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Design
1:50AM Danny Allen | An international team of architects and designers has created this stunning centrepiece for London’s 2012 summer Olympics village. Dubbed The Cloud, three 122m towers would be joined by giant plastic spheres that serve as both observation decks and projection screens. More »
Spherical “Cloud” Structure Proposed For London Skyline
1:50AM Danny Allen | An international team of architects and designers has created this stunning centrepiece for London’s 2012 summer Olympics village. Dubbed The Cloud, three 122m towers would be joined by giant plastic spheres that serve as both observation decks and projection screens. More » 
Gadgets
London’s Cockney Slang ATMs Belong In A Guy Richie Film
7:20AM Sean Fallon | Over the next few months, a select group of East London ATMs will prompt customers with utter disregard for the King’s English. Instead, the machines will use a nearly indecipherable, rhyming cockney slang dialect. More »
Vehicles
Driverless Taxi System To Make Air Freshener Trees Obsolete
4:20AM Mark Wilson | We’ve heard about automated transport pods for years, but London’s Heathrow Airport has just opened the first complete system, a $US41 million network to take air travellers to their cars. More »
GPS
London Transport Authority To Test Tracking System That Stops Speeding FROM SPACE
8:45PM John Herrman | Transport for London is announcing a large-scale trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaption system, which uses preloaded road data and GPS to slow speeders. Basically, the future is everything you were afraid of. More »
Random Stuff
London Bar Pumps Gin and Tonic Into The Air: Please Breathe Responsibly
1:30AM Sean Fallon | Starting today and running through the 25th, A temporary bar dubbed “Alcoholic Architecture” is popping up in London offering a cloud of breathable gin and tonic to it’s patrons. More »
Design
Man-Made ‘Happy Clouds’ Float Over London
12:10AM Mark Wilson | While a cloud floating overhead is traditionally heralded as a bad omen, the 2057 “Happy Clouds” released over London were simply meant to “cheer people up a bit.” More »
Home
Calling All Wannabe Dr. Evil’s: Super Secret London Tunnel Lair For Sale
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Last Sunday we were writing about amazing underground diving rigs in the heart of New York City. It seems only fair that we jump across the pond this Sunday and write about a mile-long super secret tunnel lair below London that’s currently for sale, don’t you think? Asking price: A cool $US7.4 million. It sounds a bit much for an empty stretch of nothingness deep below the British streets, but wait until you hear about the history. Oh, the history! More »
Gadgets
London Getting Bomb-Proof, News-Delivering Trash Cans
1:20AM Adam Frucci | In London, public trash cans are hard to come by, as they’re an easy receptacle for bombs. Which makes it hard to throw things away properly! Now, the city is going to bring trash cans back, but they’re going to be big, hulking masses, totally bomb-proof and equipped with LCD screens to tell you the days news as you throw away your coffee cup. More »
Science
3D Virtual Heart So Real Doctors’ Own Hearts Go Pitter Patter
10:40AM Wilson Rothman | London’s Heart Hospital didn’t like the fact that they couldn’t see inside the hearts of patients—not while the patients were still alive and well, that is. So they hired Glassworks, an animation firm that specialised in music videos and TV shows, and asked them to build HeartWorks, the most realistic working 3D rendering of a human heart ever conceived. As you can see in the Reuters (ad-supported) clip above—and in the crazy raw footage after the jump—the doctors who are generally up to their ears in blood are thrilled to have a clearer (and cleaner) way to look deep into someone’s heart. More »
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