The blend is meant to represent the history of cacao, originally harvested in South America only for its mushy pulp. They're here at the annual Good Food Awards to pick up a prize for their Triple Cacao bar, which blends pulp from cacao pods and fragments of processed beans (nibs) with organic, fair-trade chocolate.
"Would you like to try some chocolate?" he asks, reaching into the bag with a pair of bamboo tongs.īletter, '92, is visiting from Hawaii, where he runs Madre Chocolate with co-founder David Elliott. He swivels the enormous black pack around to his front and pulls out a plastic baggie.
Weaving through a crowd of foodies in San Francisco's Ferry Building one evening in January, he spots someone who doesn't appear to be eating anything. Other parts of the world are also racing to deploy this service, but entities in Dubai have raised the stakes by funding the process, and allowing the American firm to use UAE's ecosystem for futuristic projects.Īs emerging smart spaces like NEOM are promising car-free cities with an underground commute, existing cities including Dubai and Sharjah are turning to electric scooters as well as hanging sky pods, to tackle traffic.Nat Bletter's backpack is where the good stuff is. Once these pods zooming inside tubes speed up traveling between Dubai and Abu Dhabi along with other emirates, a network will be set up between major cities in the gulf region. Tested first with passengers almost a year back, the revolutionary public transport system is being developed by Virgin Hyperloop, at the Abu Dhabi innovation hub which is providing resources and tech support. Visitors can take a seat inside the pod, to experience the look and feel of the fast-paced yet comfortable public commute, which will be available to Emiratis soon. The vehicle to be unveiled at the FLOW pavilion set up by DP World, is a replica of the wagon created to transport products through the firm's Cargospeed system. Residents of the UAE and later those from other parts of the gulf will commute via pressurised tubes designed to propel pods, which will be on display at Expo 2020 in Dubai. Driverless buses are being tested in the UAE, and routes are being mapped out by AI for avoiding traffic, while the world is looking forward to flying cabs as an option for Dubai in the not so distant future.īut moving beyond quick travel within futuristic cities, the much hyped hyperloop is also being touted as a network which can move passengers between Emirati cities within minutes. Superfast public transport for a swift daily commute that makes life easier for residents is evolving as a major feature of smart cities taking shape in different parts of the Middle East.
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