This was posted on RFID Toys a little over six months ago, but I was just cleaning files from my cluttered laptop and re-discovered this gem. These guys over at the University of Virginia reverse engineered an RFID tag by physically shaving down the chip to reveal transistor layer after transistor layer, taking images of […]
I was going through the pictures on my phone’s storage card and came across this picture of a simply horrible ad. My hunch, which I’ve talked about before (here, and here), is that they purposely picked this ridiculous picture to capture my attention (which it did). The problem with this ad is, if I wasn’t […]
I recently received an email from a friend who wanted to get the low down on RFID enabled passports. She had received the following suggestion from another source: Some scary possibilities for identity theft are present with the technology chosen for new American passports – all newly issued American passports have it. A brief Google […]
I recently hit a budget crunch where I had to find an iSCSI SAN for our ESX 3.5 infrastructure. For $800 I was able to find a used Dell 745N NAS device, but I couldn’t find any iSCSI SANs for anywhere near the $1000 budget I had… not even used ones. I decided to go […]
Many people in physically smaller, more dense countries enjoy efficient, effective public transportation. For the typical American not living in New York, driving significant distances is a daily necessity. It is well known that when people get behind the wheel of a car, they change. Seemingly mild mannered, rational people become taut tripwires, ready to […]
If you know the name Thomas Edison but not Nikola Tesla, then you need to school yourself homeboy! If you don’t know either name, uhh… click here, or even here. Tesla was the shiznit when it came to being a genius. Unlike Edison who toiled away in warehouses with sometimes hundreds of drone “inventors” doing […]
Ok, I’ve got what some consider to be a body mod. I’ve got two RFID implants. In fact, my very first interview about my first implant was with BMEZine. But for me, this “mod” is purely functional. They don’t actually show (unless I want them to). Now these bagelheads over in Japan though, they take […]
The first I ever heard of Zach Galifianakis was when I stumbled upon a stand up comedy bit, well it was more like a sit down at the piano comedy bit, where one of the first things he talked about was his last name. He described a conversation he had with his father about how […]
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I’ve lived in the greater Seattle area just about all my life. Except for some short stints here and there, I always seem to end up back here. As a sort of humble tribute to Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know A District” segment on his show The Colbert Report, I figured it was high time I […]
A while back I did a review of some of Ananiah Electronics‘ RFID modules and readers. These are simple RF devices that fulfill the baseline requirement of an RFID device (periodically transmits an identifier)… but the great thing about these modules is the price. You can get them for a steal of a deal, which […]
