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It was utopian and idealistic, and the pods were designed with modular furniture built into the walls.

The best often carefully source their cacao pods — an increasingly expensive endeavor — then roast and grind the beans into chocolate bars.

OceanWell Co. plans to anchor about two dozen 40-foot-long devices, called pods, to the seafloor several miles offshore and use them to take in saltwater and pump purified fresh water to shore in a pipeline.

Purchases included £2,500 spent by UK diplomats at a women's shoe shop in Barbados and £1,200 on luxury coffee pods by one team in two months.

Neighbouring pods are filled with tourists taking pictures of the views across the capital, looking resplendent in the spring sunshine.