Google co-founder Brin building 'air yacht' to help the poor

Washington

GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin is spending more than US$100 million to build the world's largest airship, a blimp with a rigid structure designed to both deliver supplies abroad for humanitarian projects and to ferry Mr Brin's family and friends around the globe, said Britain's The Guardian newspaper.

The project is the latest example of Silicon Valley attempting to reshape how goods and people are moved. But some say it also underscores a penchant for tech moguls to colour their projects with seemingly virtuous ambition.