One

I see what they are trying to do with the name but it's going to be just as confusing as calling a train operator "First" ... there already is an xbox one in common parlance.

It also suggests (along with one controller in the pic) that it's meant for loners - but then would you want to invite people to your house if you had that breeze block on show?!

Perhaps the gov't asked them to do it to stop people meeting in houses now the pubs are shut so they can monitor all comms! :p

Although it will have some downsides it's going to be mostly good.

There are always neighsayers of new tech which are often right before it's been developed.

eg. When satnav came out it was worse than what was before (a map) and so quite pointless.

But then introducing detailed traffic info into it and suddenly it's much better.

What interests me most about this is the feature that a car can take information from one car, store it and then pass on to one further up the road.

That's now invented a decentralised communications network - When they add the ability to short text over it it would could help stop any ISP censorship they have planned for the internet as people could hop their data from car to car.

Would it may be easier on motorways if the streetlights communicated with the cars though?

ooh, I actually like the looks.

But still... the engine is in the wrong place!

I agree with the poster above though that this seems just like a plain car review and not done from the techie angle I'd expect from el'reg.

Wouldn't it have been dark where he was when he won?

That's not a picture of him winning at all - If that were on the BBC he'd be forced to do an apology!

But then I think if it was here then it would be a little less arrogant sounding and more gracious in victory.

ah I loved dizzy!

Wasn't one of them on the speccy called Kwik Snax? I remember the badly digitised speech and the Dizzy band playing on startup, but was an entirely different game on the C64?

yay!

It's about time ... I'm sure we've all invented this when we've been stuck in a jam.

Mix it with high-res photography and then play it back in virtual reality then not only does it save time on the motorway but the investigators get a view from a lot closer to the time it happened and not hours later when it might be raining.

My other idea would be to get a lane-wide bit of sticky-tape and then use it to pick up all the small bits of debris for later inspection which can be placed back in the right place when unrolled but then I guess if the laser is good enough this isn't needed.

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Interesting (to me anyway) that the PC is a few months OLDER than the BBC Micro!

I was one of the Vic20 "odd folk"

By the time you've loaded the app and the GPS has got where you are it'll be quicker just to swipe your NFC card/phone.

Might work well in the pub though as you're there for a longer time

Sensors

Why not just put in a proximity sensor which stops the door opening too far

... or if it's too much hassle to stop the door get it to spray water in the crotch of your stupid passenger who thinks it's fine to bash the door as "it's only a scratch"

Very very very

So the very very very very very stupid scheme is now only very very very very stupid.

But just like your articles on climate change, no-one will really pick up on this until maybe there is some sort of scandal.

I wouldn't expect a reply on their methodology of creating the number - they know it's plucked from thin air, and know we know that - but their core vote doesn't know or care - they just see the "reduced by 2 million" and so think that it's only 2 million that have to register and so that probably won't include them so all is hunky dory.

PAYG TV

be good if you don't want to get your TV on credit... just buy a new piece every month until you have one of a decent size.

As the definition of decent size grows though, you'll never end till it fills your wall.

Sounds Very Very Scary

Are they really using the word 'cyber' in their name of the office? ...really? have they any clue?

hospitals

"computer equipment falling on top of the patient" ... not only do you have to worry about mrsa and c-diff, you have to worry about falling machines too. No wonder so many people die in hospitals than anywhere else.

Yeah, right

I used to get this excuse every day when I had an ebay shop.

"Sorry my kid must have bid on it and I've not replied to any of your emails for 3 weeks as I had a family funeral"

Rarely did it get any more inventive than that and made me quite disappointed with the state of the nation.

bargain

12grand is nout - schemes like this will normally cost 12million once the consultancy is done and backhanders, tax and tax management and reviews and tax accountancy and health and saftey and tax on the health and saftey and managers to manage the tax on the health and safety and tax on the managers.... paid, don't they?

Google

Perhaps they search in the little google box that's part of the 'vodafone live' page when trying to get to proper google or their other services?

Not on N85

Says unsupported on N85 too.... why couldn't they just put it in the iplayer application, surely that can't be hard!

Doesn't seem to be somewhere I can enter my TV licence number with pride either to prove I'm not some sort of scrounger or foreigner.

Gaffer tape

Armed with my oyster card and some gaffer tape I shall shortly be able to pay for travel with my SonyEricsson - beat that nokia.

Private voting

The main problem with postal votes is that it's not private!

There was always a discrepancy with people saying they are hardened labour supporters but voting tory when they got to the booth.

If they are voting at home there's a chance their partners/other family might see it or ask to see it - yes, you can say "no, it's private" but then that might start an argument, so they vote labour and tick the rest of the families forms while their at it to make sure they don't put the "wrong" answer.

ken's team are playing dirty - look at the thing today about saying boris would ban the koran so I wouldn't be suprised if they are going round to peoples houses and "supervising" the completion of forms or other such thing!

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evil

whilst I would love to boycott ebay for both buying and selling, I can't... and neither can anyone else.

I used to be a powerseller but my business collapsed when paypal decided to close my account, followed by ebay suspending me because of this.

Took me over 2 weeks to get any sort of response to find out why - and then each email took 3 days to reply to and kept getting in a standard response loop.... they don't care and don't need to care (apart from when I got the Financial Ombudsman on to them!)

Everytime they put up charges or impose conditions people say they will boycott - but it's those people that lose out - ebay/paypal aren't going to notice 1 jot!

I expect these paypal only measures will go the same way - some people will moan, but it'll go ahead anyway.