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• Laptop-in-a-bag wins Wal-Mart challenge
HP's Pavilion dv6929, which Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores are selling for $798, was singled out for a design that reduces packaging by 97 percent and requires a quarter fewer trucks to deliver the laptops to stores given their smaller size when ...
• The coolest places in Spain's hot seaside city
A distinct yen for experimentation in design — look no further than Antoni Gaudí’s iconic Sagrada Familia, now expected to be completely roofed by 2010 — coupled with a buoyant civic pride make Barcelona fertile ground for creative types and ...
• Need a hobby? Try collecting rainwater
A fixture of building design in the Roman empire and in outposts along the American frontier, rainwater harvesting is making a comeback in states including Texas, North Carolina, and California.
• Deluxe designer hotels
Just this past July, fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld signed up with Dubai-based investment company Dubai Infinity to design a hotel and 80 residential villas as a part of Isla Moda in Dubai, dubbed the "world's first fashion island.
• The world's coolest airport terminals
Sir Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Richard Rogers and other luminaries have turned today's airports into welcome mats of masterful design.