News that personal medical devices such as insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other wearable or implanted devices, could be hacked sent shockwaves through the medical community but researchers from Purdue and Princeton were quick to react. They have developed a signal-jamming personal firewall to protect medical devices, such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, from being hacked.
Greenwave Reality is set to roll out Wi-Fi controlled light bulbs which will allow you to control your lighting with a hand-held remote or your smartphone or tablet device. The wireless LED lighting kit includes four 40-watt equivalent bulbs, a remote control, and a gateway box that you connect to your home router. Each bulb…
A trash talking Schiller made a point to compare the new iPad Mini to the other guys (ahem, Google Nexus 7) in today’s announcements telling the crowd, “You get a tablet experience on the iPad Mini. You get a scaled-up phone experience on the other”. Bunch of exciting Apple gear was announced today. Good specs…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, from Marvel Studios, is currently in pre-production with a release date of April 4, 2014. The movie is being directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and will star Chris Evans as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Solider, Anthony Mackie as The Falcon. and Scarlett Johansson as Natasha…
Scientists at the European Geosciences Union meeting reported that Lichen collected from Antarctica were placed inside Germany’s Mars Simulation Laboratory for 34 days where they were subjected to the same conditions they would experience on the Martian surface – same atmospheric, temperature, radiation, and pressure conditions. They survived.
Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth Max Max installment, began filming in July 2012 and will star Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight) as Max Rockatansky. It is being produced by Kennedy Miller Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The story will follow Max and a group of survivors fleeing across the Wasteland in a…
AMD is stepping up their game with the new Vishera series of chips. AMD notes that the new Piledriver processor architecture boosts performance by 15% over the previous generation of FX chips – and at a lower price. For instance, the unlocked FX-8350 offers 8 cores clocked up to 5GHz for $195. Ziff Davis noted…
Obama triggered listeners’ funny bone last night with this quip responding to a criticism from Romney about the size of the U.S. Navy, Obama said: “You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of…
A giant wave of super-hot plasma, a chunk larger than the Earth, broke away from the Sun on Friday 10/19/2012 and was captured by NASA on film (lower right section of the picture). It occurred at 4:15 AM EST. Once it started breaking away, the process only took 10 hours before it was out of…
Lost in the shuffle, the news that a white beluga whale named “NOC” could speak rudimentary English was never published until colleagues encouraged Sam Ridgway, of the National Marine Mammal Foundation, to publish the news that many are not aware of – whales can mimic human speech just like a parrot. A new paper in…
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