Ride The Tube, Surf The ‘Net?

If you’ve ever ridden the Tube in London, you’ll notice a pleasant silence aboard the cars. Since the trains run mainly underground, cellphone signals can’t penetrate. However, London’s mayor wants to change that for the 2012 Olympics.

Mayor Boris Johnson wants to install mobile base stations and wi-fi hotspots so people can use their phones. He also promises there would be quiet carriages on the trains where mobile phones would be banned.

“The truth is that I’m on the side of progress if we possibly can do it,” said Johnson. “We could do it because I do think people want the facility of looking at their BlackBerries.”

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How Much Is That AT-AT In The Window?

There’s nothing cuter than an anthropomorphized AT-AT. Whether it’s licking its crotch, playing with a baby, or chasing a squirrel. That metal menace is pretty adorable.

Patrick Boivin, the genius behind the equally heartwarming Iron Baby, has created this short which answers the question: what does a pet AT-AT’s poo look like.

Watch the video after the break.

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Dr. Who-Inspired Gadget Case Arrives Then Disappears Then Arrives Again

Just in time for today’s season finale of Doctor Who (for all UK residents and those who can watch the show by *ahem* other means), purveyor of handmade gadget protectors CbSew has released an iPhone case that looks curiously similar to the good doctor’s famed TARDIS. And, naturally, it’s already sold out… oh… wait… another one has appeared for $20.

Likely out of concern of copyright, CbSew calls the product a “Sci-Fi Blue Police Phone Booth Gadget Case”. Since I’m less concerned, let’s come out and say we all agree it’s a Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space machine. Yeah, that’s right.

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UPDATED: Lemmings Returns For Free–Enter Sony’s Legal Dept.

Mobile gaming developer Mobile1Up has just finished making a cross-platform port of the classic game of mindless green-haired fools. The goal: to demonstrate the process of bringing a classic game from its available source code to the iPhone, Palm, Mac and Windows.

The result: in just 36 hours, the team has issued free downloadable versions of the original early 1990s Lemmings on the latest versions of the two popular desktop operating systems and submitted the game for approval at the Apple and Palm app stores. And they live-blogged the whole thing.

So, if you fondly recall crowding around your friend’s computer and wasting hours upon hours saving (and/or nuking) these little walking idiots, a return to those days of the retro environment-changing puzzle is just around the corner.

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The Game That Explores Your “Privates”

Who says there are no original games out there. Zombie Cow Studios is putting the finishing touches on a game which will definitely turn a few heads. Privates takes you “into” some rather rude areas of the human body to destroy some of the nasties that can be sometimes be found inside. Your little army of condom-hatted marines will travel into the vagina, anus and other places to destroy crabs and take on HIV and other diseases. Sounds weird but the trailer is actually quite comical! See it for yourself after the break!

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Futuristic Newspaper or Lazy Editor?

Mistakes happen. The wrong information goes to print, spelling mistakes get published. Hey, we’ve even been known to have a few tiopoes, typoes, typos ourselves. But the example above shows a wee bit of laziness on one newspaper editors part.

Do you think this was copied and pasted from their online article? That or this is really the world’s most technologically advanced newspaper!

[Via Technabob]

FaceTime: The Future of AppleCare

Two days ago Apple set up a special hotline for iPhone 4 users to call and test out the new video chat application known as FaceTime. Apparently the calls have been so successful, Apple is considering using the same face to face service for future AppleCare calls.

Numerous Apple reps have been reported as saying the company has been toying around with the idea of video support calls for some time, and the FaceTime ‘hotline’ was actually a test to see how effective it would be.

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Rogers to Launch New Mobile Brand “Chatr”

One of Canada’s largest carriers may be looking to sprout yet another offshoot of itself. According to Canadian blog MobileSyrup, Rogers is getting ready to launch a new wireless brand called Chatr, aimed directly at the newly emerged Wind Mobile and Mobilicity.

Chatr is expected to launch in mid-July and will boast new unlimited plans in major centers like Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa. As for the hardware, the Nokia 1661, Nokia 2680 Slide, LG Sapphire, and Samsung Gravity are expected at launch.

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The Vending Machine That Makes You Smile…Literally

Unilever, the company that owns Ben & Jerry’s, Good Humor, Breyers, Klondike, and Wall’s has come up with a one-of-a-kind ice cream vending machine. You have to smile in order to get your frozen treat!

Share Happy takes your picture, then uses facial recognition to see whether or not you’re smiling. To help you get happy the machine will even superimpose moustaches, hats or even give you an afro.

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Gaming Each Day Keeps The Blindness At Bay

Despite his eye problems, a kid in the UK may be one of the luckiest in the world. He has been told by a medical doctor that he must play video games or else—and excuse my exclamation points here—go blind!!

Ben Michaels suffers from lazy eye—medically known as amblyopia—in his right eye. If he was left untreated, Michaels could have lost vision completely in that eye. To solve this, he was ordered to play two hours of Mario Kart on a Nintendo DS.

Ken Nischal, a consultant with Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, prescribed the unique treatment. He said the treatment works because “computer games encourage repetitive eye movement, which trains the eye to focus correctly.

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