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LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
Laser-Cut, RFID-Equipped Paper Radios Tell Your Speakers What to Play
RFID Takes The Fun Out Of Rube Goldberg Machines
Freecom's 2TB Hard Drive Secure Keeps Data 'Safe' with RFID
Apple's Future iPhone Patents Show Fingerprint ID For Different Gestures, Plus More
Samsung's Animated, Flexible OLED Passport Shown On Video
Nokia Developing Wireless, Accessory-Free Ambient Charging
Hands On with Amusement's RFID Magazine
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iPhone Prototype Makes Excellent Use of RFID

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brobot - Beboptimus Prime
10/17/09

In reply to LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
Rosa, are you trying to tell me that this is what is emitted from my butt pocket when I carry my RFID bus pass in my wallet?

SWEET #rfidwavesvisualized
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psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
10/17/09

In reply to LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
I hate how the guy in the begining talks like he has a ball of bread in his mouth.

Anywhos, this is pretty cool stuff. #rfidwavesvisualized
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Xeno
10/17/09

@psychonaut2021: Secrets of the Pineal Gland: #rfidwavesvisualized
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psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
10/17/09

@Xeno lives under the light of his shiny star: Aw man! I was thinking about that at work last night. How I used to love that cartoon. #rfidwavesvisualized
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
09/16/09

In reply to RFID Takes The Fun Out Of Rube Goldberg Machines
Could really use some help of background music and sound effects... nothing quite beats Pythagora Switch: [xspblog.com]
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Scotland
09/16/09

In reply to RFID Takes The Fun Out Of Rube Goldberg Machines
Cut open your Oyster Card (which you don't have) and remove the little chip, stick it on the end of a magic wand (which you do have), dress as a magician (optional) and then proceed to opening barriers and making things beep with your wand.
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BergenCountyJC can edit his name?
09/16/09

In reply to RFID Takes The Fun Out Of Rube Goldberg Machines
I like how the camera had to slow down and stall a bit, check it's nails and whistle a tune while waiting for the other phone to receive the text
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psychiccheese: You're awesome (
09/16/09

@BergenCountyJC: Clearly we should start sending text messages via RFID for increased speed and efficiency!
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ArcticLotus
09/16/09

@psychiccheese: i bet carrier pigeon could do better than AT&T texting...
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Pessimippopotamus
09/16/09

In reply to RFID Takes The Fun Out Of Rube Goldberg Machines
Kind of off topic, but I never understood who decided to name the cards "Oyster". That doesn't sound very pleasant to my boorish uncultured American ears.
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Pazu
08/12/09

In reply to Freecom's 2TB Hard Drive Secure Keeps Data 'Safe' with RFID
RFID is not supposed to be secure by itself. It's how you handle handshakes and data transmission that determines security.

As the release notes mention AES security for the RFID cards, there is a good chance they're actually secure. Or not. Let's wait a while and find out.
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Accelerata
08/12/09

In reply to Freecom's 2TB Hard Drive Secure Keeps Data 'Safe' with RFID
are they saying they are AES encrypting the drive itself? or is the lock just in the disk controller? because if i can just pull the drive out and stick it in another enclosure to get the data, it would be a kinda useless security system. their description and claimed transfer speeds make me think the later (useless) scenario is the likely case, but its really not clear from their product sheet.
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TuxRug
08/12/09

In reply to Freecom's 2TB Hard Drive Secure Keeps Data 'Safe' with RFID
I also have two fanless external HDDs. One Maxtor, one Seagate, both USB with power bricks. The Maxtor is IDE internally, and the Seagate is SATA internally. I keep them on all the time since the strip they're plugged into is hard to reach and they both have sleep modes, and neither has a switch. They're right next to each other, and neither gets warm to the touch. Hell, I've had MICE that got warmer than my fanless HDDs.
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
08/11/09

In reply to Freecom's 2TB Hard Drive Secure Keeps Data 'Safe' with RFID

Tinfoil? OMG, you ARE part of the conspiracy.

Everyone knows that tin and/or aluminum foil does NOTHING to prevent thought reading/stealing, abduction hypnosis/coma, telepathic commands, etc... The only way to effectively block these is using Velostat, but "THEY" don't want you know this.

As you can see from the cap my assistant is wearing, it is easy to construct a cap to prevent "them" from altering and/or reading your thoughts. If you want to save yourself, please check out this link for how to build one of your own.

Do what you will to me Rosa, for exposing your treachery. I have my cap on, and no one can take it off, because it's held on with string. In a knot! HAHAHA.
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Edited by GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy at 08/11/09 10:19 PM

GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
08/11/09

@GitEmSteveDave+$240InPudding: ZOMG, they are blocking the link! I must try again. If I help just one of you, it will be worth what ever torture they may inflict on me!
[io9.com]
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Hackintosh
08/11/09

@GitEmSteveDave+$240InPudding: OMG, they blocked the link! They are the conspiracy! Giz also profits and sells this! No, wait where are you taking me? Gah! I've said too much!

It's Shenanigans I tell you! SHENANIGA-
*Door Slam*
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
08/11/09

@Hackintosh: We have a call of Shenanigans. ZOMG, here they come! Must fight. Must stay Groovy!
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Hackintosh
08/11/09

In reply to Freecom's 2TB Hard Drive Secure Keeps Data 'Safe' with RFID
I'm already afraid of losing a wallet, keys, thumb drives & covers, bluetooth adapters & covers and money itself, all I need is 2 more cards required to access anything on the drive to be lost. $500 down the drain.

And there will always have to be new encryption types. WEP broke, which breaks my Nintendo DS Wi-Fi usage, and I'm sure they'll break WPA, RFID, WHATSAMIGIGGERTHATWEWERETOOLAZ..., and others. That's what hackers do. And always will be doing.
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92BuickLeSabre
07/02/09

In reply to Apple's Future iPhone Patents Show Fingerprint ID For Different Gestures, Plus More
This is an example of where technology just requires me to do more work.

Like the speed dial numbers of old, I'm never going to remember more than one or two combinations.
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fuchikoma
06/19/09

In reply to Samsung's Animated, Flexible OLED Passport Shown On Video
Solving a non-existent problem IMO... how many times does someone pass off a passport with someone else's picture on it, and succeed because they looked fairly similar to the person on the passport?

When they experimented with photo-ID credit cards they found that the photos weren't even glanced at.

It would make it harder to make a counterfeit from scratch, but even if the chips on the real passports were "unhackable," if all they did was display images when energized, it could just be implemented in another way on the copies.
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OMG! Ponies!
06/19/09

In reply to Samsung's Animated, Flexible OLED Passport Shown On Video
I'll stick with my luddite paper passport that is probably more secure (except for the extremely hackable RFID in it).

Technology and government bureaucracy combine to form inflated costs and avoidable clusterfucks almost without exception.
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joelydanger
06/10/09

In reply to Nokia Developing Wireless, Accessory-Free Ambient Charging
Another cool idea, but it really makes you wonder how much of this shit we're putting in the air is gonna end up killing us.

Live fast and die young, right? Leave a beautiful corpse.
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HonusWScruggs
06/10/09

@joelydanger: I know exactly what you mean, but just because something is moving around in the air doesn't, by itself, justify the conclusion that it's killing us. All that RF energy could be no more harmful than a slight breeze.

Which, incidentally, can also create quite a bit of electricity with the right collection mechanism.
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joelydanger
06/10/09

@HonusWScruggs: @Daniel Grinton: Yeah I realize its not actually putting anything into the air, it was just a figure of speech. I'm not one to be paranoid and I understand the technology, but I guess what I mean is that it should make us ask ourselves some good questions. I just think it would be a shame if in our addiction to cooler toys and functionality we find out later on that one of our greatest loves is killing us. Of course I'm not saying this is the case, but imagine if wifi technology turned out to give people brain tumors. I don't think a good deal of people would give it up.
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
06/10/09

@joelydanger: Well, consider that the energy the sun puts out can/does kill us, so there's already harmful stuff out there.
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RobotVampire
06/10/09

@joelydanger: I see where your coming from. If they can generate electricity from these ambient waves I would hazzard to guess that long term it's not good for the human body. But if they will just finish that cure for cancer, nothing to worry about!
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
06/10/09

@RobotVampire: I like the note at the end of that article:

EDITORS NOTE:

Since the original publication of this article we have been inundated with responses from the public at all walks of life. It is important to note that research is ongoing with DCA, and not everyone is convinced it will turn out to be a miracle drug. There have been many therapies that were promising in vitro and in animal models that did not work for one reason or another in humans. To provide false hope is not our intention. There is a lot of information on DCA available on the web, and this column is but one opinion on the topic. We hope you will do your own research into the situation. So, we have added links to resources at the end of this column.
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