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Vanishing Mobile Phone Masts

Posted by Hemos on from the locking-them-down dept.

babycakes writes "The BBC has an article about the concealment of mobile phone antennae in the UK, where the masts have been disguised as clock face hands, chimneys and so on. The company behind them, The Undetectables (flash site) aim to 'eradicate this architectural acne' - pics available."

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  1. But if they hide all the cellular towers.... by raehl · · Score: 5, Funny

    How am I supposed to know to be pissed off when I'm standing right under one and still not getting any reception?

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  2. maybe it is just me ... by Alien54 · · Score: 5, Funny
    but I want to disquise one as an object most appropriate to express my feelings about my local, regional, and national politicians.

    There must be some appropriate gesture....

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  3. Phily area camouflage by Arctic+Fox · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're making them look like big ass trees. The best one is on the PA Turnpike near Willow Grove. It's in the middle of a wooded area. It looks good except, it's easily three times the size of normal trees, oh, and in the winter, it's the only one with leaves on it!!!!

  4. This antenna cannot be seen by Qrlx · · Score: 5, Funny

    This antenna cannot be seen. Unfortunately, it has chosen a rather obvious piece of cover...

    BOOM!

  5. Re:Ha... by Wakkow · · Score: 5, Informative

    my thoughts exactly.. Quick search on google comes across this page with *ooooh* pretty pictures.

  6. Re:It can't be worse than here... by dhovis · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yeah, they call those "Towers of Babble".

    No, really.

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  7. The Undetectables (flash site) by cosyne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, flash site is one thing. Has so many useless little files that it throws the browser into spasms where the stop button and mozilla logo blink at around 1 Hz site is a little more annoying. Perhaps their precious little flash animations don't do so well against a friday afternoon slashdotting....

    1. Re: The Undetectables (flash site) by RollingThunder · · Score: 5, Informative

      I'm not sure it's little files - in the headers, there's this line:

      meta http-equiv="refresh" content=";URL="

      Mozilla, at least, seems to treat that as a zero second refresh to the same location. As fast as it loads it, it reloads it. :/

  8. Picture... by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found one that is similar here

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  9. Good ./ing by raiyu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Undetectables website is now undetectable.