Tag: Hardware
A2DP aka Stereo Bluetooth on Mac OS X: finally an easy and quality solution
I’ve bough myself a Sony SRS-BTM30 (nice little speakers with built-in bluetooth stereo receiver) thinking Apple, as it boasts bluetooth on all their peripherals, would obviously support this (MS already does for a long time). I was of course very very wrong. There are several forums and threads with half-baked solutions mostly around the a2dpcast…
Simple remedy for a big problem: how to disable the RFID on your passport
Sooner or later if you live in a country with the visa-waiver program with the US (i.e. most EU countries and a few more) your passport will be issued with a always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials – and hackers – to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid about strangers slurping…
Turning a camera phone with bluetooth into a mouse (HID for you and me)
What a great idea! Turning a camera phone into a bluetooth mouse using a Java application! At the moment it uses Nokia software suite to transfer data, ideally it should use the standard bluetooth HiD spec which he says he’s developing. Brilliant!
GNU Radio: hacking the last frontier
Imagine a combination of hardware and software that could receive and transmit at any frequency. Imagine you could have an FM radio that turns into a GPS receiver that turns into a RFID reader. Or a Radar. Or a Digital TV Receiver. Or a mobile phone. Or a Wi-Fi scanner. All at the click of…
ID tags
Recent discoveries and techonogies are pointing in the direction of mass use of micro ID tags.The RFID tags (Radion Frequency ID) could be as small as a grain of rice and placed just about anywhere. The prediction: I forsee a future where all our consumables (cd’s, books, computers, magazines, tabacco, deodorants, toothpaste, etc…) will have…
