Dominic Wilcox, british designer, has created a fully functional prototype pair of shoes with a built-in GPS that will guide you home. The name of this extravagant invention is “No Place Like Home” and it’s inspired by the famous novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in witch the protagonist Dorothy,
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Deads alive…in the memory with the QR code
Companion of every moment of daily life, the technology doesn’t abandon us even after the death. The idea comes from England by Stephen Nimmo, director of the funeral home “Chester Pearce” di Poole, that he thought to enclose the memory of the dead in Death QR Code (Quick Responses Code).
One second to identify a person: the new FBI system
Its name is NGI, Next Generation Identification, the ultra-fast program that will allows to the FBI to identify in a very short time the americans offenders. How i twill do? It will do by connecting to a database containing photographs, iris scans, fingerprints, voice samples, DNA samples and much more.
Coming soon the super smartphone batteries that will last 3 months
After the powerful GPS systems that have improved the use of our smart phones, a dream could became reality. Not days, not weeks, but even months could be the battery life of our phone. Fantasy? No, it’s the product of a made in Italy project that, thanks to the nanotecnology
Surveillance and security, the robot that acts like a guard in the flesh.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a new humanoid robot called Petman that could be used for military or civilian use, in rescue operations, for example. The new robots would not only be able to walk and run, but also to climb stairs, get into a vehicle and
From Spain a system to fool biometric scanners.
Researchers at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and West Virginia University have discovered a way to mislead iris biometric scanners used for access control in certain places. Can a Biometric Scanner Be Bypassed? When security systems based on iris scan create an imprint of the iris itself, they do not
USA, a robot creates a Wi-Fi network and performs reconnaissance.
It is not a simple WiFi robot for cracking Wi-Fi networks, but so much more. It is an robot made of aluminium with the shape of a tank and is able to create a Wi-Fi network and to extend it in potentially dangerous and hazardous places, where connecting to the
A “smart suit” which increases soldiers’ physical endurance.
A smart suit for defense? Yes. We are accustomed to different instruments used by law enforcement and military for self-defense purposes and to strengthen human capacity. Man is transformed, thanks to technology, in a veritable superman, combining intelligence, human natural strength and robotics. Smart Suit – Defense In The Future?
U.S.A., a man jams mobile phone calls on a city bus.
Phone jammer is now a necessity. Imagine being on a overcrowded city bus during the rush hour. There are those who converse with their neighbours and those who, instead, talk on the phone out loud, irritating the ear of the passengers. How many times have you found yourself in such
Researchers reveal the vulnerability of CCTV cameras.
We live in a world where surveillance CCTV cameras are quite wide spread and often give us the impression of living in a huge Big Brother. Despite the various controversies about privacy, they have, however, proved their effectiveness in preventing crimes and in helping to identify and stop dangerous criminals.