James May's Man Lab

[Sprintex]

Anyone else watching this?

They just devised a remote mail-sorting contraption that deposited genuine and junk mail into two purpose built wagons (big scale, N gauge too small ), then dropped the junk mail into a shredder to become pizza-oven kindling, whilst the proper mail continued via an automatic lifting section to eventually arrive at his desk on the first floor!

James did his own quite funny version of "The Night Mail" to go with it 


Paul

[Newportnobby]

Just watched it. Quite ingenious, really, providing the letter box is situated such that the system could be used

[keerout]

bother! missed it! any repeats?
Gerard

[Sprintex]

No repeats scheduled on the BBC site but it should be available on iPlayer for the next 10 days


Paul

[keerout]

alas, not in Amsterdam I'm afraid 
G.

[Sprintex]

There was a discussion on here not so long back about ways to get around viewing iPlayer in other countries, something about a program that fools the iPlayer into thinking you're in the UK - can't remember where I saw it? 


Paul

[Caz]

There was a discussion on here not so long back about ways to get around viewing iPlayer in other countries, something about a program that fools the iPlayer into thinking you're in the UK - can't remember where I saw it? 

Paul

Can't find my original posting but here's the link, there are 2 versions of the program "Ex Pat Shield" for spoofing the UK and "Hotspot Shield" for US spoofing.  http://www.expatshield.com/

If you want to download iplayer stuff permanently to your PC then you need "getIplayer", do a google search as it's available for various platforms but here's a link to a Windows version, scroll down to the Download links. http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

Managed to find the original thread http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=9359.msg102653#msg102653