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May 29, 2012
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...
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May 15, 2012
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...
Talk to the hand with a phone in a 3D-printed glove
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...