CNN announced that it has made its 24-hour news network available for live streaming. CNN.com/video has entered a new video beta to test out the new features it introduces. You can watch previously archived collections and TV Shows as well as CNN's live broadcast - with a catch. In addition to being able to watch CNN videos on the web, you can also watch them on the new iPad … [Read more...]
gScreen’s SpaceBook Is Here To Serve Up Its Dual-Display Laptop
Fitting more display space in a portable package has seemed like the northwest passage when it comes to laptops. Even if you could make the room, the second monitor is just another draw on the notebook's battery, so you start to wonder if it's even worth it. MEDL Tech introduced a portable second display for laptops and other displays last year. Even Lenovo had their W700ds … [Read more...]
Wirelessly Hijacking What’s Typed Into a Keyboard
http://vimeo.com/2007855 This reminds me of Van Eck Phreaking where you could do the same thing with CRT monitors. The video is 3 years old but still a bit scary. Good luck finding a laptop with a P/S2 port on it. Read the full article and download the paper on wirelessly reading from a wired keyboard using its own electromagnetic emanations. … [Read more...]
How Do I Install A Driver When The Hardware Doesn’t Show Up In Device Manager?
I was working on a computer recently that was getting a fresh install of Windows XP on it. After the Windows setup was completed, it had a few unknown devices. One of those devices was the network card, so I downloaded the driver from HP and moved it over to the computer by USB figuring I could download the rest directly once I could get the NIC installed. I ran through the … [Read more...]
The End Of The Camera Focus May Be Upon Us Thanks To Lytro’s Light Field Technology
Lytro is a new company that is bringing years of academic research to the consumer electronics market. Their big break-through is related to the digital camera and allowing you to define where you want to focus of the image to be after the picture is taken. Remember when you learned with modern cameras how to do that half-button press thing so the focus will grab what you're … [Read more...]