BBC hackers get mashed

Davey Winder
Friday, 27 June 2008 20:17

Business IT - Networking

My favourite mashup of the event has to be the non-prize winning carbon goggles which were used within a Second Life 3D immersive environment to display the carbon footprint of every object within the virtual world. The developers overlayed real world carbon emission data over virtual objects in Second Life and fed the results through the carbon goggles.

The serious concept behind the fun idea being that by actually seeing the amount of carbon everything uses we can make more informed decisions about energy consumption.

All in all then, you must hark back to 1936 and that first TV broadcast from Alexandra Palace. A truly momentous occasion that started a media revolution. A revolution that is continuing in the creative talent of the hackers who got mashed at the BBC this past week...