Filed under: LDN Life, Random, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Broadband, London, New York, Southbank, Telescope
This is so cool!
Just saw this on ITV news and it kinda blew my mind. It’s literally like looking through a window and saying hello to NY…in real time! There’s no sound, but you use whiteboards to write messages to and from each other! How dope is that? Get a lil’ New York hookup!
As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George had finally been realized.
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)
Of course, only part of this story is true…The trans-Atlantic tunnel is really a trans-Atlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras, according to Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider handling the technical side of the project. [Read More]
We’ll be checking this out this weekend fo’ sure!
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