Nathan Ramella writes “The ARCwelder project has released a technique dubbed ‘Go Fighting Tabby!’ which exploits an unquoted system() call through the Archos UI, providing the ability to execute arbitrary code with root access on the Archos 605 WiFi. In doing so, opening the platform up for further hacking. The Archos 605 WiFi runs embedded [...]
Yep, 2008, and 2000 posts, we’re already on a roll! Where are you celebrating New Years??
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Privacy International has released their report on privacy for 2007, which includes a color-coded world map that highlights the countries with the best privacy laws, the privacy-hostile countries being in black. While many of the overall rankings may come as no surprise, it does highlight some of the [...]
I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Privacy International has released their report on privacy for 2007, which includes a color-coded world map that highlights the countries with the best privacy laws, the privacy-hostile countries being in black. While many of the overall rankings may come as no surprise, it does highlight some of the [...]
Do you want to do more with LEDs? Then check out Mongoose Studio’s RGBy3.0. This device features “color sensors that interpret the shade beneath, and subsequently, the LEDs within change to mimic it.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Japan’s Mongoose Studio took the same basic color-chameleon technology found in the [...]
The guys over at NotSoNoisy takes stop-motion photography to a new level by recreating the classic game of Tetris with humans. Video after the break.
Human Tetris was recorded during the Urbaines Festival at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland. The video shoot took 88 people wearing bright Tetris colored T-shirts, and 880 carefully choreographed [...]
Cineplex owner Shannon McGinnis decided to bring the big screen experience home with this custom setup. According to the installer, the “room’s effects soften all of the dark colors in the room, while giving off the feel like you just paid admission to the movie.” Equipment includes: a Runco VX-1000ci DLP projector, Stewart Filmscreen Luxus [...]
First released on August 12th, 1981, the IBM Model 5150 was the world’s first PC. It came with a host of business and productivity tools, but only CGA graphics. Fortunately, a modder hacked one of these 4.77MHz wonders (640K RAM + 10MB HDD) to play full motion color video, running at 30fps. Video after the [...]
Aside from custom applications, programmers are also working on games and/or emulators for the iPhone, with Doom being one of them. Continue reading for a demonstration.
Psycho says that this build is not quite playable yet, but he’s got it faster than ever and working in widescreen mode. The control scheme is definitely interesting, too, [...]
An anonymous reader writes “NASA released part of a controversial study about air traffic safety Monday. The space agency spent $11 million on a survey of airline pilots. Agency officials were so disturbed by the findings that they intended to destroy the information rather than release it. But at an October congressional hearing, NASA administrator [...]