Dubai to get ‘moving’ skyscraper
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008From BBC News
Construction of the world’s first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.
The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.
“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said David Fisher, the tower’s architect.
“This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime,” he added.
The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building’s apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor… [Tags: architecture
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How not to treat a customer…
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Not the Nine O’Clock News – Gramophone Sketch
This is how you can expect not to be treated when dealing with us 
Apple finally takes the UK out to the movies
Thursday, June 5th, 2008From Engadget
Apple just announced that iTunes UK will finally make films available to British punters. Studios include 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK. At kickoff, about 700 films will be available to purchase or rent. Films cost £6.99 for purchased library titles and £10.99 for new releases. Rentals start at £2.49 for library titles and £3.49 for new releases — “HD” titles for £4.49 without with an Apple TV prerequisite, apparently. [read]
DVD industry braces itself for march of the download
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008From The Guardian
The DVD is only 10 years old and yet the doom merchants are predicting it could join the likes of VHS tapes – vanishing from high-street stores and household shelves. With reports that Apple is poised to launch full-length film downloads in Britain and other companies offering their own video-on-demand services, even DVD industry insiders admit the format may eventually die out…[more]