Tag: london
40MBit/s fibre for London and Wales from BT
Do you live in Muswell Hill, London or Whitchurch, Cardiff? If so, you’ll be pleased as punch to hear that you’re soon going to be offered 40MBit/s broadband from BT. Of course, by “soon”, I actually mean “they’re going to send the engineers in soon”, so you won’t get your hands on it till early 2010 at the earliest. In the meantime, there’s always Virgin Media…
Oyster card hack released to the internet
Back in July, some researchers at the Radboud University in Holland discovered a way to hack the RFID chip used in a number of mass transit cards worldwide, including London’s Oyster card…
Boris wants London to be a "wifi city"
Boris Johnson, the inexplicable Mayor of London has offered some platitudes on making London a “wifi city”, making wireless internet available everywhere. Though he hasn’t offered any concrete plans or chucked any money at the idea yet, he seems keen to tie the idea in with the preparations for the 2012 Olympics, telling BBC London Radio “Let’s do it, beginning in Stratford in this fantastic area of opportunity”…
EA mistakes Finsbury Park for Venezuela, hijacks petrol station
Electronic Arts decided to disrupt North London’s rush-hour commuter traffic this morning by staging a mock hijack of a petrol station in Finsbury Park and giving away £20,000 worth of free petrol…
Google wants to bring Street View maps to UK, raises privacy concerns
Google would like to bring Street View maps to the UK, according to an enthusiastic spokesperson at the company, but their keenness has been overshadowed by privacy concerns…
YouTube Hits: Latest Sony advert, 'Foam City'
Last week we speculated on what the next advert for Sony would look like, with a video set in London being our top pick.
Sadly, Sony didn’t choose the indie London video maker to direct their latest campaign for their Handycam and Cybershot ranges, instead sticking with their tried and tested agency which created the three previous advertisements. This last one, ‘Foam City’, required 16 hours of filming in the centre of Miami, which was filled with 460 million litres of foam, enough to fill an Olympic…
YouTube Hits: unofficial Sony Bravia advert, shot in London
We’re a big fan of the Sony Bravia adverts, and it appears a YouTube user Kobayashi is too. The London-based animation director has created it with a budget of next-to-nothing, in the hopes it will attract Sony’s eye.
Keeping the bunny motif of the last (official) video, it shows off some of London’s most famous landmarks….
Shiny Video: London's Guinness Book of World Records' gaming character costumes attempt
This morning I waved my gamer-geek credentials high in the sky from London’s Millennium Bridge, where the Guinness Book of World Records staged an event, attempting to gather together the most people in one place dressed as game characters.
Take a look at the video above for some choice costumes, including the twenty-odd strong group of school kids dressed as Mario (one of them shouted out to me, as I was also dressed as Mario, “Mario! we’re your sons!”), Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog, a chilly-looking Lara Croft, Final Fantasy’s Rikku plus a whole lot more.
You’ll be pleased…
Replicate London in a pixel-art eBoy skin for your iPod Nano
I’ve been loving me some pixel-designin’ eBoy for a good few years now, so on happening across this iPod skin from the designers my first thoughts admittedly were ‘ooh, I wonder if I should buy a Nano so I can get a skin?’…
Padded lampposts coming to London, for the protection of stupid text messagers
This had better be an early April Fools joke or edgy and underground viral marketing campaign, or society’s in a much worse state than we previously thought.
The East End’s fashionably run down student heartland of Brick Lane is apparently about to get padded lampposts, in order to protect “inattentive” (STUPID) pedestrians from breaking their (STUPID) faces when bumping into them while texting their “M8s.”
