Researchers at Intel are confident we will be using brain implants to surf the web using only our thoughts. The first goal is to decode common human brain signals. Back in the 50s and 60s, both the US and the Russians were doing some pretty bizarre brain experiments… some of which were of the “open […]
Tags: hack, health, implant, privacy, psychology, software
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Over at Gizmodo they are talking about a new concept device that blew my socks off. The idea would be to implant a bluetooth touch-sensitive display into your arm, and power it using the readily available oxygen and glucose supplies whizzing through your bloodstream. Pretty crazy huh?
Tags: culture, hack, health, implant
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As I stood there at the cash register (a PC running POS software), I noticed an upturned napkin with some writing on it. I couldn’t believe that someone (probably the manager) had written down not only the username and password (clearly marked with labels USERNAME and PASSWORD) but also the site those credentials were used […]
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I just found this Elective Home Surgery FAQ published by BMEZine. While I don’t suggest anyone do any kind of home surgery, this info might be useful for those that choose to. I’m re-posting it here to help protect the information in case BMEZine ever bites it. Please check the BMEZine site for the most […]
Tags: hack, health, implant, rfid
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Back when I got an RFID implant put into my left hand, the first guy to interview me was Shannon Larratt from BMEZine. We loosely kept in touch for a while after that, and he mentioned to me the relatively new concept of obtaining a sixth sense through the implantation of magnets in the fingertips. […]
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If you’ve ever had to move a bunch of public facing servers from one IP address subnet to another, you know there is a period of down time while your DNS records update around the world. That down time, as everyone familiar with DNS services knows, is usually between 4-48 hours, depending on TTL values […]
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Over the years, I’ve come to inherit and keep watch over several server rooms for various companies around the Pacific Northwest. The recent heatwave got me thinking a lot about AC system design as it relates to server rooms. As is typical for small to medium sized companies, these server rooms have anywhere from 1 […]
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Even though I’m transitioning away from Dell PowerEdge servers in favor of HP ProLiant boxes, with their fancy integrated iLO adapters and such, I still find I need to manage a Dell box from time to time. Sometimes, like when I use a Dell NAS 745N box that comes with Windows Storage Server 2003 as […]
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Ok, so the title is a (bad) play on Soylent Green. So what? Today I learned something interesting. If you need to do any RFID testing or research on liquid interference typical of meat or people, brown sugar is a great analogue. An unopened bag has interference properties very similar to that of humans, or […]
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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 […]
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