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Daimler’s new Smart ForTwo Ed electric vehicle is getting some real-world testing on London streets by a handful of agencies, companies and the Metropolitan Police to demonstrate the advantages of zero-emission driving.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
The genious Rolling Bridge is an award-winning design by Thomas Heatherwick, installed over the Grand Union Canal in London. It looks like a regular canal footbridge whilst horizontal, but curls up like a grub when boats need to pass. Monday, 25 August 2008
Troika art and design studio have come up with an incredible animated sculpture for British Airways in Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. ‘Cloud’ is a five-meter long work of art that is covered in 4,638 flip-dots that can be individually programmed to create stunning visual effects. The flip-dots also generate the sound of old airport signs that is so reminiscent of travel. Friday, 15 August 2008
London’s Metropolitan Police have launched a trial website service, thanks to Boris Johnson, that aims to highlight the city’s trouble areas. You can search by postcode to narrow down an area or view the map in its entirety to see how the different boroughs compare on crime. Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Designer Shiu Yuk Yuen has developed an ultra-compact umbrella that will easily fit in a trouser pocket, but for this convenience you must get your creative juices flowing and improvise your own canopy when it starts to rain. Discarded newspapers, cardboard or plastic bags are ideal. The umbrella is yet another design to take advantage of recycling but is best suited for cities like London where the weather is very unpredictable and free newspapers are readily available. The operation is quite simple as you can see in the photo below. From one end of the tubular casing extends a stick and handle, from the other comes the support structure and a screw-in spike that secures your improvised canopy. It was designed for short distances like the walk from your tube/subway station to your home or office but can also be used for longer distances by using clips at each end of the umbrella to stabilize it further. This design sure would suit people like me who hate lugging bulky things like umbrellas around with them.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Researchers at Newcastle University have developed a system that could replace increasingly vulnerable passwords and PINs with personal pictures that you draw onto a screen. They have proven to be easier to remember, yet over 1,000 times more secure and offer more personal, creative interaction. The new software, called Background Draw-a-Secret (BDAS), has been developed as a security feature for the latest handheld computers and mobile phones. It is being displayed at London’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition which opened yesterday. It is designed so that the computer remembers the number and order of ‘pen’ strokes used to construct your unique image. This allows far more complex passwords to be formed than with traditional alpha-numeric security codes. The picture passwords will take longer to setup initially, but the researchers are confident that users will find them easier to use day to day. Source: Thursday, 22 May 2008
A giant telescope presented as an art exhibition, links London and New York, allowing views in real-time of life across the Atlantic.
The installation is credited to the work of British artist Paul St George who, in conjunction with Italian Internet provider Tiscali, created this amazing, interactive display. According to Tiscali, the transatlantic tunnel is really a transatlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras. The project is based on a fanciful, fictional history where the invention is known as the Telectroscope . The tale involves the artist’s supposed great-grandfather Alexander Stanhope St George, who even has his own fake Wikipedia page. Imagine the Telectroscope to be like a 19th century webcam, minus the sound, allowing people to see great distances and across time zones in real-time. The 37-by-11-foot brass-and-wood telescope is placed near Tower Bridge on the banks of the Thames with the other end at Fulton Ferry Landing by the Brooklyn Bridge. The project was underwritten by a grant from the British government and private sponsorship. The project cost about £400,000/$800,000 The Telectroscope is open to the public and is on display 24 hours a day until June 15. Use is free in New York but costs £1 in London. Photo credit: cnn.com |
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