Moshi Moshi POP Phone
The Look
Blending new-age fun with a vintage feel, the POP gives us the class of the traditional phone of old but with all the portability of the 21st century. Coming in a veritable rainbow of colour options, this cheeky receiver plugs straight into your mobile via the 3.5mm jack (or computer, if you get a USB adaptor), and off you go.
The Feel
Finished with a rather luxuriant soft-touch texture rather than the shiny plastic of yesteryear, the POP is a pleasure to use. The sound quality is excellent and, of course, now you've got your hands free to play Angry Birds if the conversation gets tedious.
Overall
This is the handset for aspiring Don Drapers who might like to bring a splash of retro into their modern lives, or for someone who might like to stand out from the masses. But despite its jolly exterior, the POP is a quality piece of kit that should appease both hipsters and techsters alike.
Dh179
iFusion Smartstation
The Look
At first glance it's just a slightly minimalist office telephone. But no, look again - it's a clever docking station for your iPhone. And while docked (and charging), your mobile (alas, just iPhone) uses Bluetooth to connect to the iFusion, allowing you to make and receive calls using its own receiver or speaker phone, thus keeping those nasty radiation waves away from your ear.
The Feel
Although it feels weighty and sturdy on the desk, the iFusion just doesn't cut it when coupled with a design icon like the iPhone. While there is a handy USB port so you can link it to your computer for iTunes synching, after a while you'll be wanting to grab the phone yourself, making it just a rather expensive (and not terribly attractive) docking station.
Overall
With the iFusion, the landline becomes an iPhone accessory. But the question remains, why bother? Mobile phones gave us the freedom to swivel in the swivel chair as many times as we wanted without strangling ourselves on the telephone cord. This takes all that fun away again.
Dh657
Banana Phone Handset
The Look
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring ... Bananaphone! Oh, perhaps you don't know that song. To be honest, we're surprised it's taken this long for a phone tech developer to figure out that every person, at some stage in their lives, has pretended to talk into a banana. Well, now you can do it for real. Plug this into your handset via the 3.5mm jack and start going ape.
The Feel
While it may look hugely "apeeling" and perfect for monkeying around with, it's probably not the most ideal for full-time use, feeling unsurprisingly gimmicky and with the sound quality a little on the poor side.
Overall
Although it might not deliver much in the way of potassium, the Banana Phone is likely to bring laughs a plenty. Whip this out anywhere and you'll be king of the party. You might want to keep it at bay during important business meetings, however. Unless you work for Chiquita or Del Monte.
Dh73
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
Specs
Engine: Electric motor generating 54.2kWh (Cooper SE and Aceman SE), 64.6kW (Countryman All4 SE)
Power: 218hp (Cooper and Aceman), 313hp (Countryman)
Torque: 330Nm (Cooper and Aceman), 494Nm (Countryman)
On sale: Now
Price: From Dh158,000 (Cooper), Dh168,000 (Aceman), Dh190,000 (Countryman)
Mohammed bin Zayed Majlis
The Vines - In Miracle Land
Two stars
Results:
Men's 100m T34: 1. Walid Ktila (TUN) 15 sec; 2. Rheed McCracken (AUS) 15.40; 3. Mohammed Al Hammadi (UAE) 15.75. Men's 400m T34: 1. Walid Ktila (TUN) 50.56; 2. Mohammed Al Hammadi (UAE) 50.94; 3. Henry Manni (FIN) 52.24.
Teams
Punjabi Legends Owners: Inzamam-ul-Haq and Intizar-ul-Haq; Key player: Misbah-ul-Haq
Pakhtoons Owners: Habib Khan and Tajuddin Khan; Key player: Shahid Afridi
Maratha Arabians Owners: Sohail Khan, Ali Tumbi, Parvez Khan; Key player: Virender Sehwag
Bangla Tigers Owners: Shirajuddin Alam, Yasin Choudhary, Neelesh Bhatnager, Anis and Rizwan Sajan; Key player: TBC
Colombo Lions Owners: Sri Lanka Cricket; Key player: TBC
Kerala Kings Owners: Hussain Adam Ali and Shafi Ul Mulk; Key player: Eoin Morgan
Venue Sharjah Cricket Stadium
Format 10 overs per side, matches last for 90 minutes
Timeline October 25: Around 120 players to be entered into a draft, to be held in Dubai; December 21: Matches start; December 24: Finals
Dubai Bling season three
Cast: Loujain Adada, Zeina Khoury, Farhana Bodi, Ebraheem Al Samadi, Mona Kattan, and couples Safa & Fahad Siddiqui and DJ Bliss & Danya Mohammed
Rating: 1/5
Key facilities
- Olympic-size swimming pool with a split bulkhead for multi-use configurations, including water polo and 50m/25m training lanes
- Premier League-standard football pitch
- 400m Olympic running track
- NBA-spec basketball court with auditorium
- 600-seat auditorium
- Spaces for historical and cultural exploration
- An elevated football field that doubles as a helipad
- Specialist robotics and science laboratories
- AR and VR-enabled learning centres
- Disruption Lab and Research Centre for developing entrepreneurial skills
