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London Underground Alarm for Android wakes you up earlier if there’s network delays

Friday, Dec 9, 2011Friday, Dec 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

This seems to be a cunningly clever app to make sure that you get to work on time by waking you up earlier if there are delays on your route.

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portable / transport

Garmin Edge 200 bike computer offers cut price GPS tracking for cyclists

Monday, Aug 22, 2011Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - by Pete Railton

If your budget won’t stretch to their snazzy, high-end bike computers like the Garmin Edge 800, the company are offering a new cut-down GPS unit, the Garmin Edge 200.

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transport

There are now One Billion cars polluting the planet

Friday, Aug 19, 2011Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

The number of stinky vehicles burning up non-renewable resurces on the roads across the world has now passed the 1 billion-unit mark, according to research from WardsAuto.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / transport

Lost in Lewisham? Here’s five great Android UK travel apps

Monday, May 23, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

There’s thousands of excellent travel apps available for Android-toting folks on the move, and we’ve tried out an awful lot of them. Here’s five of our current favourites:

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stuff / transport

Now this is what we call luxury coach travel: Osaka to Tokyo by Willer Express

Tuesday, Apr 26, 2011Monday, Apr 25, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

In Britain, travelling by coach is usually a relentlessly grim experience, with the majority of the trip spent staring out at the never ending grey concrete and traffic queues, while …

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Google / transport

Google Doodle pays tribute to Richard Trevithick, steam loco inventor

Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 - by mike s

Honoured today with a Google doodle is Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833), a Cornish inventor and mining engineer who created the first high pressure steam engine.

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stuff / transport

NASA, Google and YouTube honour Yuri Gagarin and the Space Shuttle

Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

While us Brits were throwing disco moves to the Detroit Spinners “Working My Way Back to You” at number 1 in the poptastic charts, NASA were busy blasting the first space shuttle into the …

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mobiles / transport / web

TfL looks to offer wi-fi at 120 tube stations [Update: it’s delayed]

Monday, Mar 28, 2011Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Keen to get it all working in time for the 2012 Olympics, TfL have invited telecoms companies to tender for wi-fi provision at up to 120 stations across the network …

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Android / computing / transport

SAAB pioneers an ‘open innovation’ Android OS for its cars

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Swish Swedish car maker SAAB has announced that it will be embracing the Android OS for its forthcoming in-car communication and infotainment system.

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computing / portable / transport

Robots rolls into cafe, orders scone to go

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Seen rolling along the streets of Mountain View, California is this little stick robot that is filmed popping into a cafe to buy a snack.

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transport

Nokia’s bike-powered mobile phone charger hits the UK

Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It’s been pedalling very slowly towards us – Nokia’s bike-powered mobile phone charger was in fact supposed to have wobbled our way by the end of 2010 – but it’s …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / transport

London Cycle Hire Widget adds LiveView for second screen, two wheel heaven

Thursday, Dec 2, 2010Friday, Dec 3, 2010 - by mike s

What do you get when you cross one of our fave Android transport apps – Cycle Hire Widget – with Sony Ericsson’s intriguing second screen gadget, the LiveView? By the …

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / transport

Apple iPhone: four great UK transport apps

Friday, Nov 26, 2010Monday, Nov 22, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 5 Comments.

There’s no longer the need for travelling types to unfurl flapping maps and do battle with baffling transport maps thanks to a cavalcade of excellent transport apps available on the …

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transport

Hello Earth… astonishing view from the ISS

Tuesday, Nov 16, 2010 - by mike s

This stunning photo shows astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing out over the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).

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transport

The Sinclair C5 electric vehicle is back as the X-1!

Friday, Nov 5, 2010Friday, Nov 5, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

Sir Clive Sinclair’s first stab at cheap, clean personal transport, the Sinclair C5 which was released 25 years ago, was so far ahead of its time that it was met with …

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