VIDEO: BBC shows off its "Blue Room" full of gadgets

Staff tech training facility exposed

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12 June 2009 13:40 GMT / By Duncan Geere

We're feeling jealous. Although the Pocket-lint stronghold is full of gadgets, it's not as packed-to-the-brim with tech toys as the BBC's incredible "Blue Room" facility, which it uses for staff training.

The Blue Room exists so that BBC personnel can test out any consumer technology that they need to, and understand how BBC content is delivered to a wide range of devices.

In the video above, BBC Head of Tech Liason Roland Allen takes you on a guided tour of the Blue Room. It's great fun to see how many you can identify. We spotted, in approximate order of appearance:

- Nokia N95
- Nokia N96 x 2
- Kodak ZX1
- Many iPhones
- The OLPC netbook
- 6 iPhones(!)
- Amazon Kindle
- Sony Reader
- Optoma Pico Projector
- Some sort of Sat Nav?
- Zune 30
- PSP
- iPod Headphones
- iPod Shuffle
- Wi-Fi detecting t-shirt
- A USB flash drive of some description
- Pleo
- Sony Rolly

Did you spot anything that our eagle eyes missed? Have you got a bigger gadget collection? Let us know in the comments.

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Comments

  • Pah, I've got more than that in the glove box of my hover-car! Posted by David Fanning, UK
  • So they have Ipod headphones eyy.. what about chargers, and perhaps there is a USB cable floating about as well? :)) Posted by misund007, United Kingdom
  • That's TV licence money "well" spent! Posted by blackcoffeenosugar, United Kingdom
  • yeah fancy them wasting tv licence money on all those useless iPhones! Posted by Tony Hedges, u
  • They'll have blagged the lot, impartial? BBC.. I think not! Posted by Pedro Parsimmo, Spain

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