Pretty cool effects, 3D light projection on a 3D surface.
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XSS vulnerability allows MAC address geolocation
Services like Skyhook and Google Maps provide geolocation services. This data is collected from cell phone towers and the MAC addresses of broadcasting wireless networks. Your phone or other device then looks up nearby wireless networks, towers, and uses the data to triangulate your location. Pretty awesome, huh? Well, turns out that one of Verizon’s [...]
Brother AiRScouter – 16″ display projected straight into your retina
Brother showed off a prototype of their retina display device at “Brother World Japan 2010″ on September 15th. The wearable sunglasses with creepy cyborg extension provide a virtual display projected straight into your eye (safely). The display appears to the viewer to be a 16″ square screen about three feet in front of you. Brother [...]
Stephen Fry on the iPad
Noted British actor and generally really cool guy Stephen Fry wrote an article in Time magazine about his visit to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, meeting with Steve Jobs, and first experience of the Apple iPad. Fry reminisces about being the second (to Douglas Adams) Briton to own a Macintosh in 1984, and the joyous experience [...]
April Fool’s
It’s April 1st, and on the internet, that means big companies try very, very hard to make us laugh, and, as usual, fail miserably. On another note, xkcd adapted what is apparently an older WordPress theme, had some help rewriting the jQuery, and made a command-line interface for the comic. For easter eggs (or spoilers, [...]
Chinese knock-off MP3 player
So I bought one of those Chinese knock-off MP3 players on eBay. I lost my old Creative and don’t really feel like spending a lot of money on something I really only use in my car, so I decided to take the $45 plunge and see what was lurking at the bottom. As an MP3 [...]