Blue Ray hacked
It’s all been cracked open in the Doom9 forum. DRM is not a cure, it has been cured again!
12 million UK Tax logins found in car park
Basically anyone who’d ever used the Government Gateway for payment or any of the myriad other systems had their logins on this memory stick, as well as the source code to the system itself. This shows what a fantastic idea centralised databases are, especially single sign on systems, when held in the capable hands of Read more about 12 million UK Tax logins found in car park[…]
BSODomizer
BSODomizer is a small, battery-powered, mischievous electronic gadget that interfaces between a laptop or desktop and VGA monitor and flashes images onto the monitor at random time intervals or when triggered by an infrared remote control Childish and random? Hell yeah! Cool as fuck and I want one!
How-to: The Only Wii Homebrew Guide You Will Ever Need
Well, it looks pretty damn complete to mii 🙂
How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers
To get the ipod able to sync to multiple computers basically you find the an itunes ID which the PC you’re allready syncing to has, and then rewrite the ID on the second computer. The only thing is that if you then sync the same type of data from both PCs you’ll have that data Read more about How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers[…]
SNEAKEY Key duplicator
SNEAKEY is a system that can take a poor resolution picture of a key and from that create a prefect working duplicate.
gMote
gMote is a windows freeware that allows you to easily define mouse gestures to launch programs or open folders.
EstDomains kicked by ICANN
As the president of EstDomains has been convicted of fraud, money laundering and document forgery, as well as apparently being notorious for registering domain names used for phishing, spam and other internet scams, ICANN has said enough is enough and has kicked them out. They are now looking for someone to take over the 281,000 Read more about EstDomains kicked by ICANN[…]
Attractive people and their children
An earlier study in 2006 showed that attractive parents are 36% more likely to have daughters, and that the daughters become more attractive That study has been validated again recently, but now with the added caveat that whilst it seems that the attractiveness is hereditiary for women and not for men: ie. attractive couples have Read more about Attractive people and their children[…]
eGo Skin
This is a paper thin LCD screen that can be coated on cell phones and change colour at the touch of a finger. YOU get to decide what you’re cell phone looks like!
WowWee Alive Cubs
These teddybears look amazing
Headphonies
These external speakers will only run at 100 – 500 pieces and will be on sale from November.
And now: the F/A-18 Hornets
Yup, the USA military is definitely past it’s prime – first the grounding of the entire F-15 fleet, then the ongoing A-10 grounding, the ancient tankers which have no replacement coming and now the F/A-18s are being grounded and inspected for structural faults found in many earlier models around the aerolon hinges. These kind of Read more about And now: the F/A-18 Hornets[…]
Plasma rocket engine VASIMR VX-200 first stage achieves full power rating
These kind of rockets are more efficient and require less fuel than traditional chemical rockets. Very usefull in space. Infinity and beyond!
mir:ror
mir:ror is a system that reads RFID labels and then performs actions on your PC depending on the type of tag: eg, show your umbrella and it will give you a weather report. Only $69,99
DHS turns 2/3rd of US Population into citizens without rights
By declaring anything 100 miles from a border a ‘constitution-free zone’, where the Dept of Homeland Security (aka SS or Gestapo) can stop, seize and search you, demanding papers (Auschweiss) with no reason or cause. Of course, the happy jackbooted goons are taking advantage of this, using their powers to detain at random will.
Itunes without a credit card
Creating an Itunes account using this method allows you to not give Apple your personal data, but also allows you to register in the US store, which is updated more frequently and has more free content on it.
Wii Hacked open after 2 days
After an update with which Nintendo killed new homebrew channel installations, this part has been circumvented allready.
USB Floppy Drive
This HP USB key doubles as a floppy disk emulator, meaning you can easily boot up from it on all kinds of PCs.
ACCESS Linux Platform
ALP 3.0 is out. This is the successor the Palm OS / Garnet and would have been really really really exciting. If it had happened around 3 years ago. Very curious if Palm is going to license this for their new phones and get rid of Windows Mobile (which is total crap). Somehow I don’t Read more about ACCESS Linux Platform[…]
Setting up your Wii for Homebrew
This wiki explains how to set up your Wii for homebrew, how to install the homebrew channel and the homebrew softwares you can then get.
The Inclusive 4GB SD Card Workaround Solution for Wii!
Nintendo says the SD card size limit is 2GB. Basically what it comes down to, is if you ensure there’s always less than 1.99GB of free space on an SD card, it doesn’t seem to matter what size the SD card is. So you fill up the space with crap, and when your SD card Read more about The Inclusive 4GB SD Card Workaround Solution for Wii![…]
Print 3D objects from Google SketchUp
CADSpan has released a plugin that translates Google Sketchups to an STL file.
Scotch-tape X-Ray Machine
Who knew? If you peel away Scotch tape, you emit X-Rays. Well, the Russians found out about 50 years ago. It turns out that unpeeling 3 cm / second emits enough X-Rays to take a picture of a finger!
New state of matter found
In addition to gas, liquid and solid we now also have “quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal”, which is sort of 3D, but not quite. Strange stuff, and the boffins are looking at it to see what they can do with it, but as they discovered it in a resistor, there’s a good chance this will be Read more about New state of matter found[…]