Monday, 18 June 2012

WWDC: a dining table made ​​of 100 iPad Retina

Some would call this mess, or suggest Apple's megalomania. One thing is certain; the Apple brand has made a show of strength with this interactive display table at the WWDC, the conference for developers that takes place currently in San Francisco. This is actually a support consisting of not less than 100 iPad Retina (third generation) connected.

Project Smart Sand: Sand man within reach of robot

We have already had to deal with spam servers, sports coaches and even robots that manufacture other, but robots that have the ability to replicate forms, remains an unexplored area.

This project called Smart Sand (for sand intelligent) has the ultimate objective of enabling the design of mini-robots as big as grains of sand. These robots will interact with each other from information, stick to each other physically responds intelligently to a given shape.

TweetGif hacked, 10,000 Twitter accounts released by Anonymous

Members of the collective Anonymous have attacked TweetGif service, which allows sharing on the microblogging site animated Gif. By exploiting a security flaw SQL, Anonymous has once again delivered a show of force by accessing the database of the site, collecting no fewer than 10,000 Twitter accounts. Announced on behalf of the group of hackers, the attack took place on the night of Monday to Tuesday.

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Facebook could launch its App Center this week

The site Business Insider reports that the Facebook App Center could emerge this week. This equivalent of Facebook by the Apple App Store would be to encourage developers to create applications dedicated to the site.

Business Insider quotes an anonymous source, but "directly informed by Facebook of this service," which explains that this service will be available "in the coming days." Facebook has not made any comment about this possibility, but the site had already announced some time ago that an outflow during the month of May for this service was possible.

The gel that turns the screen of the iPhone keyboard

Despite a worldwide hit, the iPhone and its touch screen still does not satisfy everyone. Researchers have designed a rather special gel that can turn the touch screen of the iPhone screen to physical keys. To be more precise, this substance affixed to the 3.5-inch touch-sensitive surface, detects the virtual keys and highlights when they appear.