If you’re traveling and you can’t find a WiFi connection, it’s handy to be able to route your laptop’s traffic through your phone. Windows and Mac users have been able to easily tether their BlackBerries this way for some time, and Linux users can do the same with the help of Barry, an Open Source […]
Earlier this week, there were a number of high profile Twitter account compromises that were made possible using a common dictionary attack technique. Basically, nothing was in place to keep an attacker from quickly submitting thousands of login attempts against an account, cracking the password in an evening of work. One tool that can be […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Just Ducky Gal’s Star Trek embroidery project, featuring your fave Holodeckers wearing Carmen Miranda headdresses.
”Ping Genius Loci” by Aether Architecture is an architectural installation built from 300 radio networked, solar powered, and self-sustainable intelligent, analog pixels. The pixels are placed on a 20 by 20 meter grid and interface with people walking through the grid. Interesting way to create physical pixels, although there might be a problem if it […]
Ryan writes in- This could make an interesting MAKE hack. I’m sure the brainwave scanner isn’t high quality but it still could be neat to take apart and come up with some projects. Toy trains ‘Star Wars’ fans to use The Force… Could The Force be with you? A toy due in stores this fall […]
Vacamaca put together this goofy plushie mashup on Instructables.
This project, called “Reddot”, reacts to human interaction in the lobby of an office building by displaying color flows in a three-dimensional plexiglass grid that tracks pedestrians as they walk by. The project uses a unique form of presence detection by projecting lasers onto people’s bodies and tracking how far they are from its face, […]
