Music festival
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With its roof-top deck, beer tap and full features package, the Discarvery VW "Open Flair Edition" camper van rolls the highway as a mobile music festival headquarters built to blast music, party hard, sleep it off, and do it all again the next day.
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While SETI is content to scan the skies for signals, Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) takes a more active approach. Radio transmissions containing snippets of music have been sent to a potentially-habitable planet about 12 light-years from Earth, in hopes of making first contact.
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For this year's Glastonbury Festival, EE is pitching a high-tech tent to keep festival-goers connected. Acting as a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot, the camper packs VR headsets, voice-activated mood-setting, livestreams of performances, a solar-powered boot warmer and a fridge that reminds you to restock it.
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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.
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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.
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If you've camped at music festivals, you'll know that tents are often discarded afterwards for campsite crews to clear up. This is, obviously, incredibly wasteful. Recognizing this, a pair of Dutch designers decided that, if people are going to leave their tents, they might as well be recyclable.
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A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited beer-swigging live music lovers at last week's Roskilde Festival to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.
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We've seen drones designed to deliver all kinds of things, but music? That's new territory even for this rapidly growing technology. But Spotify and a Belgian mobile operator are marching to the beat of their own drum, using UAVs to deliver personalized music to festival goers in Belgium last month.
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The Glad Company recently experimented with a combination tent and garbage bag, known as the Glad Tent.
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Twitter is reportedly set to launch a music suggestion app this weekend.
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A visual effects studio recently brought long-dead rapper, Tupac Shakur, back to life as a 3D-like projection for one more performance at the Coachella music festival.
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Orange has announced a concept design for a new solar powered gadget tent.
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