IN THE early hours of 18 June, a Mercedes coupé travelling at extremely high speed along a Los Angeles street smashed into a palm tree. It exploded into flames, killing the driver; the impact ejected the engine 50 metres clear of the car. Was it an accident? Or was the car hacked, allowing it to be driven off the road by remote control?
L33tdawg: Reminds me of the DiCOM-WAVE project from last year's HackWEEKDAY - an open source DICOM image viewer with Microsoft Kinect as its control interface.
Earlier this week at Microsoft's DemoFest in Redmond, Wash., the company's research arm showed off an incredible union of technologies that could finally usher in an inexpensive solution for people who want to communicate with a computer through sign language.
An entire year has passed since the launch of the original Nexus 7. We expected a successor to be announced before this year's Google I/O, and potential specifications have been floating around for longer than that. Imagine our disappointment then, when Google I/O's opening day keynote eschewed new hardware (and the Android version bump that customarily comes with new hardware) in favor of a series of impressive but smaller updates to many of Android's services and APIs. Hope springs eternal, though.
On the eve of 4 July, iFixit has found people are beginning to feel the same way about Apple that they did about the British colonial rule.
iFixit promised to issue 1,776 snap up free 'iPhone Liberation Kits' which basically lets you get at the guts of an iPhone.
Apple, which believes in taxation without representation, tries to stop its customers from replacing the batteries of its iPhone so that it can make money on repairs. It managed this by using pentalobe screws instead of the standard Philips variety.
By: Daniel Dimov
Google Glass is a wearable computer worn like a standard pair of glasses. The device displays information on a glass screen in front of the eyes of the user. It accepts voice commands that start with the phrase “ok glass.” Google Glass contains 12GB of usable storage and has a 5-megapixel camera which is capable of shooting 720p video. Users will be able to upload photos on the Internet. By the end of 2013, Google Glass will be available to consumers.
Pebble, the Kickstarter-funded smart watch, is headed to retail stores this Sunday, when Best Buy will begin carrying the iPhone-compatible Bluetooth accessory for $149.95.
Best Buy will be the exclusive retail partner carrying Pebble watches, the company announced on Tuesday, starting with the "Jet Black" model. Customers will be able to buy online as of Tuesday, while retail locations will begin selling the Pebble on Sunday.
Apple has filed a trademark application for "iWatch" in Japan, adding weight to rumours that the firm will enter the wearable technology market this year.
So saie Bloomberg, which reported today that Apple is seeking to protect the product name "iWatch", which it has categorised unsurprisingly as a "handheld computer or watch device". Apple apparently filed the trademark application with the Japanese Patent Office on 3 June.
While you’re trying to come up with an idea for your next project this guy’s been building his own helicopter from whatever parts he can find. He’s just one of the aeronautical hackers featured in a story in the Daily Mail. The article’s narrative leaves us with many questions, but there’s enough info to make it worth a look.
A Chinese accessory maker claims to have "permanently" cracked the Lightning authentication feature built into Apple's iOS 7 operating system, opening up the possibility for a wide range of manufacturers to make Lightning-compatible iPad and iPod accessories without Apple's approval.
It looks like Jake Eisenmann has done it again. A couple of years after the hobbyist hacker built his first 8-bit computer, he's cobbled together yet another one, but this time with a whopping 16 cores.
Appropriately dubbed the DUO Mega, the multicore wonder is made with 16 ATMega328p microcontrollers, each connected to an 8-bit data bus and designed to interpret a custom bytecode that runs the software.
