Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Motorists could be banned from leaving Britain

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Following on from the previous post about the plan to introduce the E-Borders travel security scheme, the Telegraph has a follow-up article ...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Travel will never be the same again

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Here it comes - it now appears that the travel plans and personal details of every holidaymaker, business traveler and day-tripper who leave...
Friday, March 13, 2009

How to survive the coming century

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Just how much 'mobility' will be enforced upon us through earth changes and global heating can never be truly estimated. The above i...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

MIT researchers make 'sixth sense' gadget

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Now here's something remarkable that might transform how information flows through daily lives. Check this out: US university researcher...
Monday, March 09, 2009

A Car Free 42nd Street - Can it be?

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The Institute for Rational Urban Mobility (IRUM) has a grand plan for 42nd Street. It wants to close the entire thing down to auto traffic ...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Towards a Nomadic Fortress

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One of my favourite blogsites - Subtopia - has a post called ' Towards a Nomadic Fortress ' (I'm a bit behind on this post!) whe...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Bus Rapid Transit v. Light Rail

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The people over at Worldchanging have conducted an interview with a team of researchers at the World Resources Institute (WRI) on what'...
Monday, March 02, 2009

Google Ocean

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Ocean is Google Earth's new addition to the company's virtual Earth model. And it looks set to make a splash! (sorry....) Goog...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Expanding connectivity characterizes our times

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Smartmobs has an interesting post referring to a NYT's article on bringing mobile communications into rural developing regions: A New Y...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

What is a Smart Grid?

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Adam Stein over at Worldchanging has done a good post on looking at the latest developments in moving towards a 'smart' energy grid...
Monday, February 23, 2009

Mobile tech is key for education

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According to Smartmobs , the 2009 Horizon Report identifies personal web technologies from mobile and GPS to cloud computing as the definin...

Car cockpit of the future

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Could this be the car-dash of the future? Research scientists have 'developed a novel car dashboard that functions as a 3-D display and ...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Mission One EV sport bike unveiled

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Ex-Tesla Motors employees have been involved in the creation of this new development in electric motors - a high-performance sports bike. An...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Hackers clone passports in drive-by RFID heist

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Some recent news on the security and viability of using RFID for mobility ID as in passports. A British hacker has shown how easy it is to c...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Humans will be implanted with microchips...?

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First we had surveillance, then we had sousveillance - now we have 'uberveillance'. This new 'trend', it seems, refers to su...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Biofuel flight

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It appears that Japan Airlines has become the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using a sustainable biofuel: The approximatel...
Monday, February 16, 2009

iPhones will win the war in Afghanistan

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Now here's an interesting development - or expose! It seems that NATO will be waging the war - for peace - with the iPhone: The head of ...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

UK cops' road accident reporting going paperless

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It now appears that the British police 'road accident reporting and mapping system' is to go paperless! Another step towards the dig...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Warning over 'surveillance state'

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BBC News are one of many UK media channels picking up on the recent story about the UK's push towards the Orwellian State: Electronic su...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Globally Networked Anarchism (#Griot)

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A decent post came out recently on the site MetaSecurity that discusses how web communities will continue to be an increasingly important p...