New 7 star hotel in Dubai

New Seven Star Hotel In Dubai

Apeiron Hotel is a design concept for a new 7 star hotel in Dubai. Developer and construction schedule have not been announced as of October 2007. The Apeiron Hotel would be the second 7 star hotel to be built in Dubai (The Burj Al Arab hotel was the first 7 star hotel). Designed by UK’s Sybarite Architects, the hi-tech futuristic hotel would feature a two-storeyed jungle at the top of the 28-storeyed building.

The seven star hotel is an US $350 million project that would be 300m from the coast of Dubai. Access to the hotel is restricted to water and air only.

HOTEL STATISTICS

total floors: 28 (above ground), total suites: 438, suite sizes: 180m² – 750m², building height: 185m, gross floor area: 300,000m², site footprint area:26,500m², passenger lifts: 14, service lifts: 8, distance off shore: 300m (Building design is equally as powerful within a landlocked site), wind load factor: 350km per hour, structure: steel, reinforced concrete.

The hotel also contains private cinemas, luxury boutiques, conference rooms and restaurants. Other features will include an art gallery, shops, underwater spa & gym, an underwater restaurant. The hotel’s internal facade has louvers to prevent direct sunlight and will made up of solar cells as is the ribbon that frames the building that can generate some energy for the entire hotel. The 28-storey hotel environs will have an artificial crescent-shaped beach, private lagoons and a central lagoon with colourful coral reefs surrounding it.

HP TouchPad Powered By WebOS 3.0 Unbelived

HP TouchPad Powered By WebOS 3.0

It’s here folks! Hewlett Packard (HP) launched the much awaited TouchPad, previously tagged as Topaz, last night in San Francisco. HP’s first ever webOS slate became one of the main attractions at the launch event for the mobile world whose specs and features are ready to give a tough competition to the Apple iPad.

The interface features a spacious workspace and activity cards, giving users the access to visualize and organize on what they’re working on. Users can easily move back and forth between cards without closing any application. Multitasking made easy without the need to lose work or close a on-going task.

Pause a game, tap an email notification, check your calendar, read a restaurant review, send an IM, then switch back to the game without closing anything.

HP TouchPad Specs

1. The WebOS 3.0 Operating System

2. 9.7-inch multi-touch display with 1024 x 768 pixels resolution

3. Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual-CPU 1.2 GHz Processor

4. Virtual Keyboard

5. Email: Microsoft® Exchange email with Microsoft Direct Push Technology

6. Messaging: Integrated IM and SMS

7. GPS: A-GPS (3G models only)

8. Front-facing 1.3-megapixel webcam for live video calling

9. Light sensor, accelerometer sensor, compass (magnetometer), and gyroscope

10. Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication, Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support

11. 16GB or 32GB internal storage

12. 6300 mAh battery

13. Internal stereo speakers and Beats Audio™

Jon Rubinstein, Senior VP and GM, Hewlett Packard

Today we’re embarking on a new era of webOS with the goal of linking a wide family of HP products through the best mobile experience available. The flexibility of the webOS platform makes it ideal for creating a range of innovative devices that work together to keep you better connected to your world.

Latest Seagate Barracuda Green hard drive

Latest Seagate Barracuda Hard Disk

As you can tell by its name, the latest Seagate Barracuda Green hard drive has a heart for our environment. Yes, years after the hard drive industry has added countless toxins to Mother Nature, Seagate has recently developed a conscience that delivers technology without resulting in Greenpeace activists protesting outside of their offices. OK, so we’re kidding about that part, but you do get the point, right?

The Seagate Barracuda Green hard drive is the industry’s highest performance eco-friendly 3.5-inch desktop drive that is meant for low-power personal computers, multi-drive home networking systems and external PC storage. Apart from offering environmental improvements in power consumption and material usage, these drives will also be among the first hard drives from Seagate that come with SmartAlign technology.

The Barracuda Green hard drive is also known as the Barracuda LP if you were to have a sense of continuity, where it will merge the industry’s highest spin speed (5900 RPM) with Seagate’s aforementioned SmartAlign technology, delivering best-in-class performance. Just what does SmartAlign technology offer? Well, it enables all the benefits of the new 4K sector standard while simplifying drive installation, doing away with the need for utilities that are more often than not required to ensure optimum drive performance. Not only that, being cool-running, this lower-power Barracuda Green hard drive will be pleasant on your ears by delivering whisper-quiet acoustics while reducing system costs associated with the fans and power supply devices often required for power-hungry systems.

Over 70 percent of the materials used to build the drive can be recycled – now how green is that? In addition, all Barracuda Green drives will utilize low halogen components to further reduce the negative environmental impacts related to these substances. There is no word on pricing as at press time, but if you’re interested in picking up this puppy while doing your bit for the environment, it will come in 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities

Luxury Architecture Building Vodafone Office by Barbosa & Guimarães

This modern and unique Vodafone Office is located in Oporto, Portugal. The design was meant to reflect the phrase or slogan that defines the Vodafone brand “Vodafone Life, life in motion” or rather the philosophy of the brand. Rather than designed with straight lines and regular just as common building design, this stunning office building is preferred to show a monolithic body, out of balance and streams with many faces that express movement. In designing this eccentric office building, Barbosa & Guimarães Architects sought inspiration in painting, sculpture, photography and art in general which had already faced this dilemma.