Luxury
We Spoke to the Women Fighting Australia’s Tampon Tax
Australia's 15 years of taxing periods may finally be coming to an end soon. But why has this recent campaign been more successful than previous attempts?
Sex, Drugs, and Luxury: The Life of a Bellboy at a Five-Star Hotel
There's a lot more to being a bellboy than lugging people's bags up flights of stairs.
More Cocktails Should Come with Caviar
Truffle burgers and Champagne sorbet are so 2007, but this caviar cocktail from London's hotel The Ritz will still make your Maybach driver blush.
MUNCHIES Presents: The Real 'Pot Dealer' of Istanbul
Get ready to spend the day with the busiest pot dealer in Istanbul: Emir Ali Enç, the owner of Soy—the only Turkish company making handmade copper and silver cookware.
The MUNCHIES Guide to Tehran - Part 3
Gelareh feeds paddlefish and beluga—valued at up to $35,000 per fish—at the nation's first home of farm-raised caviar, Shilat Fish Farm. Then, she gets the royal treatment at Li Dona.
Neon Paint Experiment Visualizes High-Speed Ferrari Physics
For "State of the Art," Photographer Fabian Oefner transforms the Ferrari California T into his own colorful canvas.
The High Tech Cruise Ship Apparently Designed to Troll David Foster Wallace
"There's no way this turns into a nightmarish blood bath at the mega-powerful hands of these robots; it just isn't possible."
Have the 'Rich Kids of Instagram' Started Shitting Themselves?
The Rich Kids of Instagram (#RKOI) is a group made up of the sons and daughters of the world's one-percenters. Last week one of the RKs had four vehicles torched in as many days, totaling around $850,000 worth of damage.
I Confronted Donald Trump in Dubai
Donald Trump's hair should not be. It sits on his head like a soufflé, both airy and solid, as improbable as any building to which he's given his name.
Skinny's Oral History of Scion Socks
Since 2004, Scion has given away a lot of branded merchandise. Scion socks changed the game forever.
Home Automation Is Still Coming, If You Can Afford It
Smartphones and a host of tiny, tiny computers are about to automate your home. So sayeth the futurists, and so sayeth the profit-seeking siliconed youth. And, most recently, so sayeth the founders of Ube, a startup that thinks that one day, we should...
Sex Gadgets of the Rich and Shameless
Sex sells. A lot. Put aside all the exciting teledildonics hype for a second and remember that the old-fashioned sex toy industry is valued at $15 billion and growing. And if you believe sexuality counselor Ian Kerner, sex toys have now gone mainstream...