br /What it doesbr /br /Generally speaking, Meetsee is a solution akin to a virtual office that will let you cope with remote worker challenges of every denomination. Every office comes complete with a customizable avatar and a full set of collaborative tools. br brThese tools include a file-sharing utility and a chat for instant communication among all parties, as well as support for audio conferencing and webcam. Moreover, you can easily add your Meetsee office both to your favorite website and your preferred social network. br brMetsee comes in three different plans -“Plus”, “Premium” and “Enterprise” – and they mostly differ on the number of individuals that can connect at the same time. Besides, the Enterprise incarnation boasts features for full customization such as integration with HR databases and custom branding. br brLastly, it is also important to mention that you can try out any of the featured plans for free during the current beta period – a very good opportunity to determine if this solution will accommodate your needs or not.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /How will the site advertise itself?br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /It is an effective way of connecting your distributed workforce and coordinating efforts over the Net.br /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“Your personal virtual office is a space online filled with rich ways to communicate, share content, collaborate on documents, and build rapport between remote co-workers.”br /br /Link: a href='http://www.meetsee.com'http://www.meetsee.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/meetsee-com-connect-your-distributed-workforce'http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/meetsee-com-connect-your-distributed-workforce/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=SY4LHjbo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=k2mdiQQY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=YaSmQBNx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=YaSmQBNx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=IjR0eIPj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=IjR0eIPj" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=kbT7lQm8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=whBl2jtx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=whBl2jtx" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/65O2ZqabsZ4" height="1" width="1"/

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Oh, woe is Wii. Sure, Nintendo's latest console is printing money, but it has a little problem on - or, rather, in - its hands: the US Patent Office has suspended a request by the company to issue a trademark for the "Wii Remote."

GamePolitics reports the application was put on hold due to the fact that "remote" is such a widely-used term, but the USPTO is willing to compromise. As long as the word "remote" is always preceeded by the word "Wii" (in all marketing, manuals, etc.) and Nintendo admits it holds no trademark on the word "remote," the government will reconsider.

Why not just go with "Wiimote," something that we (not Wii) and, well, everyone else have been calling it from day one? GamePolitics points out that Nintendo did, in fact, try for that one - only to learn that a Florida company markets a TV remote for children under the name "Weemote." D'oh. Perhaps Nintendo could take this opportunity to re-brand the controller? Think of the possibilities: the "WaggleWand," the "GameBaton," the ... "Einhänder!" Oh, wait. Why don't you give it a shot? (And, as the Superintendent says, "Keep it clean!")

Wee bit of trouble: Nintendo can't trademark 'Wii Remote' originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/29840?ns=guardianpageName=Science%3A+Body+swap+research+shows+that+self+is+a+trick+of+the+mindch=Sciencec3=The+Guardianc4=Human+behaviour+%28Science%29%2CNeuroscience%2CScience%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=James+Randersonc7=2008_12_03c8=1127800c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sciencec12=Human+behaviourc13=c14=h2=GU%2FScience%2FHuman+behaviour" width="1" height="1" //divpBrain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy./ppThe out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self. The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia./ppThe research follows a related study from the same group last year in which the scientists convinced volunteers that they were having an out-of-body experience. It was the first time it had been done in the lab and showed that the intensely spiritual experiences that patients sometimes have while on the operating table, for instance, can have a scientific explanation./pp"We are interested in how normal perception works, how we recognise our own body. And we do that by studying these perceptual illusions," said Dr Henrik Ehrsson at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. "Critically it depends on the visual perspective and the so-called multisensory integration or the combination of visual signals and tactile signals."/ppIn the new study Ehrsson and his colleague, Valeria Petkova, attached two cameras to the head of a dummy. These were hooked up to two small screens placed in front of their subjects' eyes. This gave the illusion that the person was looking through the mannequin's eyes. For example, when they looked down they saw the dummy's body and not their own./ppTo create the illusion of occupying the dummy's body, the team stroked the abdomen of the subject and the dummy at the same time while the subject watched the stroking via the cameras on the dummy's head. As a result, subjects reported a strong feeling that the dummy's body was their own. The technique is similar to the "rubber hand illusion", in which a subject can be convinced that a rubber hand is his or her own, but this is the first time the illusion has been extended to a whole body./ppThe illusion was so convincing that when the researchers threatened the dummy with a knife they recorded an increase in the subject's skin conductance response - the indicator of stress that polygraph lie detector tests rely on. "This shows how easy it is to change the brain's perception of the physical self," said Ehrsson, who led the project. "By manipulating sensory impressions, it's possible to fool the self not only out of its body but into other bodies too."/ppThings got even weirder when the researchers dispensed with the dummy and put the cameras on the head of another person. After carrying out the same double stroking routine the subjects were convinced that they were occupying another person's body. The illusion persisted even when the other person came over and shook the subject's hand, producing the sensation of the subject feeling as if they were shaking hands with themselves./ppThe researchers plan to use the out-of-body illusion to try to treat amputee patients that experience phantom limb pain in the arm or leg they have lost. "We have begun to realise that there could be a link between pain perception and the feeling of ownership of the body," said Ehrsson./ppAnother potential angle for research is body image in patients with anorexia. These people become obsessed with reducing their own weight even when they become dangerously thin. "Possibly this approach could be used for new diagnostic tools and maybe therapeutic tools to train people better to recognise their actual body size," he said./ppAnother application is in remotely operated robots, for example in nuclear power plants or surgery. "The hope is to elicit a full-blown illusion that you are the robot," said Ehrsson. /ppThe results are reported today in the journal PLoS One./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/humanbehaviour"Human behaviour/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neuroscience"Neuroscience/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vnhkntb0WRPif9pHE4oKf-V0Dp0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vnhkntb0WRPif9pHE4oKf-V0Dp0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

We got into some debate on the nature of TWIMTBP program in the General Radeon Discussion thread about FC2 driver issues.

I decided to just ask what is involved with NVIDIA's developer relations program, and got this answer:

Quote: 1. we examine the game engine and the developers and publishers objectives and suggest features that will look good and which will be fun, these are suggestions only, they are usually accepted where they make sense and are cost effective.
2. we provide details of what we have shipped and where so that the publisher/developers can see the installed base to judge whether enough people can enjoy the implemented features
3. we provide a wide range of tools to implement features include FXcomposer, texture tools, shader debugger, etc and then optimize them for performance such as PerfHUD, AGPerfMon, etc, see here; http://developer.nvidia.com/page/home.html
4. we provide technical support all thru this process both remote and on-site
5. we test the builds of the game at our Moscow labs, called GTL and provide documented feedback on bugs, perf and compatibility
6. we then promote games that have great features for GeForce owners to our Club SLI members, newsletter subscribers, and nzone.com visitors
7. we work with our AIC partners and OEM customers to also promote these games too

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/gizmodo-gallery-3m.jpg" width="494" height="328" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/Our Toys for Tots fundraiser and all mega gadget exhibition, a href="http://gallery.gizmodo.com"Gizmodo Gallery/a starts this Thursday in NYC. And among the ~40 devices we'll have more than just a a href="http://gizmodo.com/5098715/at-giz-gallery-103+inch-plasma"huge TV/a; we'll have one of the world's tiniest projector, like the a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/aiptek"Aiptek/a Wilson reviewed last week./p pI'd like to imagine that one day all cellphones have such components built in, but until then this is the best way to put a picture on your wall with hardware the size of a remote control./p pWhat should we play on it? What should we aim it at? I don't know, but if you've got the time, please stop by and try it out./p p[Thanks to a href="http://www.thereedspace.com/"REED ANNEX/a and thanks to our benefactor a href="http://www.gizmine.com/"gizmine.com/a]/p pbGizmodo Gallery/bbr /br / a href="http://www.thereedspace.com/"Reed Annex/abr /br / a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=151+orchard+street+nyie=UTF8oe=utf-8client=firefox-all=40.721226,-73.989122spn=0.009741,0.015814z=16g=151+orchard+street+nyiwloc=addr"151 Orchard Street/abr /br / New York, NY 10002/p pstrongGizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup/strongbr /br / The a href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"reader meetup/a takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called a href="http://www.theannexnyc.com/"The Annex/a (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery is hosted.) The address is a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=152+Orchard+Street+nyie=UTF8oe=utf-8client=firefox-all=40.721112,-73.988628spn=0.00914,0.013411z=16g=152+Orchard+Street+nyiwloc=addr"152 Orchard Street/a and we'll be there at strong9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th/strong./p pGallery Dates:br /br / December 4th-7th/p pTimes:br /br / 12/4 Thursdaybr /br / 12-8/p p12/5 Fridaybr /br / 12-8/p p12/6 Saturdaybr /br / 11-8/p p12/7 Sundaybr /br / 11-4/p p[Read more about our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5082811/gizmodo-gallery-our-wonderful-world-of-gadgets-on-display-in-nyc"Gizmodo Gallery here/a and see what else we'll be a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/Gizmodo%20Gallery"playing with/a at the event.]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=5ba1710716a7907106446ba202e42af0p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=5ba1710716a7907106446ba202e42af0p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=5ba1710716a7907106446ba202e42af0" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=fwk1Gnli"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=uuGSSjSh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=KBE4pR77"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=KBE4pR77" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=FwKd0K31"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=FwKd0K31" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/_FOd4u5I1IM" height="1" width="1"/

It appears that Russian malware distributors were able to launch another iFrame attack on a subdomain of the cbs.com site so that it was serving remote malware to any visitors. pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NIsnrbFxjLOofr6wbAuDNWDJh-E/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NIsnrbFxjLOofr6wbAuDNWDJh-E/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/technology/popular/~4/ybZwcn29Oco height=1 width=1 /br[a href=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/01/CBS_website_bitten_by_iFrame_hack_1.html title=linklink/a] [a href=http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/container/technology/popular/~3/ybZwcn29Oco/CBS_Web_Site_Bitten_by_IFRAME_Hack title=moremore/a]

This afternoon we caught wind of a cool looking new indie horror film entitled DEATH STOP HOLOCAUST, which takes place over a two-day period in the lives of two young women. The two women, while heading to a summer home for vacation on a remote island, happen upon a group of locals that torture & kill outsiders. While desperately trying to find help, it becomes more & more obvious that the entire island is in on the ruse & will stop at nothing to preserve their secret. Beyond the break you can check out a trailer, a vintage trailer and a one sheet for the film directed by Justin Russell.

pEditors note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. Following is the sixth of her updates on the effort as part of ScientificAmerican.coms in-depth report on the quot;Future of the Poles.quot;/ppMcMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- For a geologist, Antarctica can be a very frustrating continent.nbsp; Stepping off an aircraft onto the ice, one is greeted by a 12,000-foot smoking volcano on one side and a mountain range rising about 14,000 feet on the other.nbsp; This would appear to be a geologists dream.nbsp; The problem is the ice. Only 1 percentnbsp; of the rock on the continent is free from the veil of ice.nbsp; The rest is hidden from prying scientists.nbsp; We are forced to rely on remote sensing techniques to tell us about the types of rocks beneath the ice sheet.nbsp; Our team uses radar, gravity and magnetics. Other scientists shoot off small explosives or release pressurized air to record the echoes from different layers of hidden rock. a href=http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=dispatches-from-the-bottom-of-the-e-2008-12-02[More]/a

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via MacNN:

Nikon has finally launched the GP-1 GPS Unit that connects to its digital SLR cameras' hotshoe and either the D90's GPS port, as well as the 10-pin remote sockets of the D3X, D3, D700, D300 and D200 and therefore allows each captured image to be geo-tagged. The GP-1 uses two LEDs to indicate connection status with satellites....


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Songbird is like an open source version of iTunes that handles just about everything that program does, while swapping out the iTunes store interface in favor of the world's music blogs.

You can stream music from those sources directly within the program (try that with iTunes' browser), purchasing whatever music you encounter there that strikes your fancy from multiple sources: Amazon, Amie St., eMusic or iTunes. Or, if a blog or other site offers songs as free downloads, those are gathered neatly at the bottom of the screen as well (see screenshot to the right).

At its core, though, Songbird is a solid music playback program -- albeit one that can be customized with add-ons from Songbird and other developers, a strategy we've seen before from Songbird founder Matt Lord, formerly of Winamp, which itself had a wide variety of plug-ins. Lord set his sights squarely on iTunes when he launched Songbird a couple years back, accusing the program of being "like Internet Explorer, if Internet Explorer could only browse Microsoft.com." Songbird, with its emphasis on unfettered access to the web's music sources, proves his point.

Aside from being a solid local player with Web 2.0-friendly music discovery built-in, Songbird can sync music to your iPod, so long as it's not protected by Apple's Fairplay DRM. Although a mechanism exists for playing Fairplay-protected music in Songbird, it didn't work for us (screenshots below).

Beta versions of Songbird have been kicking around for ages, but today's official 1.0 release offers several improvements over the program, including a switch to the open source GStreamer multimedia playback system, which the team says makes this version perform better and with more reliability.

Songbird also added a meshTape feature that harvests images from Flickr, videos from YouTube, artist bios from last.fm and news from Google, all related to the currently-playing song. Minor tweaks include revamped keyboard shortcuts, a new Linux installer (the program runs on Windows, Mac and Linux), the ability to find out where a file actually lives, and the ability to nest one smart playlist inside another.

Here's what the program is like to install and use:

First you import music. You can add more directories later if you want. Note the option for importing directly from iTunes:

Then it's time to choose some add-ons from Songbird's recommended list, which includes synchronization with Apple iPods and Microsoft-based MP3 players, support for Quicktime and protected WMA files, access to free Shoutcast radio stations, concert listings from Songkick, scrobbling to Last.fm and mashTape, which lets you augment your local library with custom mixtapes from remote web sources such as Hype Machine:

Songbird seems to import music as quickly as processor and RAM allow:

Here's the default playback and library view, featuring automatically downloaded album art and bio. Songbird has improved album art support in this version, and harvested correct artist bios from Last.fm. If the album art happens to be wrong, or you want to switch it just for kicks, you can drag-and-drop new art into the program:

One slight hitch: Windows Vista muted Songbird by default, so we had to unmute it before we could hear the music. Your results may vary (Vista is finicky):

Clicking on Hype Machine brings me there in Songbird's browser (the program is based on Mozilla). Note how I can see the blog in the top area, while the bottom area lets me cut to the chase and stream all the music embedded on the page. The tabs near the top of the window let me switch between the web view, library and a video demonstrating how to customize Songbird with extensive options. You can bookmark any music blog for easy access. Smooth:

Pretty much everything worked as advertised with Songbird, except that when we tried to play protected content that had been purchased from iTunes, it wouldn't play. First, Songbird asked us to enter our iTunes password into iTunes:

However, iTunes told me my computer was already authorized, but the song still wouldn't play in Songbird. Oh well -- DRM is a headache, as we all know. It might be too much ask Songbird to be able to handle protected content, and we can't get too down on this program, because it does so many other things so well:

In addition to local song playback and music blog streaming, Shoutcast radio stations also worked perfectly. However, it would be nice if you could purchase songs that stream from Shoutcast the same way you can those that stream from web-based music sources:

Songbird says 160,000 people use the program every month, and that was before this final release became available. If you're interested in a solid open source audio player with great web integration, give it a try.

See Also:

• Songbird Music Player Challenges iTunes With Major Update
• Songbird Top 40 Project Wants to Integrate Your Favorite Firefox Add-ons
• Songbird: One Foxy Music Player

Nikon has finally launched the GP-1 GPS Unit that connects to its digital SLR cameras' hotshoe and either the D90's GPS port, as well as the 10-pin remote sockets of the D3X, D3, D700, D300 and D200 and therefore allows each captured image to be geo-tagged. The GP-1 uses two LEDs to indicate connection status with satellites....

In the EU's long-running front against cyber-crime, the Council of Ministers has proposed a five-year plan to tackle the problem, including collaboration with regional law enforcement branches and the implementation of remote searches.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/dellfind.jpg" width="807" height="513" style="display:block;float:none;" /Previous version of Laptop Cop let you remotely delete (or retrieve) files from a stolen laptop, but the newest feature makes it genuinely worth paying for: Real-time geo-location using just Wi-Fi./p pIt uses a href="http://www.skyhookwireless.com/"Skyhook/a, the same Wi-Fi location tech a href="http://gizmodo.com/5015930/giz-explains-what-you-didnt-know-about-the-iphone-3gs-gps"used by the iPhone/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/skyhook-wireless-+-wi+fi-location-sensing-109316.php"triangulate your position/a against Wi-Fi access points. Convenient, since we're not quite at the stage where laptops have built-in GPS for lojacking (though it's probably not too far off)./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/laptopcop.jpg" width="807" height="574" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"Unfortunately, for now it only works on Windows computers (booo), but if you have a habit of losing your laptop, $50 is pretty cheap for a chance to find out where it lands./p blockquote pwareness Technologies Upgrades Laptop Cop with Skyhook Wireless Real-time Geo-Location/p pWi-Fi Positioning Enhances Security of Laptop Theft Recovery Software/p pLOS ANGELES, CA and BOSTON, MA – December 3, 2008 - Awareness Technologies and Skyhook Wireless announced today the release of Laptop Cop with real-time geo-location. The Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) from Skyhook Wireless adds a powerful new set of features to Laptop Cop, making it the most comprehensive and effective laptop protection software in the industry./p p"We deliver real laptop protection, not just ping for an IP address like our competitor," emphasized Peter Fuhrman, a founder of Awareness Technologies. "We give laptop owners the valuable features they've long wanted, of being able to remotely retrieve or delete files, monitor and control what a thief does with the stolen laptop, and now, thanks to our partnership with Skyhook Wireless, find out in real-time where the laptop is located, with a higher degree of accuracy than GPS. This is a game-changer in the software market."/p p"Adding WPS to Laptop Cop will provide owners with fast, accurate information on the location of the stolen device, even when it's inside or in an urban area. It works like a true homing beacon that helps locate stolen laptops and get them back to their rightful owners," said Michael Shean, vice president of business development at Skyhook Wireless./p pLaptop Cop works on any Windows laptop, whether newly-bought, or already in use. It is available now through Dell Computer's main website, or direct from Awareness Technologies, at www.laptopcopsoftware.com. The software operates in an undetectable stealth mode, activating only when a laptop is lost or stolen. Its multi-layered functions, including geo-location and remote file-retrieval, go beyond encryption and IP-pinging so owners can truly protect their laptops, and all the contents./p pSkyhook Wireless has pioneered the development of WPS, the Wi-Fi positioning system. WPS uses Wi-Fi to determine precise location of laptops and mobile devices, regardless of environment, in order to support always-available and always-accurate positioning. Skyhook's technology is deployed on tens of millions of devices and applications./p p"More and more people are switching to laptops, both for business and home use," explained Awareness Technologies' Fuhrman. "Increased mobility and convenience, however, brings with it increased risk of laptop theft or loss. Laptop Cop is a must-have for anyone with a laptop or contents worth protecting."/p /blockquote p[a href="http://www.awarenesstechnologies.com/laptopcop.html"Laptop Cop/a, a href="http://www.skyhookwireless.com/"Skyhook/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=bf87bb8ecd107084a513f08491b99395amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=bf87bb8ecd107084a513f08491b99395amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=GobU2NhV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Vas07Stc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=zDd8TRO0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=zDd8TRO0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Ju6faklt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=Ju6faklt" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/MJIIywTpiww" height="1" width="1"/

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h4No mic for Jesus/h4 pThree months after they were said to be on the horizon, Apple today announced availability of the dual-driver in-ear headphones with remote and mic ($79) and single-driver earphones with remote and mic ($29)..../p

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Zordak writes CNN has up a story about several Israeli firms that want to replace metal detectors at airports with biometric readings. For example, with funding from TSA and DHS, WeCU ([creepily] pronounced We See You) Technologies, employs a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors and imagers, and flashing of subliminal images, such as a photo of Osama bin Laden. Developers say the combination of these technologies can detect a persons reaction to certain stimuli by reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration mdash; signals a terrorist unwittingly emits before he plans to commit an attack. Sensors may be embedded in the carpet, seats, and check-in screens. The stated goal is to read a passengers intention in a manner that is more fair, more effective and less expensive than traditional profiling. But not to worry! WeCUs CEO says, We dont want you to feel that you are being interrogated. And you may get through security in 20 to 30 seconds.pa href=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/198258amp;from=rssimg src=http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/198258 //a/ppa href=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/198258amp;from=rssRead more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fMRk26vARWhRy6u41KqGWDYZpM8/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fMRk26vARWhRy6u41KqGWDYZpM8/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YGobGwRN_2c height=1 width=1 /

Makes it possible for you to completly control a computer that is out of your reach

Anyone else having remote issues after the ATV 2.3 upgrade?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....sageID=8549529
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....readID=1799155

I ended up having to downgrade back to 2.1.

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