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The Karma Revero: A Car That’s Not for Everybody | LUNO

luno — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:43:00 +0000

The Karma Revero is a mean looking car that nobody should mess with if they aren’t serious about cars. Even on Karma’s website, the company is clear about who should buy the Revero: “We are not for everybody, and never will be. No one needs a product like this. We exist for those who have to have one.”

Founded in 2014, Karma, headquartered in Irvine, California, is a car making startup designing luxury performance cars as good as the traditional luxury car makers. They’ve brought automobile assembly to Southern California for the first time in decades. Although the engineering is done in Troy, Michigan, Karma’s manufacturing facility is in Moreno Valley, California.

Karma is shaking up the car industry with the Revero. It’s an extended-range electric vehicle, with an aluminum frame, and a muscular look. With dual electric motors to provide plenty of torque, and 6 Piston calipers and regenerative breaking to preserve the brakes, the Revero looks imposing, but offers a smooth ride. A lithium-ion battery, with a 24 minute charge time, gives the Revero a total range of 300 miles. For Karma, what should attract people to buying a Revero is the comfort level, not its technical stats. Whereas the exterior has a strapping, menacing look, the interior’s unlacquered reclaimed wood trim, jewel detailing, leather seats, makes it smooth and diplomatic.

What makes the Revero unique, and Karma different, compared to the rest of the car industry, is one key feature and a personal touch on each car. In an industry first, the Revero has a solar roof which powers the car with an output of 200w. As it says on Karma’s site, “Leave your car at the airport for a week and drive home on the power of the sun.” Then, what differentiates Karma from other car makers is that each vehicle is slightly unique, and that uniqueness is achieved by more than just a different vehicle identification number. The badges on both the front and the back of the car are hand-painted, which Karma’s says we should, “consider it a small but symbolic statement about craftsmanship and individuality.”

Solar Roof

The Revero comes in eight colors, but first:

If you love the hand-painted badges on the Karma Revero,

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Wireless Loudspeakers Beats Using Your Phone | LUNO

luno — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 05:46:47 +0000

Do you have wireless speakers? While you have more sophisticated electronic devices to play at home, and we at LUNO hope that one of them is one of our record consoles, you can’t bring any of them with you on the go. But what do you do when you’re away from home and you want to listen to music? You do like most people theses days: you use your phone. A smart choice, but not the best sound quality isn’t it? That’s why Vifa’s wireless loudspeakers beats using your phone when it comes to listening to music.

If fact, these speakers are so much better that they can be found in boutique hotels around the world. Their simple, sleek, Scandinavian design and their precious sound has made them a favorite of tourists. In certain of those hotels, products that guests used during their stay are made available for purchase at the shop or on their website, and the Vifa wireless loudspeaker is no different.

The frame of the speaker is aluminium, and the fabric is smooth. Vifa collaborated with Kvadrat, a Danish-textile company, to create an exclusive resistant fabric with good acoustic transmission. You can connect to the loudspeakers via a cable or Bluetooth. Vifa sells four types of wireless loudspeakers: City, Oslo, Helsinki, and Reykjavik. The last two comes with a leather strap that allows you to hold it in your hand like a bag as you walk around. So you can bring it to the office, place it on the table, and listen to music on a device with sound that rivals what you have at home.

City

Reykjavik

Helsinki

Oslo

Gone are the days when an electronic device in your office had to look like something your company got from Best Buy. Vifa gives you amazing sound quality, smart design, and mobility to carry the sound you want, wherever you want.

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The Grand Opening of the Opus Hotel in Dubai | LUNO

luno — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:40:03 +0000

With travel slowly coming back, people who have been stuck indoors for a couple months are thinking about where to go for vacation. As countries open back up, allowing outsiders to come in without a 14-day quarantine, more people will have the urge to travel. Well wherever in the world you are, if you’re allowed to visit Dubai you might want to stay at the Opus Studio, the city’s newest hotel. Opus Studio, which is part of Meliá Hotels International, and it opened in March 2020.

This hotel in the fashionable design/shopping Burj Khalifa district, was designed by the late architect, Zaha Hadid. It is the only hotel where she designed the architecture and the interior design. Of the building, the firm which still carries her name, describes the architecture of the hotel as a “balance between solid and void, opaque and transparent, interior and exterior.”

The building is in the form of a glass cube with an irregular void at the center, with an atrium at the ground floor and 3-level bridge at the top. It’s a very fluid design, with lots of curves. Special glass with UV coating keep the desert sunlight from making the interiors too hot.

Most of the furniture in the hotel was designed by Zaha Hadid. The 19 two-and-three-bedroom suites have a work-play functionality. There are 74 other regular rooms fitted with Bose sound system and the most futuristic furniture that you’ve ever seen. The hotel also includes restaurants, bars, and office space meeting rooms. And then there is a gym with the highest caliber of equipment that you’ll find on the market called the Technogym’s Biocircuit where you can input your biometrics and get a personalized workout programmed for you. You can go to their website to see how they are operating during the pandemic. As most hotels that have re-opened are doing, they have enhanced the cleaning and hygiene methods that they use. Bon Voyage!

Take a look at some photos below, but first remember:

When the world changes around you,

Chilling with loved ones is precious.

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Opus Studio by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photo by Laurian Ghinitoiu

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