Last week it snowed. A lot. So much so that Britain, in time old fashion, began to shut down. Cars, trains, and planes threw in the towel, companies closed their doors, the Army was called in, Marshall Law imposed, and Lord Adonis, the secretary of state for transport, was forced to answer some pretty tough questions on the levels of salt possessed by each county council. Yep, that’s right, the failure of this government to adequately prepare for cold weather had become a political conspiracy on a par with the Chilcot enquiry. Only in Britain.
On the other hand, if it hadn’t snowed, we wouldn’t have seen this video of a man purposefully driving into frosty the snowman.
Now despite 63 pages of solid ‘news’ about snow the Guardian did manage to squeeze in a quarter page article on Augmented Reality. Thankfully this was titled seven things you need to know about Augmented Reality, reminding us that it has been a hot topic for quite some time now. Which makes it all the more surprising that we haven’t really seen anything that impressive recently. Until this.
What else? Well we have been titilated by this LED screen from Samsung, amazed by the incredible amount of work that goes into making world cup footballs, and amused with this review of the Best fails of 2009.
We’ve also decided to go to the event you are not a gadget. Why don’t you come along and say hi.