Inverted, ocean-bound “seascrapers”: aqua-communes for the future?
Did you know there was a Last Starfighter video game?
Energizer battery charger contains a trojan
SNES cartridge plays ROMs loaded from your computer
Sony reminds us of the high-cost of first generation 3D TV
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By Chris Scott Barr
No one wants to get a trojan on their computer, for quite obvious reasons. Thus one is careful about the sites they browse, the links they click and the software they download. Generally doing these things will keep your computer free of such malicious bits of software. But have you ever...
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Wha? Apparently the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a bit of malware, Arucer.dll, which allows remote system access on port 7777. CERT warns:
An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs. The backdoor operates with the privileges of the logged-on...
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I’ll be damned. A solar charger with a 1500mAh capacity battery and 5-volt output from a relatively well known manufacturer priced at $30. That actually seems reasonable.
The solBAT II from Scosche features a standard USB output port for charging most of your portable devices and it even comes with a little suction mount case...
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Tags: Backup Battery, Battery Charger, Capacity Battery, Chargers, Headline, Internal Battery, mobile, Mount Case, Phone Batteries, Scosche, solar, Solar Battery, Solar Charger, Solar Panel, Solbat, Standard Usb, Sunlight, Windshield
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By Evan Ackerman
This looks, at first glance, like an incredibly useful charging accessory: it plugs into a USB port and has adjustable teeth to charge any of those blocky, unfriendly, proprietary custom camera batteries. Any maybe it still is an incredibly useful charging accessory… But when we wrote about it last July, we were...
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Tags: Ackerman, Batteries, Battery Charger, Camera Batteries, Camera Battery, Cameras, Different Kinds, digital cameras, First Glance, gadgets, Teeth, Universal Power, USB, Usb Camera, Usb Charger, Usb Port, Volts
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