A new lighting product, GravityLight, allows an LED to run for 30 seconds from a 3-second pull of a string. The light has been designed for developing countries where sophisticated power grids are non-existent and technologies such as batteries and solar power are cost prohibitive. The kit includes an LED lamp and a sack that…
The most advanced brain-computer interface for operating a robotic arm has given a woman paralyzed from the waist down a new lease on life. Researchers implanted two chips into the woman’s motor cortex, the part of the brain responsible for body movements. Each chip is connected to 96 electrodes that are wired through the woman’s…
China plans to build a 120 million square foot city – from scratch. The Meixi Lake Master Plan project will be built in the metropolitan area of Changsha, China and will integrate mountains, lakes, parks, and canals in its architectural design. The city will be built around a 40 hectare lake which will act as…
Although it doesn’t use true (damaging) X-Ray technology, a microchip breakthrough from Caltech has given device developers the means to introduce T-Ray scanning in devices as small as a smartphone. T-Rays (terahertz waves) fall into a largely untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum—between microwaves and far-infrared radiation—and can penetrate a host of materials without the…
For the 12th year, Google has updated its Zeitgeist site for the year ending 2012, looking at the most popular search trends of the year. The results are based on 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages. And without further ado, here is Google’s top searches for 2012.
This 25-GPU cluster can cycle through 350 billion guesses per second and brute force any eight-character Windows password containing upper- and lower-case letters, digits, and symbols in under 6 hours. That is a total of 958 combinations in less than six hours. The GPU cluster is Linux based and features 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards…
Bitcoin-Central has reached an agreement with French payment processor Acoba and France’s Credit Mutuel bank to become a payment service provider. This will allow Bitcoin-Central to function much like a bank. it’s the first exchange of the digital currency to be licensed to operate as a bank and function within the framework of European regulations.…
The White House has announced that they have started a Pinterest account (WhiteHouse44 – Obama is the 44th President, get it?) and will begin pinning on December 17, 2012. No word on whether or not a Snapchat account will follow. According to the White House, pins will range from “inspiring images and quotes to infographics…
South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world with an estimated 98% of the population connected with broadband Internet and 2/3 of the population owning smartphone devices. But being ultra-wired does have its drawbacks. Officials estimate that 160,000 children between the ages of 5 and 9 are addicted to the Internet.…
In July 2012 at a Black Hat conference, Cody Brocious demonstrated how he could hack the keycard system used in hotels by spoofing the “portable programmer” device meant to be used for designating master keys and opening Onity brand locks whose batteries had died. With his $50 homemade device, he could insert the plug of…
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