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Gadgets

New PIN Crackers Make Card Skimmers Look Small-Time

3:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Instead of using mechanical means to steal from debit cardholders, some thieves are using malware to swipe huge numbers of encrypted and unencrypted PINs. It’s not yet widespread, but it’ll take serious work to prevent. More »
Design

Bathroom Pin Scale Makes Knowing Your Weight Twice as Painful

11:20AM Sean Fallon | This bathroom scale by designer Jim Ruck takes a painful-looking approach to the simple act of weighing yourself in the morning. Instead of a platform, the users stands on thousands of pins. More »
Gadgets

Techie Visa Card Features Buttons and Screen to Generate CCV Dynamically

5:35AM Mark Wilson | In the interest of thwarting credit card theft, Visa is testing some pretty interesting card technology with a handful of European banks. Using what appears to be Visa’s mutant hybrid of a credit card and a pocket calculator, users can enter their PIN into the card itself and have a security code generated on the fly. More »