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The Tesla Gun
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Long range WiFi antenna from Illy coffee can
I have a stack of half finished projects that I'm trying to complete. Happily, the first one was finished late last night: a long range Wi...
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Why three prongs?
Why do AC cords need three prongs? If there is no positive or negative in AC systems, why do we have HOT and NEUTRAL? I attempt to shed light on some of these mysteries.
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Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip
The latest news on hardware security research and achievements
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Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package
This article is now available in Vietnamese Bộ sạc iPhone của Apple . Disassembling Apple's diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals ...
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How To Train Your Robot
Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. “In what programming language?” you may ask. Well…I didn’t use a programming language, at least none that you know of. In fact, I…
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Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Body Hacking: Thoughts Regarding My Magnet Implant
I've had a magnet implanted in my finger for about three years. Here are some thoughts about having the implant and feeling a whole new world.
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Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL
London's Transport for London has a wonderful service called Countdown that can give live bus arrival times. For example, here's a page s...
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The New iPad's Screen Under the Microscope
Like any self-respecting UI designer, I have a microscope 1 sitting on my desk. 2 Here are some pictures comparing a bunch of different screens. They're all taken at approximately the same magnification. 3 At the scale that the pictures were taken, the width of this bar equals about 1mm:
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Our 3d printer is better than yours
TU Wien News. Press releases. Calendar of Events. University Gazette.
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On CPU backdoors - Trusting hardware
So, you're a decent paranoid person, running only open source software on your box: Linux, GNU, etc. You have the feeling you could, if you ...
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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did
The new biography Steve Jobs contains a remarkable claim about the power supply of the Apple II and its designer Rod Holt: [1] Instead o...
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My foxhole radio
As a child I'd made a crystal radio set and had been meaning to make one again when I came across stories of foxhole or PoW radios made f...
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From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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The Moore's Law free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle.
Or, A Heterogeneous Supercomputer in Every Pocket In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, bu…
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Two-color Makerbot released
Discover MakerBot's classroom solutions: 3D printers, software, and certification that help teachers pioneer 3D printing in education.