Tag: ENGLAND

Look we understand demands for privacy. We just find it ironic that citizens of Broughton (pronunciation: bak-wərd), a small village in a nation where CCTV cameras look, evaluate behavior, and sometimes speak at virtually every intersection, would block a Google Street View car on grounds of invasion of privacy. Seems to us that they've given up on that right a long, long time ago. Though the ...

If you have a GPS, you've surely noticed that, from time to time, it gives directions that are a little bit... wrong. Maybe it got the name of an exit incorrect, or told you to turn down the wrong way onto a one-way street, or maybe even told you to turn onto a road that didn't exist. You're certainly not alone in these findings, but we hope your wayward directions were less of an ...

File this one in the "Dumb Things People Do When They're High" category: a cannabis grower in England has been arrested after he posted videos of his crop on YouTube. According to the Metro UK, the man (age 25 in human years) even managed to post the clips under his real name. Officers had an idea something was up when they saw footage of the crops in his Bridgewater, Somerset home, which the ...

The Brits get all the cool stuff -- Queen Elizabeth II, The Sex Pistols... and now a rubbish truck that runs on rubbish (sort of). That's right: up in Huddersfield they've just unleashed a modded three-and-a-half ton Smith Edison Ford Transit garbage truck that tools around, picking up garbage, hauls it to a nearby Energy from Waste power station and recycling center which then burns the 'bage ...

If Vision Express was looking for some attention, it just got it. A recent study by the optician chain found that 60-percent of Britons had avoided an eye test over the past year, with that number rising to 79-percent in Scotland. Phillip Hyde, dispensing optician and head of professional services at the firm, was quoted as saying that "even a marginally short-sighted person sitting on a sofa ...

If you spend a lot of time – maybe too much time – trolling around social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, you may forget to drop the occasional line to your family and friends who aren't connected to the Internet. Save yourself a trip to the post office with Touchnote, an English company that lets you upload images to its Web site, craft a message with clever dialog or ...

The Daily Mail reports that the British transit firm C2C has begun to implement a high-tech film that serves to block cell phone signals in specially designated passenger train cars. The policymakers at C2C, and those at plenty of other transit companies besides, have marked certain train cars as "quiet" for some time now, but have had trouble policing those cars' restrictions on cell phone ...

Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, visited with Google staff at the company's UK headquarters in London, News.com.au reports. In honor of its distinguished guest, Google UK customized the homepage 'Google' logo, replacing the second 'g' with a silhouetted profile of the Queen and topping the final 'e' with an image of a crown. In addition to this online homage, the ...

We'd swear this had to be some sort of spoof on the impeccable James Bond, but sadly enough, the whole thing is true. A secondhand Nikon Coolpix camera which sold on eBay for a mere £17 ($30) turned out to be a real bargain once its new 28-year old owner completed his first image dump. Along with decidedly decent snaps from his US vacation, he also found a number of "top secret" images, ...

@eng Nope, we aren't sensationalizing anything -- that creature you see above really has made the streets of Liverpool its home. According to an in-the-know tipster, it's reportedly going to be stalking citizens and making all sorts of ruckus, possibly the kind involving pyrotechnics. So what's with England and these totally random stunts? First a full-sized UFO crashes in Potters Fields Park, ...

Here's your afternoon dose of cuteness, ready or not. David McGoran's Heart Robot has made its way into London's Science Museum, and for good reason. This intelligent robot not only possesses a face with moving eyes and an external heart that blinks depending on what's happening, but it actually encourages people to hug and cuddle it like a real human. Seen as being "among the first robots to ...

For the love of all that's humane in this world, it's about time someone stepped up and put an end to this lunacy. Okay, so maybe that's overstating things a bit, but we're joyous nonetheless to hear that the Kent County Council in southeast England has "become one of the first in the UK to ban mosquito gadgets from its buildings." Here's a refresher: So-called mosquito tones are high-pitched ...

Flying saucers? Alien encounters? It may sound cliché to seriously consider visits from little green men descending from saucer-shaped spacecraft, but the British government is releasing first-person accounts from people who have claimed to see unidentified flying objects. Among these encounters are indeed alleged visits from space dudes in green. A spokesman for the National ...

The Travelodge hotel chain in the United Kingdom is rolling out a new test program aimed at helping people get a good night's sleep. The method for giving guests a better snooze experience? A futuristic set of pajamas made from a material called Dermasilk, which is supposed to feel like a second skin. According to a statement by Travelodge, the Dermasilk sleep suit "allows the skin to breathe, ...

Every high school student's worst nightmare is about to come true. No, not the one about showing up naked to class -- the one where your parents and your school can track your every move. British company Trutex has come up with a way to sew satellite-based tracking devices into school uniforms. Trutex argues that 59 percent of British parents are "interested" in purchasing the GPS-enabled duds ...