Russian billionaire gives a tour of his $300 million yacht (VIDEO)

The Wall Street Journal has managed to become the first to ever catch a glimpse of the interior of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichencko's 394-foot yacht. 'A', which cost around three hundred million dollars to build, was designed by legendary French designer Phillipe Starck and boasts a number of homage to wealth and billionaire excess. 


Among other comforts, a glass bottomed pool and stingray hide wall fittings adorn the seemingly infinite list of features which seem to scream vulgar ostentation. Watch the video below. 

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Giant floating hotel billed as 'travel of the future'

A newly designed, modern and sleek medium of travel is currently being explored by a number of pretentious New York design firms - who bill their new 'floating hotel' as a major leap towards a more luxurious, slower-paced and environmentally friendly mode of travel. 

On the Aircruise - a towering airship packing 330,000 cubic metres of hydrogen gas, capable of lifting 396 tonnes - travellers will be able to float through the clouds, literally.

Design director Nick Talbot says guests aboard the airship can "bathe in the clouds" standing on an open air promenade deck, the size of a standard football field.

Mr Talbot, who has worked on the interiors of the world's first private spaceship to be launched by Virgin Galactic, said the concept of Aircruise is almost a romantic, philosophical statement.

"I don't know if it will ever be built", he admits.

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Newly designed Brisbane hospital for children is a wasteland of colorful hope

The new hospital for children (pictured above) in Brisbane may just be the most colorful hospital in the world. Due to open sometime in 2014, the new building is said to be costing local government just over $1 billion.

According to gadget website Gizmodo, once it's finished in four years' time, the hospital will contain 359 beds and is just bright and cheery-looking enough that it should help lessen the trauma of the kids who are cooped up inside. [Via Gizmodo] View more pictures after the jump. 

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Rolling Stone decided Sgt. Pepper's was the best album of all time, now Wired thinks the same of its cover art

When Rolling Stone published its list of the best albums in history, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was sitting pretty in first place. Now Wired magazine has bestowed the same "No 1" spot to its cover art.

The Beatles also had, like they did in Rolling Stone's list, a number of other placings in the select few.

Abbey Road and Revolver among them.

See the full Wired article.

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