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StoreDot’s Flash Battery charges cell phones in 30 seconds flat

StoreDot is the latest Israeli startup to wow the world with a groundbreaking new charger that takes a cell phone battery from 27 percent...

Arab Gulf super highrise lifestyle is killing kids

A fall from a stepladder can kill you, so what’s your chance of surviving a topple from a high-rise building? Earlier this month, a 9-year-old...

Virgin’s Branson builds Moon Hotel – for space flight tourists?

Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson yesterday unveiled new architectural designs from his subsidiary Virgin Buildings, including a plane-shaped building for London and a...

Is this the world’s longest billboard?

It looks like yet another world record may be broken soon with the world's longest billboard along the side of the Sheikh Zayed Road,...

Sand Babel: a solar 3D-printed skyscraper made with desert twist

An invention that 3D prints buildings using sand as a raw material? We knew that someone would put Markus Keyser's amazing solar sinter tool to...

Forget Godzilla! We see Dubai storm swallow mile-high Burj Khalifa [video]

Last Friday, a ferocious desert rainstorm blew into Dubai swallowing up the city and making the world's tallest building - the Burj Khalifa -...

Dubai’s huge green mosque polishing off for eco-Muslim masses

Construction of the first eco-friendly mosque in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is nearly complete and Tayeb Al Rais, secretary-general of the Awqaf and...

Solar-battery eco-boats clean up stinky Sharjah lagoons

The Middle East's first solar-powered boats set sail in Sharjah last month, each able to extract up 500 pounds  of floating debris from the...

Sharjah air pollution as bad as Beijing

In Beijing the air pollution is so bad that you sometimes can't see your hand in front of your face. Above the charts bad,...

Saudi’s 1km high Kingdom Tower needs 500,000 cubic meters of concrete

Saudi Bin Ladin Group (SBG) recently commissioned a Lebanese consulting firm to test the materials necessary to build the world's next tallest building in...

Treating snail fever and swollen bellies with prawns

Amit Savaia (left), went to Africa for three months to volunteer after finishing his first degree in science. With four other Israeli students from...

Say hello to healthier fast food delivery in the Middle East?

We love grandmothers and we love what they do, especially when they know how to cook well using traditional recipes. While we like to...

These guys think coffee can do a green roof good

We know that coffee can be both good and bad for our bodies, depending on who you ask. I know that ants are repelled...

Iraq’s leaning Hadba Tower is dangerously close to collapse

Wait a minute, there, Pisa, you're not the only contortionist building on the block! A beloved old minaret in a Mosul mosque that leans 8...

Dubai, Abu Dhabi ban high energy incandescent light bulbs

After July, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the world's largest oil producers, will no longer import high energy incandescent light bulbs. And...

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