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CES diaries 2009

Posted in consumer electronics, radio, tv, tagged , , , , , on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So, everybody’s being hit hard by global recession and there are hundreds of bloggers and tech news sites already breaking news from the show (which hasn’t officially started yet). So what’s the point of being in Las Vegas with 130,000 other gadget hounds when hotel prices are tripled, it’s a nightmare to get around and [...]

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out with the old?

Posted in radio, wifi, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This Grundig radio faithfully sat in my parent’s kitchen for the last 40 years or so. The tuning dial was fairly dodgy, making it really difficult to tune to another station then find radio 4 again, but that didn’t matter too much seeing as BBC radio 4 represents about 95% of my parent’s listening. (The [...]

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Radio France

Posted in architecture, radio, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is the view from inside Radio France, looking out over the inner circle. Henri Bernard was the architect behind this iconic 60′s building near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It’s now under a massive renovation program from the centre out. The architect allegedly got the inspiration from sitting by a pond and throwing a [...]

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Flashback

Posted in mobile, radio, tv, video, wifi, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve finally closed down my old blog, but found a post from back in 2006 that i couldn’t quite bring myself to throw away. It was the time when BT movio launched their DAB-IP mobile TV service, which closed down a year later due to several reasons: only one handset, one operator supporting it and [...]

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Olinda “social hardware”

Posted in radio, wifi, tagged , , , , , , on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I want to tell you about Olinda. The name was dreamed up by schulze & webb from an Italo Calvino novel (and by the way a Brazilian city). Olinda is fundamentally a way to help us think about what a future radio could be. Olinda is a physical prototype, it’s a way of explaining concepts [...]

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Radio Reborn update

Posted in event, radio, tagged , , , on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »

OK, I admit defeat. cridders put up a much better revue of the recent radio reborn conference than i could have conjured up. so all i will do is pick up on one of the slides from the RCS pres. It was a pic of the now playing data being fed through to a billboard. [...]

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visual radio

Posted in radio, sport, video, tagged , , , , , , on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

BBC radio Ulster has an engaging series of programmes called “Days Like This“, where people tell their stories about days that have made an impact in some lasting way. The Big Match below is an incredible piece of radio which was then beautifully animated. Not the sort of thing you can do for every programme, [...]

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wifi radio

Posted in radio, tagged , , on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Cambridge Consultants, the people who brought us hand held radar that can see through walls are bringing out a fun device to show off their low cost wifi radio reference platform. The Iona Cube only plays 4 radio stations, which is about right for the number of stations people actually regularly listen to. You select [...]

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