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Jeff Campbell
04-19-2012, 12:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tuaw.com/2012/04/13/super-yacht-controlled-by-an-ipad/' target='_blank'>http://www.tuaw.com/2012/04/13/supe...led-by-an-ipad/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Looking more like a floating spaceship than a luxury boat, the Adastra is the result of five years of work by billionaire Anto Marden and yacht designer John Shuttleworth."</em></p><p><img height="248" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1334626668.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb; margin-left: 73px; margin-right: 73px;" width="453" /></p><p>Beauty and brains here, since its full of high-tech stuff including an iPad powered remote control system that can control a number of features from up to 50 meters distance. The cost to build? Approximately $23.9 million. The Daily Mall has a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128342/Yachting-enters-space-age--15m-superyacht-years-making-launches-china-signalling-new-dawn-long-range-cruising.html" target="_blank">full story</a> on the ship, or you can go right to the <a href="http://www.john-shuttleworth.com/adastra.html" target="_blank">Adastra website</a>.&nbsp;</p>

DaleReeck
04-19-2012, 03:50 PM
It looks like a Starfleet shuttlecraft.