Entries for October, 2010
DIY Arduino Magstripe Emulator [Video]
Whether you want to duplicate your easily losable keycard or you want to duplicate other magnetic card stripes, you can do so with just an Arduino, some electrical tape, copper wire, and a thin piece of metal. More » Original post by Whitson Gordon
USB ‘Dead Drops’
Okian Warrior writes “Aram Bartholl is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City. Billed as ‘an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space,’ he has embedded USB sticks as file cache devices throughout the city. Bartholl says, ‘I am “injecting” USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs [...]
Microsoft acquire Canesta, 3D gesture controls are a go
Canesta, a company specializing in motion-sensing and 3D gesture controls, have just announced that they are being acquired by Microsoft; a deal that is expected to be finalized by the end of 2010. Canesta was founded in 1999 and they specialize in “NUI’s” or natural user interfaces. Their technology allows users to do away with the traditional [...]
Microsoft acquires Canesta, 3D gesture controls are a go
Canesta, a company specializing in motion-sensing and 3D gesture controls, have just announced that they are being acquired by Microsoft; a deal that is expected to be finalized by the end of 2010. Canesta was founded in 1999 and they specialize in “NUI’s” or natural user interfaces. Their technology allows users to do away with the traditional [...]
Intel, Toshiba, Samsung To Form Chip Alliance
Lucas123 writes “According to a report from a Japanese news agency, semi-conductor leaders Intel, Samsung and Toshiba are forming a development alliance to halve the size of chip circuitry in order to create more dense NAND flash chips and more powerful processors. The vendors would not confirm the news report, but the Nikkei Daily said [...]
Descendents Reunite to Headline Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin and more [Unplugging]
Welcome to this week’s edition of Unplugging! It’s been a positively huge week for news and we have all the biggest headlines for you happening all over the world of music. Original post by TechEMaster
How the Global Seed Vault Aims To Fight Future Famine
Lanxon writes “The Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 after engineers spent a year drilling and blasting through the sandstone, siltstone and claystone of the Norwegian Platåberget Mountain to create a system of subterranean chambers on the Advent Fjord’s southern flank that could store 4.5 million seeds. It’s a $9 million bet against climate change. [...]