As if the 800m-tall Burj Dubai wasn’t tall enough, developer Nakheel has announced plans for an inner-city harbour development project, the centerpiece of which would be a building over a full kilometer in height.

A spokesman for Nakheel - the same company responsible for The World - cautiously commented on the project, according to the Daily Telegraph, by stating it would be over a kilometer tall, and that the whole project, comprising some 40 skyscrapers, would ultimately house 55,000 people and be workday home to another 45,000.

The project is set to take about 10 years to complete at a cost of “billions of dollars.” It seems like the next ridiculously-tall building milestone will be an entire mile. And the way things are going, that one will be in Dubai, too.

(you can thank me later for not making a joke about how, for Nakheel, The World is not enough)

Daily Telegraph

Ahhhh, now THAT is a cool castle set! Ok, sure, it doesn’t have a baseplate unifying the set. And LEGO’s box art obnoxiously includes a bushel of hay for that there horsie to eat, but come ON this set rocks! All sorts of details are throughout, with nice use of traditionally non-castle pieces (such as wheel wells as window / doorway arches). The buildings are hinged like Castle set buildings of yore and, as has been much discussed, there’s a whole frakkin’ LEGO turkey for your mini-figs to eat after a hard day’s work.

The set was revealed at BrickCon and will be available in January for about $100. How sweet it is…

The Brothers Brick

Supposedly due to pressure from internet rumors, Nintendo made a wee-early-in-the-morning (well, here in the U.S. anyway) press announcement to unveil the next version of their handheld gaming platform. Featuring two cameras (one inside the hinge and one on the outside / back), an MP3 player and web browser, the DSi will also allow gamers to browse for new software in an iPhone App Store-like environment. Nintendo calls this the DS Store. How they came up with the name, we’ll never know.

Yes, Nintendo is finally acknowledging that handheld gaming / internet convergence is a real thing. Which is good, too, because otherwise they might be going out of business soon (ahem).

The DSi’s screens are a bit bigger than the previous ones, at 3.25″, but they drain the batteries more as a result, offering only 3 hours on the brightest settings, as least according to pre-release reports.

Anyway, the DSi isn’t expected to ship until after Christmas, which is bad because that means you won’t be able to get it until after Christmas, but good because that means your Christmas list can include other fun stuff!

In a word: Probably not. Ok, fine, that’s two words. And actually, the 5800 has some pretty tasty specs: 3.2″ 640×360 touchscreen, 3.2MP camera with dual-LED flash, autofocus & Carl Zeiss lens, GPS, WiFi, a proper headphone jack and a microSD slot with an 8GB card tucked in there…unlocked for under $400 when it goes on sale.

Later on, there will be a Comes with Music version that’ll let you download songs “for free” from Nokia’s music service of the same name. Comes with Music is an unlimited-download service, but you’ll have to buy a new Nokia handset that supports it once a year, or the music will, in fact, stop playing.

Still, the 5800 has impressive specs. What nobody’s been able to do, though, to dethrone the iPhone as the leader of the smartphone / SuperFeaturePhone pack, is to combine all of those great specs with an actual application platform and the kind of business-necessary features that will really propel a particular product into that stratosphereic sweet spot.

Nokia

October is the PERFECT time to tell you about the SmartSwim bikini from Solestrom. Why? Because with the weather getting chilly, fast, it’ll be months before you see a sight like this in real life. The fact that the beads on the bikini ties and bra color-change to indicate the amount of harmful UV rays you’re being exposed to is a neat idea, but unless you think THAT girl is going to carry her color-coded cheatsheet with her to the beach while she’s laying around showing off her SmartSwim ($99) and other, um, paid-for-assets (more than $99), Solestrom might want to consider having them change color altogether.

Solestrom via DVICE

Uk game site MCV is reporting that Nintendo will announce a new version of the DS tomorrow, guaranteed (their word). Although no specifics are known, word on the street is that the new DS will incorporate PMP functionality (to play MP3s at least) and a camera. Cool.

MCV

While the rumored name has changed from ‘Urus’ to ‘Estoque’, this Lamborghini sedan concept has only gotten more exciting. Thanks to some French car website, we now have full-on shots of the car. It looks better from some angles than others, but like most Lamborghinis, I imagine to see one on the street will be sheer magic. Name and unknown price and availability date aside, sign me up.

(I’m wondering if the French website pulled the article as I can’t find it now)

Autoblog

Our source passed along more info today, namely that while most of what we presented before in terms of casting is supposedly solid at this point, Christopher Walken is still listed as being in negotiation. As are Jonah Hill, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Lee and Gene Wilder (!).

Robin Williams, Chevy Chase and Owen Wilson are set to cameo and, sadly, Rick Moranis has chosen not to attend this party, unlike the first party, when he invited clients instead of friends.

In my dream home, there is an arcade. And in that arcade, there will be a Pac-Man machine: The game so many of us became addicted to while listening to bad ’80s rock in mostly darkened arcades.

But unlike those spartanly-decorated amusement parlors of yore, my dream home arcade will definitely have some of these gorgeously simple Poufman seating pairs. Available in Black, Bordeaux or Turtledove (each one able to be topped / sided with the featured color while the other is White), Poufman includes both “round” (the Pac-Man one) and “cube” versions. Fit them together. And then fit those together with more sets for some geometrically entrancing seating layouts.

No word on pricing yet, but I can pretty much guarantee it’ll be more than a quarter.

UPDATE: The set (round and cube) are quoted at €998 so figure about $1,500 plus shipping.

Qayot via Boing Boing Gadgets

What’s not to like here?! It’s a crazy USB gadget! It’s a miniature volcano! Your $18 will get you this handsome (read: boring) cylinder full of faux volcano goodness. Once filled with water and “lava beads” and plugged into your computer via USB, you can turn on the high-intensity LED lighting and the fan to create a mini erupting volcano right there on your desk. As the instructions say, “Put half bag of lava beads will have better performance.” which, I’m pretty sure, is the same thing that the instructions say on real volcanos.

Gadget4All via Ubergizmo