What times we live in. There was time when your kid’s play toys included firehouses, hospitals and police stations but that’s just so 1950s now, which is why Playmobil have released the Security Check Point.
I’m betting that’s one side effect of the War on Terror the experts didn’t predict. The blurb on Amazon [...]
When the esteemed leader of the states visits the terrorist nation of Australia in September to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a helicopter that jams mobile signals within the span of a football field will tail his motorcade. The measure is intended to counter cellphone-detonated bomb attacks, but I mean, now don’t the turrists know they have a few months to work around the whole dead mobile deal?
Plus, if they want to find him, won’t the massive rolling mobile outage give a pretty good indication of his position? That said, I’d like to borrow the gear next time I hit the airport. – Matt Buchanan
Banned: Mobile calls while Bush in Sydney [ZDNet Australia via Slashdot]
Image via ASM
Bush used to be big in TVs, back in the day when they were made of wood and weighed as much as a small cow.
It’s not the popular brand it used to be but it’s still plugging away on the HDTV front. These days it’s all about being ‘pocket-friendly’ and it’s new 15in HD Ready TV is certainly not going to break the bank. The display boasts a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and sports a HDMI input
It’s called the LCD15W008HD. Performance concerns aside it’s not a bad looker and what more would you expect for just £170. That’s cheap alright. It might not suit the living room but as cheap second TV for console use, it’s not that daft an option.
There’s also the LCD15W08DVDHD which sports an internal DVD drive due out in a few weeks.-Martin Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
has so far offered no indication he may resign but Internet
chatter is already speculating over a possible successor to the
former Bush administration official.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration asked
Congress on Friday to expand the number of people it can
subject to electronic surveillance in the United States.
Oscar-winner Sydney Pollack will direct a dramatisation of the controversial US election of 2000, reports say.
Oscar-winner Sydney Pollack will direct a dramatisation of the controversial US election of 2000, reports say.
Pop star Ricky Martin defends making an obscene gesture while singing about US President George W Bush.
Isn’t it about time that your house caught up to your car in terms of
remote access options? The Locca Access remote key entry allows you to
open your house’s front door from up to 50 meters away—super convenient
for those times when you are laden with shopping bags, when it’s dark,
when the weather is bad or when you’re just too damn lazy to use your
complicated keys.
You can even let guests into your house remotely from up to 20 interior
meters away, so there’s really no need to put on clothes or get up from
that sofa to answer the door. The Locca Access works in conjunction
with your existing locks, contains a 48 hours battery in case of power
failure and comes with a manual key override, so it seems like they’ve
got all your bases covered. Retails for £150.
Locca Access [Locca via UberGizmo]
Here’s a strange story from those paragons of sensible journalism over at Fox News. They claim that the FBI can now use the microphone on your cell phone to listen in on your conversations, even when the phone is turned off. Now, I’ve heard of special phones that are outfitted to work this way, but all phones? How is that possible? How can the FBI tap into every make of phone on every carrier when the thing is shut completely off and then have it send a signal out to their location without you ever knowing this? Not that I don’t have loads of faith in our government, but they don’t seem like they have their shit together enough to pull this one off.
I’m guessing that the fact checkers at Fox we’re too busy changing “holiday” to “Christmas” on all their scripts to figure out that the FBI replaces the phones of people they are tracking with specially outfitted models. And I’m hoping I’m right, as otherwise that’s some seriously creepy and privacy-invading business right there. Just to be safe I’m wrapping my phone in foam when I’m not using it, as there is no way I want the government knowing what I order at Subway.
Check the video report after the jump, and leave any extra info you have on this shady rumor in comments.
–Adam Frucci
FBI Using Cell Phones to Spy on You? [TechEBlog]