Tag: london
Porsche raging against London Congestion Charge – sets up web site to FIGHT THE POWER
No doubt with half a mind on the masses of Porsche Cayennes currently cruising between Starbucks and Wagamamas over in fashionable West London, Porsche has called for an official judicial review of recently announce changes to London’s Congestion Charge.
“Gas guzzling” cars – like, say, the ludicrous Porsche cayenne, which is the stupidest car to ever drive within 50 miles of London – will be hit by a new £25 charge from this October, a tax intensified by London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s removal of the exemption for people who live inside the C-Charge zone…
London to get free hire-bikes, just like Paris
Late last year, I visited Paris and was introduced for the first time to the Velib system of bicycle hire, with Parisians able to pick up a bike, ride across the city, and deposit it at any of the docking stations spread around the city. Now London is copying the idea.
Kiddie version of Guitar Hero: Tomy's Guitar Rockstar toy
Kids getting jealous of you not letting them play Guitar Hero II or the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker? I suggest you lock them in their bedrooms until March, when this Guitar Rockstar from Tomy is released, then let them run wild with the rockin’ riffs.
Spied at the London Toy Fair today…
Generate your own London headline with the Evening Standard generator
Meet my new favourite site – an Evening Standard newspaper headline generator!
Who knew that train wardens were so hung up on ensuring you have the latest iPod? Or that Billie Piper’s…
VIDEO: Reporting from the show floor at ATEI 2008
In case you don’t know, ATEI is a massive trade show for the arcade and amusement world. It’s mainly for businessmen to go to and do serious business, but there’s one very good reason everyone should register and attend – loads of arcade machines all set to freeplay!
So I went. And did a video. It’s a bit long, but you get to see lots of people having fun playing new games, including SEGA’s ultra-odd floor-based-TV game UFO Stomper.
Here are the edited highlights:
The sensational Smoker Bell for those of you who continue to ignore government health warnings
Poor cool people. They all have to stand out on the pavement like Big Issue sellers in order to enjoy a cigarette these days, getting their hair wet and catching colds while bitching about all the uncool people who are still sitting inside.
But no more! This genius device is an outdoor pod, designed to keep fashionable hairstyles intact even during the most furious winter weather. It even has a little table for putting bottles of fashionable and little-known East European beers on while enjoying taking half an hour of the end of your life.
Be the king of the jungle with Jac Zagoory's animal staplers at Liberty
Staplers are a necessity for every office desk, mine resides just to the right of my computer monitor. However I’m willing to bet that none of ours come even close to Jac Zagoory’s unusual animal designs.
Hailing from New York, but being stocked in London’s Liberty store, the functional staplers are made from cast pewter…
Opinion: Oyster-enabled Nokia handsets are the right kind of mobile convergence
A confession: I don’t have an Oyster card, being a hick from the sticks who still has to buy physical tickets when travelling into London. So the idea of swiping your way through tube barriers rather than holding up dozens of commuters as you squash your malfunctioning piece of card into the slot already feels space-age to me.
UK Apple fans to be treated to our own Black Friday sale, for tomorrow only!
It may not be on par with America’s Black Friday sale last week, but currently the UK is going through some sort of pre-holiday sales-blitz, with most high street stores offering at least 20% off their wares. It’s getting to the point where I’m refusing to pay full-price now, I’m just waiting for the day when I throw a diva strop in Sainsbury’s, horrified that their skim milk isn’t discounted!
Thankfully Apple fanboys won’t have to start throwing diva strops anytime soon, as the big Jobs has kindly ordered a discount on a huge range of Apple…
Goodbye Japan, hello Tottenham Court Road: Samsung opens first UK store in London
They may’ve ceased trading in Japan, but Samsung’s beefing up their UK presence, and have just opened their first high-street store here in London.
Up until now, they’ve only ever sold goods in other retailers, or online, but this just-opened store on Tottenham Court Road marks…
