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It seems the construction boom in bustling Dubai is far from over – already home to several world record-holding projects, including the tallest building (for just a little while longer), the largest shopping mall and biggest man-made island, plans are now afoot to construct what will likely be the world's largest underwater luxury hotel, the Water Discus. Several years ago, we reported on another such ambitious project, Hydropolis, which sadly never got past the blueprint stage. If Polish company Deep Ocean Technology's (DOT) plans come to fruition, however, guests could one day find themselves asleep beneath the waters of the Persian Gulf. To bring this fantasy complex into being, DOT, with the help of Swiss firm BIG InvestConsult AG, turned to local shipyard Drydocks World, which will be tasked with constructing the futuristic disc-shaped hotel. The underwater portion, with about 11,000 square feet (1,000 square meters) of usable area, will house 21 two-guest rooms, an

Life is a sincere teacher. It is always ready to teach us lessons, even if we are not interested and do not want to learn them. The relationships we entered, stayed in, or even ended teach us a lot. The irony is that most of the time, the writing is on the wall, but we prefer to look away finding it too harsh to accept. Too late in life I learnt many lessons which I would like to share with my readers.Looking back at my life as I have reached the threshold of old age, there are times when I wonder….. There are so many ifs and buts concerned! What would life have been if I had learnt my lessons on time? Maybe the face of my life would have been totally different (though I can not say better) today. Too late in life I learnt to take a stand. Often when I found myself in a confronting situation, I preferred to retreat instead of holding my grounds and fighting for what was right in my opinion. The coward inside me, feared the disapproval of the people I

An economist had finished his day at work and was leaving for home, when he noticed a small boy call out to him from the footpath where he was sitting with a dog. The boy said, "Sir, would you like to buy a dog." The economist was surprised by the approach, but asked nevertheless, "How much are you selling the dog for?" The boy replied "Twenty thousand dollars." "Twenty thousand dollars for this dog!" the economist exclaimed. "Does he know any special tricks to make him worth so much money?" The boy replied, "Sir, this dog never made a dime in his life. If you take into consideration the expenses on his food, I think you will lose money on him every year." The economist did not want to let go the opportunity to lecture the boy about the principles of economics and explained to him the fact that a commodity needed to yield more returns than it consumed to equal a purchase price. He finished by

Ruggedizing your portable electronics makes sense and Lifedge has a new option for the 40 million-odd iPad owners in the world. Lifedge's case has an IP (Ingress Protection) rating of IP67 for keeping water and dust out. It will protect an iPad for 30 minutes in one meter (3 feet) of water, or if it is dropped onto a concrete floor from a height of one meter. Lifedge is a new brand launched by Scanstrut, an international manufacturer of products designed to protect equipment used in demanding marine environments. Though Scanstrut has been in the marine market for 25 years, Lifedge is Scanstrut's initial foray outside its core market and it intends to build its name in new areas with an entirely new range of products aimed at enabling digital activities under any conditions. The iPad, with its built-in GPS and big screen, is a natural for use in outdoor environments, except it's a little too delicate for all that salt-water, sun, heat, cold, spray ad infinitum

Both a few decades ago, at the time when phones looked more like portable radio transmitters, and now, when all they have is a glossy black screen, there have always been the cell phones which definitely had style. Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Motorola MicroTAC 9800X Motorola International 3200 Nokia 1011 BellSouth/IBM Simon Motorola StarTAC Nokia 8110 Nokia 9000 Nokia 9110i Nokia 5110 Siemens C25 Nokia 8210 Nokia 7110 Nokia 5210 Benefon Esc Samsung SPH-M100 Uproar Nokia 3210 Ericsson R380 Nokia 3310 Ericsson R320 Siemens ME45 Nokia 5510 Nokia 8310 Ericsson T39 Ericsson T66 Ericsson T68 Siemens S45 Nokia 6800 Nokia 3510(i) Nokia 7650 Sony Ericsson P800 Nokia 6100 Nokia 6310i Sanyo SCP-5300 Nokia 1100 Nokia N-Gage PalmOne Treo 600 Nokia 2100 Nokia 6600 BlackBerry Quark 6210 BlackBerry 7210 Nokia 7600 Nokia 6230 Motorola Razor V3 Sony Ericsson P910