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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 invades the London Eye

We go for a spin with the big wheel's new tourist friendly tablet set-up

After playing it safe for eleven years – with the odd dining pod and garden pod thrown in – the London Eye has shacked up with Samsung to deck out the big wheel with Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets.

If tour guides – with their dad jokes and singalongs – make you want to weep, you’ll be glad to see that you can get your tourist fix without any human interaction whatsoever as you prod and swipe your way around 360 degree images of the capital. Flit to the night view to see what pretty lights you’re missing and choose from five languages if you want to ramp your cultural learning up to difficult mode.

We got to nosey around the bar at the top of the Gherkin and mull about outside 10 Downing Street since a handful of the 44 London attractions with blurbs have a ‘Look Inside’ button. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 “interactive experience” is still very much a work in progress – the cameras are still rolling around the inside of the Houses of Parliament.

Just don’t try to pick up the Galaxy Tabs and wield them at the London skyline – there’s no AR fun as yet but we wouldn’t be too surprised if Sammy was beavering away at getting a decent app together. The new gadgetry is installed in the EDF Energy London Eye now – go and see for yourself.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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