Music festival

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Glad Company recently experimented with a combination tent and garbage bag, known as the Glad Tent.

Twitter is reportedly set to launch a music suggestion app this weekend.

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.

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