Review: SpareOne Emergency Mobile Phone
Call for help with this emergency GSM cellie, with or without your SIM card.
Computers & Mobile
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Lego Desktop Power Supply
I like this creative way of packaging up an ATX power supply that Instructables user jtmanders created. He added terminals for 5v, 3.3v, and GND, a power LED indicator, as well as a power switch
A new micro-controller board at the Saint Malo Mini-Maker Faire
Uroš Petrevski and Draško Drašković, two makers from Paris, used the Saint Malo mini-Maker Faire to unveiled a new board, the WeIO.
The Web Developers Are Coming?
Today I spent the day somewhere where you might not think to find makers: the Great British Node Conference. For those of you who haven’t come across it yet, node.js is a server-side solution for JavaScript—it’s an event-driven Javascript platform which does non-blocking I/O—and is rapidly gaining popularity, and mindshare amongst the web communit
Paper Collages of Screen Resolutions and Aspect Ratios
Artist Aram Bartholl created these paper collages representing the dimensions that we have historically experienced digital visual information through, called “Graphic Arrays.”
Hacking the Fingerprint Scanner on the Apple iPhone 5s
Just days after the release of the iPhone 5s last week—which comes with a fingerprint scanner built into the home button—the biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims to have successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple’s TouchID.
Apple’s Invisible Chip: M Stands for “Magical?” – UPDATED: They Found It!
It didn’t take long for iFixit to teardown Apple’s new iPhone 5s, but what they found is perhaps less interesting than what they didn’t.