technology

Try your hand at a couple of Christmassy science ‘pub quizzes’ at the British Library and the Book Club.

If the Oxford Street Christmas lights seem a little pedestrian this year, you might enjoy a visual extravaganza taking place in central London tonight. The Vienna tourist board want to transform their city’s image from one of string quartets, schnitzels and Strauss Waltzes to something …

A mobile app purchased by around 100,000 people is currently crippled after Transport for London withdrew a key data stream. The journey planner XML API was killed without warning a week ago, apparently in the face of a security threat. Two prominent travel applications (London …

Cosplay record breaking at MCM Expo 2008 by internets_dairy The geek will inherit the Earth, or at least London, this month. Having grown steadily over the years London Games Festival 2010 is the biggest videogame culture event to take place in the capital in, well… …

The latest exhibition in the BL’s tiny Folio Society Gallery is, like all the best innovations, really simple. Fifteen recent British inventions are arranged around the gallery with short information panels. And that’s it. Inventing the 21st Century will take you 10 minutes at most, …

It’s unlikely to knock the Angry Birds off their perch or out-sell the various Scrabble clones, but a simulated stethoscope for iPhone has certainly captured the pulse (admit it, you’d have used that pun, too). The mobile app was designed by UCL researcher and Wired …

Remember the Star Trek holodeck, where off duty officers could slip into a Sherlock Holmes adventure or visit a Klingon brothel (only for the whole thing to turn evil…every time)? Well how far are we from such things? A long way, probably. But that’s not …

Looking for some steamy industrial fun this weekend? We choo-choo-choose this replica of George Stephenson’s Rocket, which is currently doing the rounds (literally) in Kensington Gardens. The ‘Mocket’, as we shall dub it, takes passengers on a short ride around part of the gardens for …

From the archive: a map showing everything ever invented in London (and if it’s not on there, we want to know).

DigiFest is a series of interactive events taking place at the Dana Centre next week exploring the biggest issues facing our techno-enhanced society. If you haven’t visited the centre before we highly recommend it; you can participate in some experiments and listen to some of …