Tag: london
Watch the Chemical Brothers fire lasers at Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square
It's a meeting of British icons: the Chems meet the Admiral at last night's Trafalgar Square gig in London. I swear I saw the grand old statue shake a leg too. The loose tech angle is, well, lasers (and the N73 used to record them).
Watch below, then click over the jump for some more over-excited mobile footage from the landmark gig.
High-speed Eurostar trains hit the UK… at last!
It’s taken a while, but the high-speed Eurostar track in the UK has finally been christened, cutting the time between London and Paris to 2hrs 3min. The new track will allow trains to zip along at 199 miles per hour on this side of the Channel.
Video Games Live returns to London, hurrah!
Keep October the 22nd clear in your diaries, London-based people, as Video Games Live is swinging our way once again.
Hosted by co-creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, it’s an amazing night featuring members of the Philharmonia Orchestra playing tunes from game soundtracks such as Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Warcraft, and Halo…
Barclaycard contactless credit card signs up 1,000 London shops
The Oyster travelcard system has been a big success in London (i.e. it’s not been a colossal cock-up like most public service technology projects), and now Barclays is extending the idea to paying for stuff other than tube journeys.
It's not quite a green-painted toe, but these Big Lebowski Urban Achiever Action Figure sets sure are Dude-worthy
Whether you love the film or hate it, any opportunity to drink White Russians is sure to be a welcome reprieve from this ‘blistering’ summer we’re facing in London. So, if you can make your way down to ye olde London Towne on the 30th of August, you’re in for a treat worthy of the finest Dude around. Yep, the Big Lebowski Festival is coming to town!
Sadly I’m in Berlin that weekend covering all things IFA for you, so I’ll have to contend with one of these Big Lebowski Urban Achiever Action Figure Sets when they’re released come October, for $33.99. I’m sceptical about whether a pair of bowlers can be classed as action figures…
London is the Facebook capital of the world!
That’s right, us Cockneys can lay claim to being the most work-shirking connected people on the planet, with news that London is now the biggest city network on Facebook.
Londoners love their gadgets, and Brits spent £7.8bn overall
New research from GfK shows that Brits spent over £7.8 billion on consumer electronics between May 2006 and April 2007. That equates to an average £311 for each household.
Londoners easily top the pile, spending at least twice as much on gadgets as any other region, with £2.2bn spent, or £431 per household.
Those in the south west of England spent the least, at just £195m, or £245 per household.
Average increase in spending on the previous year was 10.6%, proving that we’re still happily spending more on consumer electronics products than ever before.
New London skyscraper dubbed 'The Walkie Talkie', but we think 'Nokia 6230' more apt
The skyscraper which has been threatening to be plonked upon our modern East-End London scenery has just been approved by the City of London, and it’s already been given an ‘affectionate’ nickname – ‘the Walkie Talkie’, by the skyscraper-equivalent of a Trainspotter, SkyscraperNews.com.
Already kicking up a fuss, with the English Heritage claiming it’s got an ‘attention seeking form’, it will use 21 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year, which is actually 10% less engery than an average building of similar size, surprisingly…
BT Openzone available to London's waterfront Wi-Fi users
Large scale Wi-Fi network specialist MeshHopper has opened up its London “Thames Online” network to BT Openzone users.
A huge chunk of the central London Thames area, from Millbank down to Greenwich, now has Wi-Fi access for anyone registered with BT Openzone or any of the service’s online partners.
Five ways London can improve on the US Apple iPhone launch
Ok, so that bloke might have queued for five days in New York. But it was in June. I’d like to see him pull of the same trick in freezing wintry London when we get our iPhone launch. So come…
