Poltrona Frau, a full length wardrobe, a 23-inch TV monitor and a selection of more than 700 music CDs and 120 movies, gourmet dining, with travelers allowed to choose from Don Perignon or Krug champagne. For couples, a double bed can be configured.

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Springwise: Three soups are typically on the menu in any given week at SoupCycle. Consumers who live or work in the Portland, Ore., company’s delivery area begin by checking out the selections for the following week and placing their order by midnight on Friday; rustic bread, salad and dressing are also available. With a list of subscribers in hand, SoupCycle then buys the necessary produce from local farmers. On Monday it cooks up those ingredients into delectable soup, and then on Tuesdays it begins its weekly deliveries, with a different delivery day for each area. Pricing ranges from USD 18 for a quart of soup plus bread and salad, which will serve one or two people, to USD 45 for quantities that can serve six; items can also be ordered a la carte. A USD 3 delivery charge applies for orders under USD 18; otherwise, delivery is free. Each of SoupCycle’s trailers can carry some 40 soup containers, 40 bread loaves and 20 salads at once, it says.

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The New Republic is today running my review of Tom Bissell’s latest book, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. It begins: Tom Bissell is a Renaissance Man for our out-of-joint time. In addition to being a versatile and exuberant writer, a restless if ennui-ridden globetrotter, and a dedicated chewer of tobacco and smoker of pot, he is a prodigiously gifted slayer of zombies and other digitized demons … Read on….

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CNET: Last year, we told you about billboards in development that could tell male faces from female faces and display ads accordingly. Well, such a system is now up and scanning visages in subway stations around Tokyo.
A consortium of 11 railway companies has launched a one-year pilot project to test the signs, setting up 27 of the “Minority Report”-style displays in commuter stations around the Japanese prefecture. But while billboards in that sci-fi flick (see the video below) could recognize people by name and shout out purchasing suggestions, the Japanese signs employ cameras and face recognition software to determine just the gender and age of passersby.

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OrgaSizer is an online service that helps you organize all your sizes & preferences in one place and share them with your friends. You can choose what to share and who to share it with (it’s not publicly shared). Create wishlists and get reminded about important dates. Never again forget important stuff, never again get or give the wrong present by using OrgaSizer to access your own sizes and preferences and those of your friends and family from anywhere in the world.

I had the pleasure last month of talking about The Shallows with Christopher Lydon, a superb interviewer, in his offices near Charles Street in Boston. Lydon has a very different view of the Web than I do, which, combined with his sympathetic reading of the book, made for, I think, a particularly good conversation. You can listen to it, via Lydon’s Brown University-based Radio Open Source program, here….

TrendWatching.com: GiveMeTap lets consumers in the UK refill their water bottles for free at participating cafs. Beginning in Manchester, GiveMeTap has signed up numerous restaurants and cafs willing to supply free access to clean tap water; said providers can be located via PC or smartphone using GiveMeTap’s mapping service. In order to partake, consumers need to be carrying one of GiveMeTap’s branded aluminium bottles, which are priced at GBP 7. GiveMeTap uses 70 percent of the profits from those sales to fund independent water projects in regions where they’re most needed.

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