https://polaine.com/tags/bbc/ Recent content in BBC on Andy Polaine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06:43 +0000 https://polaine.com/2008/07/smart-german-supermarket/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06:43 +0000 https://polaine.com/2008/07/smart-german-supermarket/ The BBC has a video report about a German supermarket Future Store from German supermarket chain, Real. Rather than use RFID tags to do the scanning of all the stuff in your shopping trolley (that’s ‘cart’ to you folks over the Atlantic), they’ve gone for a mobile phone solution. Basically you take photos of all the bar codes and their phone software generates one master bar code that you scan back in (very meta-media that) at the end in order to pay. https://polaine.com/2008/07/the-future-of-broadcasting-and-the-bbc/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:02:55 +0000 https://polaine.com/2008/07/the-future-of-broadcasting-and-the-bbc/ Although I still agree with much of Mark Pesce’s take on the Future of Television, Stephen Fry neatly sums up the worth of the BBC in an interesting speech he gave: You know when you visit another country and you see that it spends more money on flowers for its roundabouts than we do, and you think … coo, why don’t we do that? How pretty. How pleasing. What a difference it makes.