Sweet privacy Designed for teenagers, this inflatable room ("personal mobile inflatable bag-room") and air mattress fits into a bag.

http://www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=8&item_pk=4218&p=1  ¶ 2:08 PM 0 comments

  Furnishings An "illuminated, self standing, polyethylene bathtub". I prefer the "neutral/white" to the somewhat less subtle nuclear-reactor green.



http://www.gnr8.biz/ltt.html  ¶ 11:17 PM 0 comments

  "Plastics." Not housing, but innovative nonetheless.


A biodegradable cell phone case that contains a seed that germinates once it's recycled.



http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000257021952/


A plastic that's 90% cornstarch, and which completely disperses after adding water.



http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000257021952/

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051002/kyodo/d8d072eg0.html  ¶ 10:41 PM 0 comments

  15 most expensive hotels Forbes tours the 15 most expensive hotel rooms in the world, ranging in price from $5,000 to $25,000.

So what exactly do you get when you're spending between $5,000 and $25,000 for a hotel room, which is the range of our list? Space is the most obvious. All of the rooms on the list are huge, averaging more than 5,000 square feet, and that is not counting terraces and balconies--and the occasional private cinema. The other amenity is service. Most of these hotel rooms come with a personal butler or a chauffeured Rolls-Royce at your disposal. Those that do not have a butler or assistant on hand have an implied "anything you want" rule.

http://www.forbes.com/2002/03/07/0307feat.html  ¶ 10:39 PM 0 comments