You know what’s overrated? Sunlight. That’s why we were excited by Amsterdam’s decision to spend $US14.4 billion to build a giant underground city in the Dutch capital. But what happened?
This 3km tunnel running on solar power just switched on today. It’s part of the Paris to Amsterdam line and the first in Europe, promising to save a ton of energy that would otherwise be wasted during the trip.
Need proof of Twitter’s power? This heart-warming story is it. Of course, old school companies’ values such as KLM airline’s willingness to help—and the Guinness book of world records’ keenness to always be where the action is were the deciding factors in today’s lovely little tale of the world’s highest-altitude dance party.
Wi-Fi, sweet deliverer of information and porn, may be killing trees. A study by a Dutch university suggests that Wi-Fi radiation causes weird abnormalities in trees. This is disturbing, as we love both Wi-Fi and trees.
Armed with either an iPhone or Android, hundreds of Amsterdam residents are expected to converge on Dam Square tomorrow at 2pm for the first ever augmented reality flashmob. Darth Vader, Superman and various other characters will be making super-special appearances.
It may be lagging three inches behind Panasonic’s big telleh, but Mitsubishi’s whopping great screen is OLED. Or should that be ZOLED? It was unveiled at ISE 2010, with Number 6 and Boomer dressy-likeys lending a hand.
Another flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, bearing the same flight number as the flight that featured the Christmas Day Firecracker pants guy from Nigeria, has been the target of some kind of “bathroom disruption”. Updated.
What do you do with three abandoned sewage treatment silos? If you’re the city of Amsterdam, you convert them into absolutely incredible climbing towers.
