London to get city-wide, floor to ceiling wifi coverage for 2012 Olympics.

Mobile web junkies, London 2012 will be the place to go. Not only will you have thousands of athletes from across the globe competing for the gold, but fresh, speedy WiFi to boot. This comes from London’s mayor, Boris Johnson himself. According to the good mayor, by 2012 tourists and inhabitants alike can expect wireless access points in every light post, street sign, bus stop, etc., etc come games time.

So far, 22 boroughs have jumped on board the monumental task of outfitting a city such as London with all the needed hardware to make true wireless mobility a seamless experience. The only thing that remains mystery for now is the pricetag on such a project as well as the price tag (if any) on user access fees. I would hope that the city would budget such things into tax payers’ tab instead of continual access fees which no one likes. Either way, someone’s going to have to pay, right?

HTC HD2 moving closer to Android debut.

The HTC HD2 is a wondrous piece of technology with it’s only big short fall being the WinMo ball&chain attached at various limbs. The talented dev community however has something to say — the HTC HD2 is close to dual booting Android goodness.

The video inside outlines all the nicks and nacks of the procedure and should be used as caution to not get too excited just yet as there are still a fair amount of bugs — like an unsightly lack of pretty much all the important drivers.

But once all the bits have been accounted for, this 4.3″ monstrosity will be a happier, bilingual tool that only a true nerd can appreciate…

LED’s beaten into submission, made to handle wireless traffic to the tune of 2Mbps

Ok, so the title is bittersweet. One side of the argument, it’s helluva cool to have something as “ordinary” as an LED actually become mini wireless routers of sorts. On the flip side, 2Mbps is hardly going to cut it in the days of HD everything, lossless media, and intense LAN gaming. This is of course brought to you buy the Chinese Academy of Sciences in case you were curious…

Get your Gameboy on the big screen with NES adapter.

Tinkers in the whole modding scene will know that it isn’t your cute nickname that gets you street cred, it’s what you do that matters. That’s probably a good thing for Nintendo Age forum member “Bunnyboy” whose name is questionable, but his acts of kindness upon nerd kingdom are worth their weight in gold.

Using the guts of an old Gameboy and the case of an NES game, BunnyBoy created a masterpiece — an adapter to play Gameboy games on the big screen!

It’s really as simple as that — a GameBoy in a cartridge with some handy language translating going on in the controller, turning all of those NES commands into GameBoy friendly, button mashing fun.

In case you were wondering, you can get your very own GameBoy/NES cartridge for a cool $130. It may seem like a rather hefty chunk of change for the technology involved, but each cartridge is made to order. Anyone biting?

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Proof you were born decades too early: LEGO robot bridge mover…

I played with LEGO’s as a kid. I play with LEGO’s now. Not much has changed. I’m a bit taller, shower more regularly, and can drive a car (legally). But other than that, I’m still a big kid at heart. Perhaps that’s why I get made fun of for playing with LEGO’s from time to time. It doesn’t really matter to me as I’m a nerd and will always be a nerd. There’s no hope for me. And with toys such as the LEGO bot you see above, I will love every second of it…

Arizona University takes nanny state to the next level, stuffing RFID tracking chips in student ID’s.

Anyone who is “afraid” or not into technology will usually point out their distain for being watched, monitored, or snooped on. It’s a valid argument. Though one that I tend to look past as gadgets of all shapes, sizes, and colors yank my attention faster than –

It seems the current trend in nanny state movements is that of hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) cameras. Under the guise of security, the last several years have seen copious amounts of privacy revoked. For a few students at Northern Arizona University, I’m sure a few security cameras would gladly be exchanged for what is coming — RFID tracking ID’s.

Straight from a sci-fi/thriller book, students at NUA will find that their new ID’s are more telling than in past years, offering up those behind a screen hundreds of yards if not miles away a constant look at where they are at. At first, the excuse seems noble — they want to monitor students’ class attendance. But when you step back and look at the gross invasion of privacy these ID cards represent, you can begin to see how detrimental this is…

First 1.3GHz phone spied in leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM?

One thing that excites geeks better and faster than anything else is leaked pre-release information. One could argue the build up of suspense to unknown products is part of the “experience”, sure. But for us truly addicted souls, the suspense is by no means necessary to enjoy the spoils of our beloved devices.

What would you say if we told you an upcoming Windows Phone 7 powered handset that was rather drab in plain physical form but an absolute beast underneath the hood? I’d say that describes about 98% of all smartphones these days. But I digress.

A leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM (claimed) was torn to pieces over the weekend by the folks at XDA. Inside this 100MB file of buried treasure was one shining gem in the form of the image you see above. What is it?