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Underwater Hotel to Be Dubai's Latest Extravagance

Skylines are so passé. In an attempt to give travelers better—or at least closer—ocean views, Dubai-based construction company Drydocks World and Swiss consulting, engineering, and brokerage firm BIG InvestConsult will build the Water Discus Hotel, a luxury underwater hotel in Dubai.

Poland’s Deep Ocean Technology designed the hotel, surrounded by a coral reef, to have 21 two-person rooms with huge windows and an underwater diving center. Rooms will be as deep as 10 meters below the surface, and diving training will be offered. The hotel can also rotate. A large disc-shaped structure above the water will have a spa, garden, and upper-terrace swimming pool—presumably for guests at an underwater hotel who don’t actually want to be in the ocean.

Architect Paweł Podwojewski says he started designing the hotel two years ago. He approached it more as if it were a ship than a building, and kept construction costs low by making the structure simple and not fixing it to the ocean floor. The hotel can surface for repairs or evacuation in anywhere from 15 minutes to 12 hours—the speed is adjustable—and be tugged to new locations. The acrylic windows are the most expensive part, he says, and can be added or removed based on the budget.

Water Discus Hotel is not the first underwater hotel to be announced, but it could be the first to succeed. In 2006, plans were made for Hydropolis, a 250- to 300-suite resort off the coast of Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, though the estimated $300 million project never even began construction. U.S. Submarine Structures also announced Poseidon Undersea Resort in Fiji, which lists a package on its website for seven days and six nights for $15,000 per person. Poseidon, under construction, has been delayed and the opening is at least 20 months out, says L. Bruce Jones, chief executive of U.S. Submarine Structures. Another underwater hotel was planned in Istanbul.

Basic engineering and design questions aside, there are other things the casual traveler might wonder: “Do I still need sunblock? Will my iPhone work underwater? What if the hotel scares away the sea creatures? If something goes wrong, can the evacuation system that lifts the underwater hotel to the surface really be expected to work, as animated in the video? Is it a bad idea to watchJaws 3—in which a man-eating shark breaks through the glass in a control room at an ocean amusement park—before arriving? Could I get seasick?”

The project will cost from $50 million to $120 million, depending on the design, the chairman of Drydocks World told reporters. BIG InvestConsult will fund the project and represent Deep Ocean Technology, which owns the technology and concept for the hotel. The announcement comes a month after Drydocks World sought insolvency protection in Dubai and Singapore to push through a $2.2 billion debt restructuring, according to the Vancouver Sun. Drydocks World and Maritime World are the main contractors for new hotels and floating cities in the Middle East, which so far include two developments with five hotels, reported the Chicago Tribune, and there are discussions to build more underwater hotels around the world.

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Why Women Date Assholes!

BY JAMIE CONDLIFFE

It's well known that women find sexy, rebellious rogues attractive. Duh. But 
until now it's not really been clear why women choose to turn that attraction 
into long-term relationships, when they know they stand a high chance of 
getting burned. New research, however, reveals that the secret lies in the 
hormones.

Sure, a woman might choose to mate with an attractive male because
evolutionarily it means attractive kids. But that doesn't entirely explain things,
as there's more to life than good-looking offspring. Now, research conducted
at the University of Texas at San Antonio and published in the Journal of 
Personality and Social Psychology suggests that during ovulation hormones 
affect judgment of parenting potential. Kristina Durante, one of the 
researchers, explains to Live Science:

"Under the hormonal influence of ovulation, women delude themselves 

into thinking that the sexy bad boys will become devoted partners and 

better dads. When looking at the sexy cad through ovulation goggles, 

Mr. Wrong looked exactly like Mr. Right."

Essentially, during ovulation women are more likely to believe that rogues
would make better potential fathers—so they specifically pick sexier men
over obviously more dependable men—even if they're jerks.

To establish that, female participants were asked to view online dating
profiles of either sexy or reliable men during periods of both high and low 
fertility. When asked to predict likely paternal contribution from the 
prospective partners close to ovulation, the women thought the sexy men 
would contribute most. In other words, that long-term, they'd make 
better dads.

The researchers backed that up with a second study, where actors played
the role ofsexy cad or reliable dad, and the result turned out just the same. 
So, if a woman startsdating an asshole, she will—at least once a 
month—be under the impression that he'll make a good long-term mate. 
One interesting aside is the fact that the effects only seem to apply to the 
individual. Durante explains:

"When asked about what kind of father the sexy bad boy would make if 

he were to have children with another woman, women were quick to 

point out the bad boy's shortcomings. But when it came to their own 

child, ovulating women believed that the charismatic and adventurous 

cad would be a great father to their kids."

The take-home message from the research? Timing, my friend.
Timing is everything. [Journal of Personality and Social 
Psychology via Live Science]

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Talk to the hand with a phone in a 3D-printed glove

By Rich Trenholm 

Mobile Phones

Mobile phones: they're pretty handy, right? But holding one does mean your hand is tied up -- unless you don Glove One, a glove with a phone in it. Best of all, you can make it yourself.

Glove One is an art project by Milwaukee-based designer Bryan Cera. The numbers are on the fingers, so you dial and chat away by holding up thumb and little finger in the universal symbol for "call me".

It's made out of jointed bits of plastic, and here's the really clever part: you can print the plastic joints with a 3D printer to build your own gloved phone, making you look like Michael Jackson dialling out.

3D printing involves a machine like the Makerbot Thing-O-Matic building up layers of plastic to a set design to create your piece of kit. Press play on our video to see the Thing-O-Matic in action.

According to its designer, the five-fingered phone is "the literalization of Sherry Turkle's notion of technology as a 'phantom limb', in how we augment ourselves through an ambivalent reliance on it, as well as a celebration of the freedom we seek in our devices... While we enjoy the fantasies they offer, we rethink the technologies we construct and reflect on how they construct us." Quite.

I'd like to see a smart phone version with a screen in the palm for web browsing and watching HD movies. And how about pairing it with Nokia's magnetic tattoo that vibrates when you get a call to turn your body into a bionic blower? 

Until then we'll stick with our Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X -- at least until bionic eyeballsand Google brain implants come along.

Would you wear a glove with a phone in it, or are mobiles fine the way they are? Smell the glove in the comments or on our Facebook page.

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