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How Would YOU Use This? Microsoft Developing Pressure Keyboard With 256 Levels Of Sensitivity (Oh, And Win Stuff)
By David Ponce Lots of interesting stuff at SIGGRAPH this year. In this case, there’s a contest sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGGRAPH centered around a keyboard Microsoft Hardware is developing where each key is capable of detecting pressure in 8-bit resolution. In other words, in 256 levels of sensitivity. Current suggested uses for […]
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Twittering keylogger
[Kyle McDonald] sent in his latest project, a software keylogger that twitters what you type. He wrote it using C++ and OpenFrameworks. It logs each keystroke, then it posts to twitter 140 characters at a time. To protect himself, he set up a whitelist of private strings like passwords and credit card numbers that would […]
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Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires
narramissic writes “Two separate research teams have found that the electromagnetic radiation that is generated when a computer keyboard is tapped is actually pretty easy to capture and decode. Using an oscilloscope and an inexpensive wireless antenna, the Ecole Polytechnique team was able to pick up keystrokes from virtually any keyboard, including laptops — with […]
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High Tech Misery In China
theodp writes “Think you’ve got a bad job? Think again. You could be making keyboards for IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo and HP at Meitai Plastic and Electronics, a Chinese hardware factory. Prompted by the release of High Tech Misery in China by a human-rights group, a self-regulating body set up by tech companies will conduct […]
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Manhood Fail
Submitted by Victor S Comments closed: Browser Fail. Posts with a large number of comments are causing some browsers to fail while loading the page. We’re capping the comments after 300 until we can unfail this issue. Thx.
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Luxeed LED Keyboard Finally Up For Sale
By Luke Anderson Remember that colorful keyboard that we showed you last year? The one that promised that each key could change between one of 512 different colors? Well it seems that they have finally gotten around to mass-producing it for public purchase. Sure, it’s been a year and a half, but at least we […]
