Taking a Trip to the ATM? Beware of ‘Skimmers’. Skimming is the theft of credit card information used in an otherwise legitimate transaction. Instances of skimming have been reported where the perpetrator has put a device over the card slot of an ATM (automated teller machine), which reads the magnetic strip as the user unknowingly →
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/renewables-now-produce-22-percent-worlds-electricity Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11061538/EU-to-ban-high-energy-hair-dryers-smartphones-and-kettles.html Does this make sense or is this just stupid? Posted from WordPress for Android →
Farnell/Newark/Element14 has been running a Conductive Ink Challenge with deadline of 31st August 2014. In it the competition the plan is to draw artistic circuits by hand using nickel or silver-laced “ink”. The aim is to make eye-catching piece of art. Judging is based on creativity, originality and technical and is final To test conductive →
There has been lately some interesting science new and product articles on special camera technologies: World’s Fastest Camera Takes 4.4 TRILLION Frames Per Second: Researchers in Japan have developed a motion picture camera that can take 4.4 trillion frames per second. The work was published in Nature Photonics. They call their technique “sequentially timed all-optical →
This is a very interesting idea. http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-musclememory-programmer Posted from WordPress for Android Video: DIY: Haptic Gloves Teach Touch Typing →
Is virtual reality hot or not? At this time it seems to be very hot again. In the wake of Facebook’s purchase of Oculus VR, can this revolutionary technology triumph anew? The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality article is a good (long and detailed) overview of what virtual reality has been and →
Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here article tells that a briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world. In the 2001 action movie Ocean’s Eleven, criminals use an electromagnetic weapon to black out a portion of Las Vegas. It might have seemed to bevVery futuristic at the time, but nowadays the threat is real and →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-always-as-green-as-you-think Posted from WordPress for Android →
Linux 3.17-rc2 Release Marks 23 Years of the Linux Kernel. Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.17-rc2 today in commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the original kernel announcement. On 25 August 1991 Linus announced his new OS project to the Minix users list. Good work for 23 years. There has been almost 23 years of Linux →