This is one up on roof-top, revolving restaurants. A dining hall virtually hanging in the sky, 100 feet above the ground.
The Festival in the Sky, a 22-seat dinner table hoisted into the air by a huge crane, will be the attraction at the Edinburgh Festival in England this August.
Each of the guests will be fastened into their chairs, which will rotate to allow diners to look out over the Edinburgh castle. Each sitting will last for half an hour, and guests can book in for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea or dinner, according to Oli Norman, managing director of organisers Dada Ventures.
Councillor Steve Cardownie said: “Dining in the sky will be memorable enough, but, with the stunning backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, our world heritage site and the views across the river Forth.”
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German doc sells online body parts
London: What do you want — A sliver of human head, a piece of smokers’ lungs or a slice of human hand? All that and much more are now available through a mail order service set up in Germany. The service has been started by controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who is the inventor of a system known as plastination in which fluids are removed from dead humans or animals and replaced with silicon. This allows body parts to be preserved indefinitely. The Guardian reported that the store has been opened in the German town of Guben, on the same site as the factory where Von Hagens converts dead beings into plastinated objects.
Body part prices range from 1,500 euros for a sliver of human head to 15,000 euros for entire length of a human body. —IANS