Today we’re taking you on a trip to Berlin. The German capital is famous for many things, some bad, some good. As far as art and culture go, however, Berlin has no shortage of it. In fact, the city enjoys a reputation as home for many young people, cultural entrepreneurs and international artists.

Where do all these young creatives live? Berlin’s incredible apartments, of course. The city is full of amazing interior design and cutting edge architecture, from masculine bachelor pads to cosy loft apartments and luxe penthouses that soar far above the city and demonstrate an edgy combination of old and new that will have you booking a one-way ticket to Berlin in no time.

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Poland is not normally known for its boundary-pushing architecture but Cuns Studio has seemingly changed all that with their modern apartment designed for the music aficionado.

Whether you’re a player or just an avid listener, the space has all the right moves to keep the most discerning home dwellers in awe.

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Think exposed brick walls and wooden frame work, storm cloud lighting, free-standing speakers, epic lounge chairs, cone speakers and a kitchen which includes an integrated wine fridge. For the creative recluse, there’s even a hanging hammock on the second floor which overlooks the lounge below.

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3D printing is beginning to take hold of some of man’s most beloved toys and today that reach finally extends to the humble motorcycle.

APWorks is the metal research company founded by the Airbus Group in 2013 to help devise innovative machinery, automotive and robotic components. Their most recent design project is a 3D printed electric motorcycle called Light Rider – a world first. The bike utilises a crazy new metal called Schalmalloy which possesses the strength of titanium as well as being resistant to corrosion. Wolverine fans, we hope you’re paying attention.   

The bike itself weighs in at a waif 35kg which makes it 30% lighter than most electric motorcycles on the market. On the performance front, its 80km/h top speed is helped by the weight as is the three-second 0-45km/h sprint.

A full charge affords the bike a 60km range whilst the price is understandable steep for a R&D project. 50 examples have been built and are ready for pre-order at US$56,100 a piece. Get your 3D printed motorcycle right here.

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If you’ve been touching up your resume to perfection in recent years, narrowing down the perfect font and format, you might want to shut down Microsoft Word and listen up. Online retail company Everlane is now accepting job applications submitted via Snapchat. Yes, you read that right, Snapchat.

Everlane said that making a Snapchat story might be the “best way to get hired in 2016” and encourages applicants to apply by making a 60-90 second “story” detailing why they would be a good fit for any open positions with the company. Once the story goes lives, applicants are asked to tweet the company their Snapcode and save the story before it reaches the 24-hour expiration date so it can then be emailed.

Seems like a pretty ridiculous way to apply for a job, but Everlane aren’t the only company using the photo sharing app in creative ways. World Wildlife Fund’s #LastSelfie Snapchat campaign raises awareness about endangered species, GrubHub uses Snapchat to find a summer intern and Heineken produced exclusive Snapchat content at Coachella.

If you aren’t familiar with Snapchat, it might be a good time to start making stories with a recent Comscore report finding that Snapchat is the third most popular social app among 18-34-year-olds behind Facebook and Instagram and is said to have about 30 million active users.

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From sneakers to artificial organs it seems that 3-D printing is everywhere these days and the options are endless. That’s why when three New York-based designers team up to reimagine objects with 3-D printing, you know it’s going to be pretty darn impressive.

Joe Doucet, Dean DiSimone and Evan Clabots of OTHR have taken the mechanism of 3-D printing and turned into a tool for magnificent design, creating the “first everyday artifacts of the third industrial revolution”.

Totally minimalist and functional, the objects are made of materials like porcelain, steel and precious metals to form beautiful, intricate and simplistic shapes you’ll never believe have been printed.

“In the future as a designer, you’re either going to be a maker, which I have the utmost respect for and we have several working with us on OTHR, or you’re going to be a creator of intellectual property. And the small-level manufacturer is going to be eviscerated. It’s either going to be craftsmen, or robots. And since I’m not a craftsmen, I opted to pioneer the robots,” said Doucet in a recent Design Milk podcast.

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If you thought enjoying a schooner of classy VB was a modern man’s past time, you’re sorely mistaken with researchers recently revealing that beer brewing existed 5,000 years ago in ancient China.

According to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers dug up a recipe for beer from two pits on a site called Mijiaya in China which are dated back to around 3,400-2,900 BC.

The ancient recipe features ingredients like broomcorn millet, barley, Job’s tears and tubers. In case you were wondering, Job’s tears are an Asian grass which bears its seeds inside hollow pear-shaped receptacles.

As well as the recipe, researchers found yellowish remnants in wide-mouthed pots and funnels that they claim were used for beer brewing, filtration and storage, as well as stoves that were likely used for heating and mashing grains.

Apparently, it’s the earliest indication that advanced beer-brewing techniques were established in China this long ago. Who would’ve thought the ancient Chinese loved a brew or two.

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Ah, selfies. Once an honest man’s way to show the world his best mug, and now a narcissist’s dream perpetuated by the likes of Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber. But amidst the trout pouts and shirtless bathroom wonders, the question remains, do people really look more attractive in selfies?

Well, according to a study conducted at the University of Toronto published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, they don’t.

The study enlisted 198 college students (100 of who were reported “regular selfie-takers”) and compared their selfies to photos of them taken by another person. Participants ranked their own photos on how attractive and likeable the post would be on social media, and then 178 members of the public ranked the same photos but also included how narcissistic the subject came off.

Interestingly, subjects thought highly of their selfies’ attractiveness and likability, but the public did not. To make matters worse, “selfie-takers” were found to have a tendency to think they looked better in selfies than in photos taken by someone else.

“Selfie-takers generally over-perceived the positive attributes purveyed by their selfies,” the researchers said. “Here, we found that selfie-takers believed their selfies to look more attractive and likeable than photos of them taken by other people. In reality, though, external raters actually perceived the targets’ selfies to look less attractive and less likeable than the photos taken by others (as well as more narcissistic).”

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Make no mistake, the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio is a stake in the sand for the Italian marque’s arrival as a real contender in the high performance luxury car market.

We flew to the car maker’s hometown of Milan to discover the long awaited four-door sedan from Alfa Romeo. Speaking to pundits and car lovers alike, you get a sense that this is Alfa’s time to shine; a time when it can go pound-for-pound with zee Germans and just maybe come out on top.

If the Italians can do anything right it’s create a great looking car and the Giulia Quadrifoglio is exactly that. A modern symbol of striking Italian design that’s aggressive in all the right places to let people know it means business on the road.

Bred For Performance

The Alfa Romeo Giulia is one hundred percent new from the ground up. A lot of this has to do with the fact that the car draws inspiration from Ferrari’s 458, even going as far as to hiring the brand’s chief engineer, Philippe Krief, to take charge of the top secret Giulia project back in 2013.

At the launch, Krief explained that building the Giulia was no easy feat.

“There’s a lot of things [to consider]. We define the exact way you should be seated in the car; the lower the better. Then we harmonise everything. The quick steering, the 50/50 weight distribution, the brakes, the engine.”

What we find most interesting is the fact that Alfa Romeo built the high-performance Giulia Quadrifoglio first, then expanded the range to its more affordable siblings. It’s an unconventional move but the final result is easily proven in the final performance figures.

The brand has also taken every possible step to create the perfect driving experience both inside and out. We spent some time with Klaus Busse, Vice President of Design at Alfa’s headquarters and the Giulia design team, where we discovered a sense of just how much thought went into this car’s development.

The new Giulia takes its lines from some of Alfa’s most classic cars like the original 1960’s Giulia, the stunning 33 Stradale and the always impressive 1900 C52 “Disco Volante” Coupé.

Then there’s the often forgotten rich motorsport history of Alfa Romeo touring cars, Formula 1 and hundreds of championship wins. Larini, Ascari and Fangio are just some of the biggest names who drove for the brand.

Naturally the expectations are high with fans and media but you get a sense that Alfa Romeo know they’ve got the Giulia right from the start. It’s still to be decided on whether this car will become an icon like its predecessors, but for now the Italian brand does have something that people are stepping up and taking notice of.

Alfa Romeo Giulia Is Pure Italian Design

If curves could kill then consider the Giulia Quadrifoglio (QV) one deadly Italian. It’s beautiful, it’s angular, it’s aggressive, but most importantly it doesn’t feel like a carbon copy of the other mid-sized sedans in its class. It’s unique in all the right places with little touches which give it the ‘don’t mess with me, I’ll blow your doors off’ vibe. The very vibe you want to give off when dropping the kids off at school.

The QV features a front grill which wears the iconic Alfa Romeo ‘Tri-bolo’’ shield alongside a twin intake design which sucks in as much air as possible for the turbos. As mentioned, carbon fibre adorns the car with a boot lid spoiler and active front splitter working in tandem with a rear diffuser to keep the car planted at speed.

“The real challenge is the DNA. It’s important to give the feeling of Alfa Romeo and not just the picture of Alfa Romeo from the past for today.”

It also comes with side skirts and vented wheel arches to accommodate the wider wheel and optional carbon-ceramic brake package for the track fiends.

For real world driving necessities, there are fancy Xenon headlamps which comes standard and were developed by the technology boffins at Magneti Marelli. LED globes are also available as an optional extra.

Speaking to the Giulia designers at the Bolocco Proving Ground, it was revealed that the car wasn’t made to specifically spearhead Alfa Romeo’s future designs.

“Our heritage is important. For the future we always balance what we need. It’s not a copy of the past or a remake of a car. The real challenge is the DNA. It’s important to give the feeling of Alfa Romeo and not just the picture of Alfa Romeo from the past for today.”

The new Alfa Romeo Giulia quite simply feels fresh in the skin, but hides away small cues that still make it recognisable as an Alfa Romeo. The sculpted sides, the front fascia and a powerful stance all attribute to what designers say, “draws from history to capture the Italian emotion”. We’d just call it a fine balance of finesse and ferocity. 

This will no doubt give local punters a greater idea of how much work went into this car as well as Alfa Romeo’s capabilities for delivering future special models.

An Interior Fit For An Italian

Alfa Romeo’s design team spent countless months developing various mood boards and territories to encapsulate the true essence of what the Giulia should be. They landed somewhere between ‘Ryan Gosling’ and ‘Justin O’Shea’.

Their interior design team have been fortunate to have an almost limitless selection of fabrics and materials from some of the country’s finest ateliers. Carbon fibre, wood, fabric, leather…the exotic list goes on.

The Quadrifoglio’s leather-clad carbon-fibre seats alone show the length the brand has gone to in creating a racing cockpit that’s as performance oriented as it is comfortable.

Ergonomics ensure drivers remain in total control even when at opposite lock going around a corner with an Orange Mocha Frappachino in hand. At the other end of the spectrum, an intuitive drive and entertainment control means changing between Beyonce and finding the nearest organic kale smoothy is almost effortless.

Technology Inspired By Formula 1

The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio resides at the pinnacle of technology. Having spent a day with their technology partner Magneti Marelli, you begin to understand just how much motorsport inspired technology goes into the new car.

For the uninitiated, Magneti Marelli is responsible for a lot of technology you see in Formula 1. Advancements like the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), Formula E engines and the MotoGP ECUs have all been graced by the Magneti Marelli name.

Our time at Magneti Marelli was spent asking the team hundreds of amazingly pointless questions about Ferrari, its drivers and their staff’s involvement in the sport for many years. Roberto Dalla who is the head of motorsport at Magneti Marelli was more than happy to divulge the stories during his tenure as the head of technology at Ferrari.

Considering Roberto has helped Ferrari win eleven World Championships, it says a lot about what’s gone into the new Giulia Quadrifoglio.

The navigation and entertainment system was also developed by Magneti Marelli and is nicely integrated into the car’s dash. The navigation system also proved to be exceptionally easy to use regardless of its understated design.

As you can imagine, trying to navigate the Italian country roads is no easy feat, but the car actually made things simpler. It was the toll booths which brought us unstuck in the end but that’s not the car’s fault.

On The Road To Glory

What can we say about the Alfa Romeo Giulia other than we were pleasantly surprised with the level of driver involvement.

The Giulia Quadrifoglio is one incredibly smooth drive which absorbs the bumps with ease but feels as solid as a rock whilst belting through the corners with poise and minimal body roll.

The gear shift is also smooth and enhanced with a top notch paddle system that powers an eight speed auto.

Three drive modes are available across the Giulia models which uses Alfa’s proprietary D.N.A system – a mode selector which offer drivers the ability to create a customised driving style experience according to conditions or desired car responsiveness. Fun fact: ‘Race’ mode is also available on the Quadrifoglio – this eventually lead me to a moment on the track at Bulocco which had me facing the wrong way.

Performance In Numbers

Let’s get the details out of the way. The Giulia Quadrifoglio has a 375kW 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6 that propels even the slowest ginger from 0-100 in less than 4 seconds.

All of these figures wouldn’t mean much if there wasn’t a sufficient way to put the power down and that’s where the QV’s eight-speed automatic transmission comes into play, sending a tyre smoking 600Nm of torque to the rear wheels.

Giulia’s chief engineer Philippe Krief told us that the dual clutch option was intentionally left out in order to maintain a sporty yet comfortable ride for customers. He added that this move was also about capturing that all elusive emotion of driving.

“We wanted to make a car that is easy to drive. If it’s a performance car but not easy to drive, your emotion will transform in a bad way, especially in the wet.”  

We couldn’t agree more. Passion, beauty and speed. Easily three of our favourite words. And now you can make Giulia our fourth.

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If you’ve completed your tour of the world’s craziest foods, you’re ready for round two of the odd eats challenge: the world’s weirdest restaurants.

These bizarre spots don’t just offer feasts in the traditional sense, they’re also feasts for the eyes and the imagination. You could dine amongst the clouds, be served by sexy nurses, or eat out of a miniature toilet bowl – there are no limits in the game of unforgettable eating.

Modern Toilet | Taipei, Taiwan

The name is an instant clue to the strangeness of this Taiwanese eatery. At Modern Toilet, guests sit on closed toilets and eat out of commode-shaped bowls while surrounded by bathroom-themed décor. Regular visitors can even join the frequent flusher program to secure their own bowl. The original Taipei location was so wildly (if inexplicably) successful that Modern Toilet is now a chain found all around Taiwan.

Medieval Times | Orlando, Florida, USA

Jousting, weaponry, horsemanship, falconry, knights, a king, and a 4-course meal fit for royalty – Medieval Times has it all. The exterior of each of the chain’s nine restaurants resembles a castle, and all present a dinner show with actors in character, jousting tournaments, and other era-appropriate games. It’s a must for any over-eager Dungeons & Dragons fan.

Heart Attack Grill | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The Heart Attack Grill is an American cliché taken to a level only Las Vegas could achieve. The high-cal menu includes such gems as the Quadruple Bypass burger, 1/2 Pound Coronary Dog, and Flatliner Fries – often smothered in bacon or deep fried in pure lard. If that’s not enough to earn a place on this list, the waitresses also sport sexy nurse outfits and patrons over 350 pounds eat free.

Dinner In The Sky | Worldwide

Dinner in the sky usually means disappointing airline food, but on rare occasions, it means dining while hovering 50 metres above the ground. Dinner in the Sky takes foodies to new heights by hosting 5-star meals at a table attached to a crane in a location of your choosing. The concept originated in Belgium and has since been rolled out worldwide.

Cabbages and Condoms | Bangkok, Thailand

Cabbages & Condoms has a quirky name, but a serious purpose. All proceeds from the Bangkok resto support a sex education and AIDS prevention organisation called the Population and Community Development Association. Condoms decorate the walls (and even the wait staff’s heads), and diners are invited to leave with rubbers instead of after-meal mints.

Dick’s Last Resort | USA

Rude service isn’t a problem at Dick’s Last Resort – it’s the whole reason for being there. The restaurant chain’s employees are intentionally obnoxious and abrasive, the menu items have vulgar names, and the souvenir selection is brimming with dick jokes. Patrons can expect to be insulted, made fun of, and put in uncomfortable situations, all in the name a memorable meal.

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