TV pods

Since becoming more involved in learning spaces at UCL, I’ve been finding that inspiration comes from the most unexpected places.

On Saturday night I was down at the BT London Live site in Hyde Park. Between watching Mo Farah run a spectacular double gold and Tom Daley saving his best to last in the diving, I popped into the BT Vision space.

In there were five pods for watching the multitude of olympic channels available. Built by a company in Leeds especially for the BT stand, they were super comfortable and seemed immensely popular. A queue of people waited patiently to get a chance to sit in the pod, with those already in them showing little sign of wanting to leave. I’m sure they’d be equally popular with students too.

I didn’t have my camera with me unfortunately, but did take a couple of pictures with my phone, they’ve not come out great – myriad swirling lights and special effects didn’t help – but you get the idea.