Friday, March 13, 2009
Peripherals
Researchers Decipher Keyboard Typing from Thin Air
11:59PM Mark Wilson | As long as someone isn’t looking over your shoulder and your computer is free from keylogging software, what you type should be pretty safe…or it was, until researchers learned to read your keyboard’s electromagnetic radiation. More »
Games
The Sega Genesis Is Back, Baby
11:21PM Mark Wilson | It’s not impossible to find a knock-off of a Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive), but this new version by Blaze may be the best reproduction yet. More »
Games
Metal Gear Solid Touch Sneaking Into App Store March 19th, Costs $10
10:45PM John Herrman | Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid Touch (also known as Time Crisis: The Revenge of Solid Snake) will be available for download next week for a predicable price of $US10. Unfortunately, the source only mentions a Japanese release. [Akihabara] More »
Computers
MacBook Modder: F**k It, I’m Putting a Screen in the Apple
9:27PM John Herrman | Reaching what is probably the final frontier of novelty last-gen MacBook mods, Macmods member EdsJunk has put a full-function colour LCD inside the Apple logo and hooked it up as a secondary display. More »
Cameras
Alien-Eyed Samsung Camcorder Explained, Ships Early This Summer
8:40PM John Herrman | At first, the confusing HMX-R10 drew comparisons—a submarine, a pill, a, cyclopic alien—but we didn’t really get it. Now we know: it’s a bid to fundamentally change how we handle cameras. More »
Music
iPod Shuffle Teardown Confirms It’s Tiny on the Inside, Too
7:53PM John Herrman | Every time a gadget of note comes out, one unlucky unit is indifferently plucked from the lineup, sent to iFixit and vivisected, piece by piece, for the world to gawk at. Your turn, new Shuffle! More »
Entertainment
Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer on Manipulating Apple Stock
4:02PM Brian Lam | It’s been interesting watching the CNBC’s bad habits come under fire by the mighty Jon Stewart. Gawker’s got a clip of Cramer as he appears on The Daily Show tonight, where Jim Cramer is quoted talking about manipulating Apple stock. More »
Regulars
What In Wired Hell Is This?
3:20PM Jesus Diaz | OK, this one caught me completely by surprise, because when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was an A/C duct. My head spins at the thought of replacing one of these. [Reddit—Thanks Jackie] More »
Software
Happy 15th Birthday Linux
3:01PM John Mahoney | Hey Linux kernel! You’re 15! You know what that means—look back on fond times, recompile, and gather all of your copyright-reform-loving, terminal-typing friends and have a rager! More »
Design
