Glastonbury

For the uninitiated, the UK's Glastonbury Festival is one of the largest music festivals in the world, which nowadays means it is one of the most data-hungry festivals too. Even with that in mind, this year's event, which ran for five days last week, was something of a data blowout.

Visitors to the UK's Glastonbury Festival this week will be able to upload festival spam to their heart's content, with tech and comms partner EE offering free Wi-Fi by way of 4G-enabled topiary artworks. The firm says its provision for Glastonbury is the UK's biggest temporary 4G network.

This year, high tech meets the bucolic at the Glastonbury Festival as visitors are greeted by a herd of life-sized, glass-fiber cows that double as free Wi-Fi hotspots to keep festival-goers connected.

Orange and GotWind have developed a prototype mobile device-charging t-shirt that uses Piezoelectric film to convert sound waves into electric charge.

European Telco Orange is showing off an interesting phone charging prototype – a set of Wellington Boots with a ‘power generating sole’ that converts heat from your feet into electrical power to charge your battery-powered handhelds.

Orange has announced a concept design for a new solar powered gadget tent.

Orange and Gotwind join forces for the third time to showcase their latest outdoor charging solution at this year's Glastonbury Festival – the Orange Power Pump.