Whoever, during the course of his everyday job, must deal with sensitive or confidential information, such as for example credit card numbers, personal details, commercial or contractual information, knows very well that this data must be handles with the utmost care. What often one may not know is that even though you delete this information, [...]
Archive for April, 2010
A bulletproof T-shirt? Nice and easy
April 29th, 2010
admin Generally, when talking about bulletproof vests, the first thing that comes to our minds is certainly not a comfortable feeling. Usually, protection has a price, and often this price is paid in terms of comfort, wearing heavy armors that protect us from potential dangers but make it hard to move easily without sweating heavily. In [...]
Leica to present its first GPS digital camera
April 29th, 2010
admin Leica has just announced the worldwide market launch of its V-Lux 20, a compact digital camera which, along with the usual characteristics of reliability and extreme precision which one can expect from anything manufactured by the German giant, sports a new feature which makes it the first standard type photo camera equipped with GPS positioning [...]
How a Spy Phone works
April 26th, 2010
admin The software that turns your ordinary handset into a spy mobile works in a completely invisible fashion, in order to avoid arising any suspicion in its user or alert him, so that he can keep using his phone normally and reveal all his secrets to you. This is made possible by the opportunity to control [...]
Regaining your sense of balance with an inflatable vest
April 26th, 2010
admin Along with the sense of touch, the sense of balance, although it is not among the five basic ones, can be seriously compromised following to a disease, an accident or an injury. Rehabilitation therapies can last long, and during the therapy, the risk of a fall is always to be taken into consideration. In order [...]
Recovering the sense of touch thanks to carbon nanotubes
April 26th, 2010
admin Scientific research and technology can help improve our health and make our life better, especially for those who are impaired in one of the five vital senses. In this case, we are talking about the sense of touch, which can be lost following to an accident or a disease affecting the Central Nervous System, but [...]
An underwater robot for hull cleaning
April 23rd, 2010
admin Those who have been sailing at sea know well that the formation of barnacles which grow in the fissures of the hull of a boat and in the submersed part of the vessel can pose a serious threat, especially in terms of cost under the energy-saving point of view, as these formations can slow a [...]
Pocket video recorder, professional footage at all times
April 23rd, 2010
admin To take video footage of a professional type, you do not need to tote a heavy video camera, if you have the possibility of carrying with you a small pocket video recorder that you can use in all those situations when a hidden camera pr a pocket video recorder can provide a valuable help. For [...]
A biometric wallet protects credit cards and personal data
April 22nd, 2010
admin If you need to take your wallet with you at all times, you have to make sure that it is fully protected against unauthorized access or theft, especially if contains not only cash, but credit cards or sensitive data which might be used to give us a bigger trouble than the loss of a few [...]
How to tell an enemy by the eyes
April 22nd, 2010
admin A research project carried out by Southern Methodist University in Dallas, with funding from the US Dept. of Defense, is working on a new technology for photo and video miniature cameras, which thanks to its high resolution can identify enemies even inside a pitch black cave; this technology, named Panoptes, is also used in the [...]
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