Like benevolent, mechanical Tremors worms, a team of eight Tunnel Boring Machines are inching their way across London and leaving neatly packed railway tunnels in their wake. Instead of, you know, all that death, mayhem and Kevin Bacon.
You stand in front of the digital billboard as a high-definition camera scans your face. Behind the scenes, facial recognition software tries to figure out if your male or female. If you’re the latter, you’ll be shown an ad informing you of how women have their choices limited each and every day. If you’re the former, well, no ad for you.
In our on-demand, everything whenever we want it world, TiVo and DVR feel so limiting. The boxes record what you tell them to, but if you don’t think of it in advance, you’re outta luck. Now there’s a box that records everything for days and days and days.
After witnessing a fellow train passenger swiping an unattended iPhone, one brave chap decided to take action — in the form of video taping and yelling. Oh, the yelling. This could not be more hilarious and silly and proper and kind.
Jemima Packington was born with the gift of foresight. Unfortunately, that future-vision is only legible by reading the positions of thrown asparagus. That’s right — she’s an asparamancer and she just foretold the births of two royal British heirs and Britain’s imminent trouncing of the rest of the world in the 2012 Olympics.
Those of you with arachnophobia may want to turn away from your monitors. This enormous inflatable spider puppet was built by UK artist Tim Davies for street and carnival performances. Details are still scarce on its inner workings or controls but Davies mentions that the legs are “air-powered.” Video!
Remember that time you carried that box home and it was like sooo heavy? Yeah, shut up. The quarry where some of Stonehenge’s original rocks came from has been discovered, and the people of 5000 years ago dragged them 257km.
David Cameron – he who loves iPad games and considered banning social networks during the riots – has reportedly commissioned a purpose-built iPad app to help him track stats like crime, unemployment, medical waiting lists and more. And interestingly, it could be made public.
A cable company in the UK had a bit of a snafu with a super strict censoring system in its TV guide over the weekend. They were asterisking Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens, the soccer team Arsenal, the movie Hancock and any other name or title that had a penis or butt related word in it.
What do electric sheep dream of? My guess would be fields of lights like this — except, you know, edible.
