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Bearing in mind that Security.org usually wants to sell you a fix to the problems they talk about, they are warning users of some models of Kensington cable locks for notebook computers that the product can be easily defeated with a dollar’s worth of common office supplies (the exact method isn’t given). While that’s sort…
Slate takes a break from telling people to use Firefox and Christopher Bitchens rants (oh man, BURNED YOU GOOD! I gotta get a snack now) to take an entertaining romp through the annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association, chock full of interesting pet gadgetry, including stops by booths selling dog and cat pheromones…
First of all, the name is horrid. It might not be so bad if searching for “sweep ez” on Google didn’t turn up a different product altogether, but it’s not like ‘SweepEZE’ is that strong to begin with. That is, of course, presuming that it is pronounced “Sweep Easy” and not “Sweep Easy E,” in…
Monday August 2th, 2004 Rio Carbon: 5GB iPod Mini Fighter Siemens SK65 With Blackberry Email Rio Forge (Sort of) Announced Upcoming US Phones Roundup RoboMessiahWatch: Walking On Water Hitachi Develops High-Res Flexible Display https://gizmodo.com/rio-carbon-5gb-ipod-mini-fighter-18671 Tuesday August 3th, 2004 Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock Plus with Bluetooth for Cameraphones iRiver PMP-100 Series On Sale (Maybe? Soon? We…
3D gaming and cellular phones have remained separate for some time now. I think the only “solutions” I’ve seen are related to Java. [Things like J2ME, for instance. – ed] Now Mitsubishi, famous for the Japanese Zero and teenager-aimed car advertisements has created a fully OpenGL ES Ver. 1.0 software library for phones that runs…
Nintendo is following up their well-received custom Game Boy Advance SPs (like the popular NES Edition model) with an all-new, “girl-targeted” ‘Pink’ model, essentially a reissue of the ‘pink satin’ model available since launch in Japan. I take some offense, though, that only girls will find the new Pink edition appealing; I think it will…
Kenneth Armstrong wrote in with this report: The Davinci Project, a Canadian team vying for the ANSARI X PRIZE unveiled its Wild Fire rocket yesterday in Toronto. The plan is to have a balloon carry it to 60,000 feet over the Canadian prairies and engage the rocket which will make “The da Vinci Project is…
Clearly, the Acer TravelMate 370 notebook will not a happy gamer make – that’s clear from just the first paragraph of BIOS’s review. But if you’re just looking for a decent machine to get some work done, the 370-series might just barely meet your needs. But despite a fairly positive review on BIOS, I’m thinking…
CNet has a pre-release review of Windows XP Service Pack Two, and while a lot of the details don’t really interest us that much, there are some nuggets that users of Tablet PCs and Windows Media Center Edition PCs might be glad to hear: Other SP2 goodies include Windows Media Player 9.0, Bluetooth Client 2.0,…
We pinged Flexilis’s John Hering [second from the left], part of the team behind the world record-setting Bluetooth connection (and exploit) and creators of the BlueSnipe rifle. John talked about the still-lingering weaknesses in most current Bluetooth-enabled phones, plans Flexilis has in the future to help cell phone manufacturers lock down their security, and how…
PhoneMag has a lot of information from a “trusted Asian carrier source” about Motorola’s upcoming MPx and MPx220 smartphones, included (projected) release dates for September 27th for the MPx220, and November 30th for MPx, although the latter may be delayed until 2005. According to the source, Motorola is still working on the firmware and deciding…
Wired News has a story about the BlueSniper rifle, a yagi-antenna and scope affixed to a gun-like stock that this week broke a distance record for BlueSnarfing (pulling up phone book and text message information from insecure Bluetooth-enabled phones) by slurping data from a Nokia 6310i from 1.1 miles away. There’s more to the article…
When I called TurboXS to ask about their new TXS DTEC controller, they acted a little confused that anyone would, you know, actually be interested in their product. Let’s see, a “programmable, upgradeable, automotive performance tool” that is controlled by plugging it into a Game Boy Advance. Hrm, no, don’t know anyone interested in that.…
So I’m a little confused by this ClickV mouse. Clearly, it has a speaker inside of it; I think we can all agree that a blossoming cone of translucent blue means “sound” when placed next to anything other than a Maxi Pad. But some of the other specification bits are confusing, like “Boat Song method,”…
Everyone is carrying on about the Karrysafe Phonesafe wristband [pictured left] and I guess it’s sort of interesting, although it reminds me a little too much of the sort of electrical tape contraptions we would rig as young Ninjas-In-Training, but just as interesting to me (while we’re copping links from the Red Ferret himself) are…
SorobanGeeks passes on some first impressions straight from Korea of iRiver’s new wearable flash memory MP3 player, the N10, as well as some pictures that are probably stock photography but that I hadn’t seen; this picture showing how the headphones double as a necklace was especially interesting, I thought. You guys know how I feel…
Alone, this post on Powerpage.org about using the Airport Express in a hotel room might not be quite link-worthy, but as people keep adding comments to it with their experiences, it’s starting to become even more interesting. It would be nice if hotels would start making information about their “in-room internet” a little more detailed,…
I got a surprising amount of buzz back from the Citizen Alterna watches we talked about just a few days ago, most of it relating to the fact that the design for these watches isn’t exactly new. While the strap and case are certainly updated, this post on the Poor Man’s Watch Forum (who knew?)…
We don’t normally talk about book reviews, but since Mark Goldstein’s Photography Blog is one of our favorites (and we must admit a certain weakness for O’Reilly books) I think we’ll make an exception as he reviews “Digital Photography Hacks” by Derrick Story. The short end? He likes it a lot, which is fairly high…
Why do people have BBQs on a Thursday night? It makes no sense. It confuses me in the same way that PDA Buyer’s Guide reviewing a Gateway M275XL Tablet PC does, which is to say that I sort of stare for a second then go ahead and figure what the hell. Fortunately, their review itself…