<![CDATA[Gizmodo: ole]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: ole]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/ole http://gizmodo.com/tag/ole <![CDATA[BigDog Quadruped Robot Turns Into Killer Spanish Bull]]> If you thought the BigDog robot was scary before, check him out with horns.

Now I will have nightmares of about running with the bulls, only the bulls are BigDogs, and I'm not really running... more like briskly walking away... in terror. [Boston Dynamics via BotJunkie]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5172560&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pranksters Can Now Send Erroneous Messages to Your GPS Navigation]]> bullfight.jpgThe next time you see "bull fight in progress", "bomb alert", "air crash", or "terrorist incident" on your traffic-update enabled GPS navigation, don't be too quick to assume that's what actually happened. Some "hackers" have discovered a way to inject RDS messages (which use the FM frequency to send traffic and weather information) into your GPS, triggering off a different alert message depending on the message.

However, since most GPS devices don't yet have traffic integration (the one that came with our car doesn't), this won't be a huge deal yet. But when these prankers find out how to inject messages that tell you there's a gigantic traffic jam on one freeway in order to move everyone to another—and thus clearing up traffic on the first—people will start to worry. – Jason Chen

Satellite navigation users at risk for false messages [ComputerWorld]

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