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MWC Starts With A Bang

This year’s Mobile World Congress seems to have got off with a bang as customers are said to have booked out Europe’s first robotic knocking-shop. A Barcelona bordello is giving away introductory offers of £70 an hour with one of four robots. Once the introductory offer is over, the price goes up to £100. The robots weigh 40kg and are ...

Driverless car on London streets

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A driverless car was tested in London yesterday as Nissan put a modified Leaf on the streets of the East End. The car was said to have gone at speeds up to 50mph on local streets and main roads. The Leaf uses cameras, radar and lasers to figure out where it is in relation to other vehicles. The UK has ...

MWC sees driverless car demo

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Mobile World Congress brought a demo of driverless cars controlled by 5G signals staged by Telefonica, Ericsson and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology KTH. The companies showed how they could control driverless cars on a test track 70km away in Tarragona. Telefonica’s Javier Lorca said that, for the moment, using cellular signals to control driverless cars would only work in ...

Electroluminescent Walls

No doubt lighting engineers have long dreamed of being able to panel walls and ceilings with sheets of material, which at the touch of a switch would light up with an even glow, and the colour of which could be varied at the turn of a knob. Electroluminescence almost, but not quite, fulfils this dream. So, 56 years ago, began a ...

Will VR Fly?

If people decide they don’t like having bulky stuff fixed to their face then some companies are due a re-think. The 3D TV firms are currently going through that with Sony, LG and Samsung already abandoning 3D TV manufacture. Google Glass went the way of all flesh some years ago. So – spotlight on VR. For VR you have to ...