Unchained Reaction: Reality TV For Hackers
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame will star in a new reality TV show on the Discovery Network titled: Unchained Reaction. Adam and Jamie will team up as judges for the six part series which pits two teams against each other to build Rude Goldberg style contraptions. From the press release: Discovery Channel [...]
RIM: Balsille And Lazaridis Out; Heins In
After almost a year of investor backlash, Research In Motion is shaking up the top of their food chain. Jim Balsille and Mike Lazaridis, co-founders and co-CEO’s will be stepping down while the current COO, Thorsten Heins will be stepping in. RIM has been battered and bruised while trying to keep up with the top [...]
5 Must Have Rooted Android Apps
If you rock and Android device then you already know about the multitude of apps that are at your finger tips. For the sake of keeping you safe, manufacturers ship Android locked up without access to the full potential of the device. By throwing caution to the wind and rooting your device you open up [...]
Dude Plays Super Mario Kart In Real Life
I have spent many hours playing Super Mario Kart on my kids DS. This French dude has taken it to the next level by playing the game in real life. French humorist Rémi Gaillard drove a real go-cart through city traffic while dressed as Mario. As you can see from the video, Mario tosses banana [...]
Sony Gets Geohot’s Hard Drive
Seems like the Sony V. Geohot saga continues. According to Wired, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has order George Hotz to hand his computer over to Sony so that they can search his hard drive. This comes after the court’s previous decision to grant Sony a temporary restraining order against Hotz. Geohot’s attorney objected to [...]
RoboEarth: More Evidence Of Skynet
Remember the SkyNet like hand we featured earlier this week? Well here is more evidence that SkyNet is upon us. RoboEarth is a project being worked on by Phillips, the University of Eindhoven, Stuttgart, München, Zaragoza & Zurich. Its goal is to have a central location of instructions and navigation for robots. Robots can then [...]
Bing Piggybacking Off Of Google’s Results
Bing just got caught with it’s hand in Google’s cookie jar. Some Google employees decided to create a honeypot of sorts. They found a search term that returned no matches on both Google and Bing, created a “honeypot” page manually that returned results for the term, and they then had a bunch of people click [...]
Scientists Develop Terminator Like Hand
Scientists at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center have developed a robotic hand that resembles the hand of the T-800 robot from the Terminator movies. Scarily, the robotic hand’s strength and durabliity is right out of the Sci-Fi franchise. The hand has five articulated fingers that are powered by a [...]
Winner: iPod Nano Twiiter Contest
Congratulations to @MikeFancy on Twitter, he won the tech.nocr.at Twitter contest and a shiny new iPod nano is on it’s way to him. When we informed him that he was randomly chosen from the list of re-tweeters, he posted this to his twitter account: “I won an iPod Nano, just because I follow @technocrat_blog! A [...]
AirPlay On Linux
Apple’s AirPlay is a great technology. It lets you stream music and video wirelessly to Apple products like iPods, iPhones and to the Apple TV. It also can be used to stream to Apple approved hardware like speaker docks, AV receivers and stereo systems. The problem with it, like most Apple technology, if your not [...]
Eric Schmidt Stepping Down As Google CEO
In a bit of a shocker, Eric Schmidt announced today that he would be stepping down from his CEO role at Google. Why would someone at the helm of such a super power decide to step down? Simple, Larry and Sergei have grown up and are ready to lead Google. The company is as strong [...]
Reminder: iPod Nano Giveaway
Remember, we are giving away a shiny new iPod Nano to a random twitter follower/retweeter. All you have to do to enter is follow us at @technocrat_blog or re-tweet one of our tweets to be entered. One re-tweet per tweet (go ahead and try to figure that one out) per day and a follow will [...]
Geohot 1 – Sony 0
You must be living under a rock if you didn’t hear about Sony filing suit against fail0verflow and Geohot for their distribution of the PS3 jailbreak firmware. The first step in Sony’s legal battle involved a temporary restraining order (TRO) against them to stop the distribution of the code. That TRO case was heard earlier [...]
Motorola Tells Modders To Go Elsewhere
By Frank on Jan 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
Android by it’s nature is an open source platform, a platform that is open to anyone and any changes as long as they comply with the Apache 2.0 license. So why have manufacturers like Motorola and HTC spent so much time fighting against people modding or creating their own ROMs? That might be a question [...]
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