technology

We love a good bit of technology here at Londonist even when we don’t quite know exactly how it works… iPods for example. How do you get so many tracks into such a small white box and then get so many small white boxes attached …

Is it just Londonist, or does the proposal to extend mobile phone coverage into Tube stations have some of the makings of a disappointing development? It would obviously be useful to be able to inform colleagues and loved ones of delays, previously the Underground has …

Parliament’s website was given a bit of a kicking today by the Hansard Society. The society, which exists to promote effective parliamentary democracy, declared that a parliamentary internet should be for the public, not the people who work there. The BBC quote the report: It …

We like thinking of alternative worlds here at Londonist – it kills time while we wait for the Zappa on Zappa tickets to go on sale. We’ve done the ‘if Hitler won the war’ (great transport system – lousy foreign policy) and ‘if Tony Blair …

There is something really beguiling about human Vs computer chess matches. Despite the main elements being a bloke who plays chess and a very complicated bit of software, these kind of matchups somehow transcend simple geekiness. Maybe we feel there’s something lurking in these tournaments …

The future is finally here people: they’re letting robots remove our internal organs, surely the jetpacks and the hoverboards can’t be too far behind? According to the report a patient at London’s Guy’s Hospital recently underwent live kidney transplant surgery, performed by a robot. We’re …

Researchers in Singapore have developed a system that allows users to touch chickens remotely over the Internet. We know what you’re thinking because we thought the exact same thing: Finally! If like us you buy a state of the art computer to work from then …

The votes have been counted, the results are in, and the winner has been announced. Nothing to do with tonight’s excitement of course, but something that actually matters to people – a survey of the most important inventions of the last 200 years. BBC Radio …

London: A hotbed of creativity, cutting edge technology and boundless innovation. No wonder then that the world’s first tea-making tracking software has been developed here. Are you always the one who makes the tea? Are you surrounded by colleagues, friends and family who shirk their …

Wi-fi is a marvellous thing. It allows all our dear readers, who we imagine are sophisticated early-adopter types who swan around with the latest PalmOne, Pocket PC or PowerBook, to read Londonist in whatever part of London is trendy today. But Wi-fi has a dark …