Diebold’s electronic voting machines are getting a lot of heat for security leaks. This Wired article explains how Diebold’s voting machines are vulnerable to hackers. In a paper posted on the university’s website, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to quickly upload…
Monthly Archives: September 2006
T.M.X. Elmo Arrives
Whoever here doesn’t remember Tickle Me Elmo please raise the hand. I’m pretty sure no one will, since our little friend here is so known anyway. Well, Elmo is ten years old, and today, Fisher-Price has decided to introduce the new T.M.X. Elmo. Brace yourselves and go get ‘im quickly, though, for it is rumoured…
Normal Timepiece: Extra Model
I found this watch designed by Ross McBride fascinating in its concept–and to be honest, looking at it work, all that simply, is fascinating as well. Aye, aye, you’ll need to watch the little animation on normaltimepieces.com to really see what I mean (the picture posted here gives it away somehow), but be assured that…
Best of Niner Niner September 06
In Blogging Naked, Britain holds their first masturbate-a-thon and in China they put an end to funeral stripteases And in Bookadoodle Nancy Callahan continues her Getting Published series, while Starbucks sells childrens books and publishers contine to make billions Next up in Boomer 2.0 scientists try to map our neanderthal genes The unemployed…
Phone Jamming
That’d be something to make me perk up. A phone jammer. For those conversations on the cell phone that can’t be brought to another room or place for X reason, but that you still wouldn’t want anyone to spy on, I mean, accidentally hear. By creating a wall of sound around the person (it looks…
Pop Art Toasters Ahoy
Along with a nice vector illustration on the front page of the Pop Art Toaster website, comes said toaster itself, in red, blue, white and black colors, all with arte plate sets decorated with different prints. Flower, smiley face, cat or plane, whatever you’d like to see on these, they probably have made it–well, almost….
Pioneer: New PureVision Elite Plasma TVs
It was at CEDIA, and it was an expansion of the PureVision Elite line: Pioneer released three new plasma displays, dubbed PRO-940HD (42-inch), PRO-1140HD (50-inch), and PRO-1540HD (60-inch). All three models include: Support for Pioneer’s Home Media Gallery USB and Ethernet ports (with the possibility of streaming media from DLNA-compliant PCs) Support for Microsoft PlaysForSure…