The most secure USB drive in the world

Or at least, if not the most secure USB drive, certainly among the first, and sure enough, a nice bit of trouble for any aspiring hacker who should accidentally run into one of them wishing to find out what it contains. We are talking about the latest release by MXI

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Google is purchasing a drone. What do they have in mind?

According to some German newspapers, Google recently went shopping in Germany, and Google purchasing drones to be more precise in the small town of Buchen, siege of Microdrones GmbH, a factory which, as the name may suggest, produces drones, or more specifically, miniature quadricopters. Microdrones’ quadricopters are devices which, in

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A necklace or a hidden video camera?

As men, we know how our women love to be always well dressed and accurate up to the smallest detail of their style, and how everything must be in harmony, from shoes to hairstyle, from shirt to necklace. What we might not know, instead, is that what apparently looks like

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Eyes of a bee for flying robots

Bees, as Mother Nature gave them a very small brain, have to place a great deal of trust in their visual abilities in order to survive and get oriented in ever-changing environments. To better understand how these little insects’ sight works, and how it affects their lives, a group of

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Autonomous quadricopters, your eyes can fly

Autonomous Quadricopters as an Aerial Surveillance device? Approximately a week ago, we posted an article about a miniature quadricopters which can be controlled remotely thanks to an iPhone application, and that can be used for perimeter video surveillance, around parks or buildings, or even indoors thanks to the hulled rotors.

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Your GPS navigator? In your glasses

During the recent Wireless Japan expo, the Tokyo UEC (University of Electro-Communications) has presented the prototype of a wearable personal navigation system, which can easily be worn as it is contained inside a pair of special glasses. How GPS navigator work with glasses? In fact, we are not talking about

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Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to put a ban on BlackBerry

United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia place  ban on Blackberry? As we have repeatedly seen lately, often governments love to stick their noses in their citizens’ private lives and businesses, with the all-round pretext of “national security reasons”, such as, for example, screening of phone calls in the quest for

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Anti theft phone, for a quiet holiday time

In the summer months, when you leave your home for your well deserved holidays, what may keep you awake at night on the seaside or in the country, is the thought that your home may not be 100% protected from malicious intrusions. This worry may end up destroying an otherwise

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Online privacy is no more

Online Privacy? Just in case no one has noticed it yet, nowadays all our online activities are under control, and can be analyzed and thoroughly inspected anytime, with the all-seasons excuse of not better specified “national security reasons” which, especially in the US, allow the government to temporarily keep aside

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