Nido Pods For Students With Cash July 7, 2007
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Student life seems to have changed somewhat in the last few years. There was a time when a single three-bedroom home could house a small village-worth of smelly, badly dressed, over-opinionated students, while the notion of ‘personal space’ was a nebulous thing, right up there with winning the lottery.
What you are looking at above is a Nido Pod, part of the two 16-storey Nido [Nest] tower blocks being built in Kings Cross for students. The pods are cubes with bathrooms, measuring 135 to 184 square feet, and 950 students will fill the blocks.
Around 100 pods will be shared, and cost £120 per week, while singles will cost £180 a week. Pod-students can also avail off a concierge service, free gym and fitness centre, entertainment and games rooms, private study rooms, three shops, 50-seat cinema, bicycles for hire and an underground car-park.
What happened to ‘floor space’ and ‘sleeping bags’?
They open in September. Find out more here.-Martin Lynch
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Microsoft To Replace Dodgy Xbox 360s July 7, 2007
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Just yesterday, Gizmodo readers were have a well-justified gripe about the reliability problems of the Xbox 360 when, lo and behold, something happened.
Microsoft has put its hands up and admitted that the problem is big after all and, as a result, has decided to extend the warranty on the Xbox 360 to three years. This is because too many of them have been failing [red flashing lights, anyone?].
It hasn’t admitted just how extensive the problem - referred to as ‘general hardware failure’ - is but it’s certainly alarming and will cost it up to £750m to sort out. Plenty of Gizmodo readers have experienced some 360 trouble and it’s high time that Microsoft sorted you out.
In addition to the ‘repair or replace’ offer with free shipping, anyone that has paid to have repairs relating to the Three Flashing Lights Of The Apocalypse fixed, will get their money back. Read the open letter from Microsoft's Peter Moore after the jump.
Hands up anyone who's experienced a ‘general hardware failure’?-Martin Lynch
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