Gadgetopia

Dubai Architecture-: We ve talked before about the insanity that is Dubai. This is a simple page of captioned images of the things currently going in and planned for Dubai. It s astonishing. I m waiting for a bubble to burst over there. You can t sustain this level of development forever.

Dubai tower is now world s tallest : An unfinished skyscraper in Dubai has unofficially become the tallest building in the world. Developers of a 1,680-foot (512 meters) skyscraper still under construction in oil-rich Dubai has claimed that it has become the world s tallest building, surpassing Taiwan s Taipei 101 which has dominated ...

I m kind of a building / engineering / architecture groupie, and I m starting to learn how Dubai is Ground Zero these days for magnificent buildings. There s simply nothing they can t or won t build. The picture above is a rendering of the Burj Dubai, which is currently under construction. It s ...

What's a self-respecting Arab ski bum (or ski bunny) to do when baba takes the keys to the Gulfstream away, and he's stuck in Dubai for the weekend? He goes skiing in Dubai, of course! I hadn't heard about this place until a friend forwarded a message with photos about ...

HYDROPOLIS: Yet another undersea hotel. [sigh] They're getting so commonplace these days. Hydropolis is structured in three elements: the land station, the connecting tunnel, and the submarine complex. The land station is the reception and welcome centre for the hotel's guests. The connecting tunnel is the lifeline of the complex ...

A traveling geek's gilded dream: We've already established that the folks in Dubai like to build big. That apparently extends to their neighbors in Abu Dhabi as well. The Emirates Palace is certainly the world's most expensive hotel, and is being heralded as its most high-tech as well. The unique ...