Tag: metropolis
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A Historical Look At Robots In Cinema
You probably just heard a robot in your head right? And depending on when you grew up there is one particular robot voice that you heard. Perhaps you grew up in the 1960’s and heard “EXTERMINATE!!!” or you grow up instead in the 1970’s and it was Mel Blanc’s “Twikispeak” or maybe you grew up…
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Historic Architect Edmund Burke Shaped Look Of Today’s Toronto
Since 1793, when the Town of York, the second capital of Upper Canada, was founded, Toronto has been an important economic and political hub. The first governor of the Town of York, John Graves Simcoe, believed that this town would become a powerful industrial metropolis, and when Toronto became one of the top financial centres…
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Digital Bus Stops Replacing Paper Timetables In Australia
Catching a bus in Sydney just got a whole lot smarter, thanks to the new digital bus stops from Mercury Innovation and Visionect. These intelligent signs run on solar power and have been developed on energy-saving electronic paper technology to ease the daily commute in the bustling Australian metropolis. eStops New digital bus stops have…