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Gizmodo: Dubai Hotelier Hasn't Heard of Flip-Flops, Plans to Refrigerate Entire Beach [Dubai]
Tech Blog: First Refrigerated Beach in the World to be Built in Dubai
Newlaunches.com: Dubai building the first refigerated beach
DVICE Atom Feed: World's first refrigerated beach cools your toes, warms the planet
Dubai Hotelier Hasn't Heard of Flip-Flops, Plans to Refrigerate Entire Beach [Dubai]
Gizmodo —
... Top people! I can only assume that this means the hotel's patronage will be strictly limited to previous winners of Top Chef and/or America's Next Top Model. The hotel is set to open next year, or possible in early 2010. [Daily Mail] ...
First Refrigerated Beach in the World to be Built in Dubai
Tech Blog —
... read that right. This computer powered, located next to a Dubai hotel, "will protect guests' precious feet by piping cold air through a series of tubes underneath the sand, which will suck enough heat from the blistering surface to offset the beaming sun and 110F temperatures."
The hotel, which is due to open late next year or early 2010, will be controlled by thermostats linked up to computers and feature a cooled swimming pool.
[via Gizmodo - Dailymail]
Dubai building the first refigerated beach
Newlaunches.com —
... is due to open in late 2009 or early 2010.The normally blazing sand is to be controlled with a computer-linked system of coolant-filled pipes to keep at-ease temperatures. Visitors wishing to beat the 50 degree Celsius heat wave could take a plunge in a cooled swimming pool or simply feel the gentle wind generated by huge blowers. Bosses hope the gimmicks at the hotel, due to open late next year or early 2010, will attract some of the 800,000 Brits who visit Dubai each year. Via
World's first refrigerated beach cools your toes, warms the planet
DVICE Atom Feed —
... 122°F heat common in the Persian Gulf emirate. The plan, says hotel founder Soheil Abedian, is to keep the sand cool enough to lie on, adding that "this is the kind of luxury that top people want."
It isn't exactly the most environmentally friendly approach to luxury — you'd have to go to nearby Abu Dhabi for a greener lifestyle — but what did you expect from the country bringing you the world's largest fake wind turbine?
Via The Daily Mail
