Globalisation on show thanks to ‘The Box’ from the BBC
Posted on 15. Sep, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Totally Whack
The BBC have launched a year-long project where they will be tracking the journey of a standard shipping container [unsurprisingly called 'The Box'] via GPS tracking around the globe.
Already the container has already travelled through Scotland and is picking up whiskey in Ireland.
When it arrives in South Africa it’ll probably be turned into a spaza shop, so enjoy the interesting show till then.
Would be cool if the site could also have a carbon footprint counter to indicate just how much carbon this thing’s journey actually causes.
Read: Box takes off on global journey - BBC
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Colin Seymour
15. Sep, 2008
Have you seen the little note just below the map on the BBC page?
“The location for the Box shown on the map is currently out of date – it is in Southampton, not Dublin – as we are not receiving position updates from it. We hope to put through a manual update to the map shortly.”
I thought it would have at least left the UK before someone pinched the GPS unit
Cherryflava
15. Sep, 2008
Oh dear. We really hope this actually works because it’s a great and will be damn interesting to see it in action.
Maybe they should have done a bit more testing prior to release.
Armin
15. Sep, 2008
And the whiskey was actually whisky and picked up in Scotland