By hooking a $250 Motorola RFID reader and an antenna to his laptop, Chris Paget was able to easily harvest and clone multiple RFID identity documents while driving through San Francisco. Fortunately for the victims Chris is a white hat hacker and only did this to prove that using RFID-enabled identify cards can only be [...]
Professor Erno Rubik is slated to unveil a new puzzle at a German toy industry fair Thursday. The Rubik’s 360 is a series of three nested transparent spheres. There are six colored balls in the center sphere. The goal is to move each to the corresponding color slot on the outer sphere. The zinger is [...]
This is going to be the last Super Bowl trailer I post this morning, I swear! With this new trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, we at last get a feel on how the movie will look like when it comes out in a few months. Enjoy!
Yep folks, geeks were truly blessed during the Super Bowl last night. First, there was a new exclusive trailer for Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen, and now, here’s a new one for the upcomming Star Trek movie. Enjoy!
Here’s the awesome 30-second Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen Trailer that ran during the Super Bowl game last night. It has everything to catch our attention: Explosions, evil robots, and even our friend Megan Fox, the wanna-be geekette. [Via Gizmodo]
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P.W. Singer was the Defense Policy Task Force coordinator for the Obama presidential campaign. He’s also a sexy geek. Jon Stewart calls him “the Shecky Greene of robotics.” Here he talks about the coming robot uprising and his book “Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century“.
Filmed during the Wired NextFest event located in Chicago in June 2005, (Yes, this is pretty old, but still cool nonetheless), these robotic stepping stones were used to demo a new kind of visual tracking system. Further details on what we think seems to be the same (or very similar) technology can be found here.
