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MINI’S AUGMENTED truth ad

We were shocked last month when we saw augmented truth being done totally in flash. It hasn’t taken as well long to go mainstream though. tiny has incorporated it into a recent German language magazine ad campaign. The fiduciary marks really work […]

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BUSINESS CARD AVR BOARD updated

Evil mad scientist Laboratories has updated their service card AVR breakout boards to version 1.1. We suspect the modifications will most likely make them even a lot more popular. The boards are created for the ATmegaXX8 household of microcontrollers. The center has […]

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DISMANTLING THE storm WORM BOTNET

Zero Day has an interview with German researchers who have found a way to take down the storm Worm botnet. Their program, Stormfucker, takes advantage of defects in Storm’s command network: Nodes that are NAT‘d only use a four-byte XOR challenge. Nodes […]

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SNES CARTRIDGE budget

[gamemaster87] put together this SNES wallet. It isn’t just a wallet, it also has internal lighting and theme music. He harvested LEDs from Christmas lights, switches and battery compartments from an old all in one joystick, and the sounds from a holiday […]

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THE NARCISYSTEM

The Narcisystem is part of an art screen where [Eric] strapped himself to as many biometric sensors as he could. The core of the system was a Funnel IO which includes an Arduino, Xbee plug, as well as LiPo charging circuit. It […]

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HAPTIC COMPASS

[eric], influenced by this Wired article, built his own haptic compass. named “the clown belt”, it is a belt with 12 bit vibrating motors mounted evenly all around. A digital compass vibrates whichever motor is closest to north at all times. This […]

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