This is a method to hide your application ports shimmer works by cryptographically changing a set of 16 ports (one of which forwards to the real service, and 15 others that lead to a trap to blacklist attackers). The 16 ports change every minute frustrating an attacker, but a legimitate user with access to a Read more about Shimmer[…]
Looks like a good gaming keypad to me…
This guy has an amazing Wii mod which puts the sensor bar on your head and has a WiiRemote track the location of your head. Because it knows this, software can change the image on the screen relative to the position of your head, creating a very effective 3D space. The whole thing is explained Read more about Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote[…]
Both Steven Poole and Virginia Heffernan in the NY Times have written great pieces about how they are pissed off with the huge bloat that is MS Word and how they have gotten around it. One option is to use WriteRoom which presents you with a blank screen with text. Which is kind of… it. Read more about Goodbye, cruel Word[…]
This freeware disables all the little things you hate about Vista, making it slightly less crap: Vista4Experts is kind of a treat for computer experts who don’t want security center notifications, User Account Control dialogs, automatic Windows Defender scannings, automatic update installations (which cause you to reboot your system if you don’t react quickly enough). Read more about Vista4Experts[…]
The International Meteor Organization has a calendar with the meteor showers we can expect this year. It has pictures of where to look as well as data on how many to expect and on what they base these predictions.
And if there are more female monkeys around, you pay less. Yup, money makes the world go round…
For Neo Wannabes: How To Do Matrix-Like Bullet Time Video at Home. Basically it involves attaching a whole load of digital camera’s to a u-shaped board, then rigging the shutters so that they all go off at the same time…
TomTom Systems are basically linux machines running on ARM CPUs. This means – we can hack them! And because they’re running Linux and a whole load of Linux apps, TomTom provides this page with the OS source codes and the tools they use. Of course since then it has been hacked like crazy. Here’s the Read more about Opening TomTom[…]
An interesting paper detailing quickly how to crack MD5sums using Google 🙂
Without the people really knowing or approving of their data in the system, a health care database has been set up with some very personal details in it of all people in Holland. The Vecozo database is searchable by 80,000 people. Not too surprisingly, people aren’t too happy about this.
Indian scientists have quite accidentally stumbled upon a way to store light for longer periods of time. So far this could only be done for a few nano-seconds. This potentially allows us to create light based switching systems.
The car door dissappears by rotating underneath the car. A totally different way of getting out of the car. The youtube film is nice.
And not only are humans evolving quickly, we’re also evolving differently on different continents.
Tablet PC’s come in all shapes and sizes. This is a quick look at tablet PCs on the market without keyboards and without potentially breakable hinges. Electrovaya Inc. has the Scribbler SC-3100 Ace Asia Co., Ltd. has the T201 Fujitsu has the Stylistic ST5100 Itronix offerts the rugged Gobook Series Motion Computing offers 3 different Read more about Tablet PCs[…]
A great concept – put your keys anywhere on the board you want them, then program them with single keys or multi key macros. The board (tray) is clear, so you can print out templates if you like.
Sometimes a product comes along that’s so simple you wonder why you’ve never spotted it before. This is one of them. Wide enough for a keyboard and a mouse or a laptop and a mouse: Made of lightweight material, the Lap Buddy’s design dissipates heat from a laptop computer, conforms to anyone’s lap, and our Read more about LapBuddy[…]
This seems to be the ulimate in erognomic keyboards for heavy use.
Shocking Tanks is a game where you remote control a tank and try to shoot the other tank(s) using a lasergun mounted on your tank. If you get shot, the controller electric shocks you.
If a TV shows ratings are faltering, they will try to do something spectacular on it in order to push up ratings again. This can be things like replacing characters, killing characters off, moving locations, special guest stars, or whatever. This site discusses shows and allows visitors to vote on whether they think a show Read more about Jumping the Shark[…]
This scanner takes a whole load of x-ray images of the whole body in a very small time using a rotating ring. This makes the images 3D so they can be rotated and viewed on computers. It can capture bone structures as well as organs.
This very cool looking BJ will hit speeds of mach 1.6. It can fly without a sonic boom over populated areas at mach 1.1. This will be the world’s first supersonic BJ. Due to it’s handling charecteristics and size, it will also be able to land on just about any concrete airfield.
Olympus creates 360-degree HD camera and projector – Engadget
Scientists have managed to create stem cells without extracting them from embryos using a simple lab technique.
The UK has managed to lose two CDs with lots of very private information on around 15 million of its subjects. These CDs contained the personal information of all people collecting child benefits and were lost as a result of them being sent untracked by courier. They never arrived at their destination and were sent Read more about When you lose a database[…]