After the Guardian’s exposure of the insecurity of British passport RFID and the marketing of RFID blocking wallets (thanks to Blogzilla for this link), here is a set of resources from Roger Johnson’s Vulnerability Assessment Team at Los Alamos.
Light Blue Touchpaper has archived a set of papers from the Los Alamos lab since they can be difficult to access outside the US.
This wonderful building, the Nakagin Capsule Tower, was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1970-1972 and built in the Ginza district of Tokyo. See Dork Magazine, and arcspace for more information including interior photos. [Source: Maximalism] (more…)
Hitachi have demonstrated a brain-machine interface allowing users to perform simple switching. “In the experiments, test subjects were able to activate the power switch of a model train by performing mental arithmetic and reciting items from memory.” (more…)
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The indian Defence Research and Development Organization have test fired a battlefield nuclear capable missile shortly after a similar test by Pakistan. The Prithvi II should take 300 seconds to travel 150 km (90 miles) to target. [Source:Reuters] (more…)
