Yves de Contades

Good news for electric car owners in New York City, you will soon be able to charge your vehicle on the go.
Called ‘Hevo Power’, it is a wireless charging station that will be installed into manholes around NYC—charging your car when you park over them.
It was reported that the charging station can be “bolted to the street or embedded in the pavement”—transmitting energy through a receiver that will be connected to the car’s battery.
There is even a smartphone app that will notify the driver of the charge amount and help drivers line their vehicles up on the charger.

 
Can you wait two and a half hours for a beer? Well, maybe if you are making it yourself. Yes, now you can make a decent beer in under three hours with this new American made machine.
Two brothers Bill and Jim Mitchell and Avi Geiger in Washington have invented surely the most indispensable kitchen appliance of all time, the elaborately named PicoBrew Zymatic™, "The First Fully Automatic All-Grain Beer Brewing Appliance”.

The RAC of Australia have come up with a unique approach to tackle road deaths due to inattention. The Attention Powered Car. This car requires you to wear a headset that monitors your brain activity, blink rate, gaze rate and eye movement, effectively measuring if you are paying attention or not.
If the driver’s brain activity is low the car will slow down until the driver starts to pay attention again.

Yves de Contades hopped over to Denmark to take a look at the bespoke luxury designer bikes by Lauge Jensen.
A quick flight from London City Airport took me to Billund, Denmark, the home of Lego. Legoland was shut that day, however I was here to look at some beautifully engineered, chrome and gold motorbikes rather than the bestselling interlocking plastic bricks and their theme park.

With deadlock in Washington and default date looming on the 17th there seems to be a general feeling that when the time comes one party will blink and the problem will go away, after all America will never default?

 
International eXcellence attended the Panerai British Classic Week's sailing in Cowes this summer.
 
This event truly deserves our eXcellence award. It is superbly well organised in a wonderful setting. The Classic yachts are stunning works of art that glide over the water, evocative of a bygone age of yacht design and sailing skills.
 

 
William Shakespeare called England “this other Eden...this precious stone set in the silver sea”. It is certainly a country in which travelling can be every bit as enjoyable as arriving.

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Yves de Contades jetted off to Morocco to luxuriate in the finest hotels, spas and restaurants in Casablanca and Rabat.

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