Clothes just haven’t evolved fast enough to cope with the stuff we have to carry these days. Those large, technologically oriented gentlemen you sometimes see in fishing vests are trying to solve that problem. But they don’t look cool. There must be a stylish way to have many pockets – tactical practicality – without looking like you’re pretending to be an assassin.

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These two thoughts seized me because I’d found it very hard, all evening, not to spend the whole time wondering where he’d [Gibson] got his jacket with the cool pen pockets on the forearm. And made me think that wheras his novels used to be manuals for building the future they’re now very stylish, extended product catalogues. Like Noir LL Bean. (Though that felt wrong – they’re much better than that.)

Yesterday marked yet another strange turn in my ever increasingly spikey life. The Way of the TechGonzo is to experience as many aspects of something as possible, rather than just reporting as an Observer. Accordingly, not only have I been writing about fashion here and blogging it on StylishGent.. yesterday I took centre stage. Returning to something I […]

Thomasons – the scars left on buildings by progress

Thanks to Bruce Sterling’s twitterfeed we now a have a word for those things we see around us on a daily basis, but couldn’t concisely describe.

Thomasons: Stairs leading to nowhere….

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Space Station Reboost (via ReelNASA)

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The true size of Africa

Our planned module inside will not remind you of the ISS. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes,“ he told RIA Novosti.

The hotel would be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space, Mr Kostenko said.

It would follow the same orbit as the International Space Station.

The first module would have four cabins, designed for up to seven passengers, who would be packed into a space of 20 cubic metres (706 cubic feet).

BBC News – ‘Space hotel’ plan unveiled in Russia

This and Virgin Galactic. There are over 1000 billionaires now, happy to blow a few lazy million on a more ‘economic’ trip to space. Especially if it’s stylish.. and out of this world!