{"id":29000,"date":"2013-09-11T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=29000"},"modified":"2013-09-11T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:42:15","slug":"london-shoppers-beamed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/09\/london-shoppers-beamed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"London Shoppers Beamed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29003\" alt=\"BeamUp091113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BeamUp091113.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To promote the release of<em> Star Trek into Darkness<\/em> on DVD, Blu-ray and video-on-demand, <em>Blinkbox<\/em> and top illusionist <strong>Scott Penrose<\/strong> put on a transporting exhibition at London&#8217;s Westfield shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p>The video, seen below, amazed a gathered crowd who saw people beamed away from one spot and sent to other parts of the mall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;The dramatic spectacle was a stunt by top illusionist <strong>Scott Penrose<\/strong> and movie and TV streaming service<em> Blinkbox<\/em> to celebrate the release of the new <em>Star Trek<\/em> movie <em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teleportation trickery was achieved using a combination of science and illusion. It caused a stir among thousands of shoppers who witnessed \u2018volunteers\u2019 from the crowd step into a high-tech unit and appear to have been &#8216;beamed&#8217; to nearby locations in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em> is one of the biggest releases of the year,&#8221; said <em>Blinkbo<\/em>x&#8217;s <strong>Ben Ayers.<\/strong> &#8220;We wanted to mark its arrival with an audacious spectacle straight out of the franchise itself \u2013 human teleportation. Since <em>Star Trek<\/em> first hit our screens, the idea of being able to teleport from one place to another, although it is not scientifically possible, has captured the public imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The latest installment of the popular franchise is available on the <em>Blinkbox<\/em> movie streaming service over a year ahead of <em>Netflix <\/em>and<em> Lovefilm Instant<\/em> [and is] priced from \u00a33.49 to rent and \u00a310.99 to buy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f4RbF2tjTt0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote the release of Star Trek into Darkness on DVD, Blu-ray and video-on-demand, Blinkbox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700,2416],"tags":[6209,2527,6215,6212],"class_list":["post-29000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fandom","tag-blinkbox","tag-london","tag-penrose","tag-transporter"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29006,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions\/29006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}