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Phones
T-Mobile UK Gets The HTC Touch HD2 Nov. 9
12:15AM Danny Allen | Current rumours suggest the HD2 won’t arrive in the US until early next year, probably on T-Mobile. But now that T-Mo UK has locked in November 9, will the uber WinMo 6.5 handset arrive sooner than first thought? Update: HD2 launch event in Taipei this week… More »
Gadgets
Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
2:00PM Wilson Rothman | Baby Gets Hit By Train, Strolls Away…There’s a Hole In My Heart That Can Only Be Filled By—Stem Cells?…Beware Bobbies Bearing BlackBerries…Science Figures Out Why We Break Out Bubbly More »
Design
Beautiful Glass Shard Spire Set To Dominate London Skyline
8:00PM Danny Allen | Feast your eyes on these latest visualisations of The Shard (aka London Bridge Tower), a 310-metre skyscraper currently under construction. When finished in 2012, it will be the tallest building in the UK, and one of the tallest in Europe. 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 »
Networks
Isolated U.K. Lifeboat Community Digs Its Own Fibre Optic Channel
6:00AM Jack Loftus | Power to the People: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, not content with their local service provider, recently took matters into their own hands and literally dug a ditch to install their own modest 100Mbps fibre optic Internet connection. More »
Toys
Top Gear’s James May To Construct Two-Story Lego House
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Jesus, we know you love Lego something fierce, but are you willing to live in a completely Lego house, like Top Gear star James May? More »
Weapons
First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen “Accidents”
2:15AM Sean Fallon | With gun laws being a little stricter in the UK, the weapon of choice for day to day murdering can often be found in the kitchen. That’s why the first anti-stab knife is now ready for sale there. More »
Vehicles
Tiny Oil Tanker Makes Pilots Better Trained, Slightly Awkward
1:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The Warsash Maritime Academy in the UK uses these $US245,000 miniature oil tankers to train its pilots—they’re incredibly difficult to drive, and simulate all kinds of different emergency situations, all while looking like a coin-operated children’s ride. More »
Entertainment
Congratulations Brits, You’re Getting Hulu
11:03PM John Herrman | And by September! At least, according to the Telegraph, who says that the company is working out the terms of a deal that will open up streaming for over 3,000 hours of American content, as well as content from Channel 4 and ITV. That the Hulu content wall will come down is obviously great news, but that ITV and 4 will finally be moving to a decent VOD solution is exciting in its own right. [Telegraph] More »
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