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How's this living in the future thing working out for you? Bit disappointed with the lack of future tech? Well this will put a smile on your face for sure!

French artist Nils Guadagnin has created an electromagnetic replica of the hoverboard from Back to the Future 2.

It currently does not support much weight, but it brings this amazing creation from the year 2015 oh so much closer, and makes me feel it might even be ready in time! Plus it's nearly another notch on the list of predictions this movie got right

Check out the below video:



F*cking sweet. This HAS to get looked into further....

A repeater is just a very normal client which, at the same time, can also be an access point, independent of the SSID and type of encryption used. It is possible to build device like that you can place anywhere and it will wirelessly repeat the strongest signal, using a Linksys WRT54GL and the DD-WRT firmware (which what I am doing today).

This is not exactly the same as building a wireless bridge, as the new point will act as a wireless spot, not a wired one.

Architecturally the repeater connects to another wireless router as a client, getting a single IP address via DHCP. Effectively the SSID network it connects to becomes your ISP. Therefore you (the client) will operate in your own IP address space, which is different from address space the repeater connects to.

To do this, you need to follow this tutorial here. However, it's a bit confusing about what firmware you need to flash with, as you need to first flash with the mini (not micro) version, and then with a version that support repeater mode (only some do). For this reason, I am providing a download here with both versions you will need. Flash the mini version first using the default Linksys firmware upgrade feature.

That's all for now. I will report back in the comments on how successful my own repeater turns out to be - I am building it using a version 1.1 WRT54GL to repeat the signal form an Imagine WiMax router, which turn out to be 20% weaker than basic Eircom routers (both manufactured by Motorola). Go figure...

IBM has unveiled three new blade servers to add to its server line-up for 2010.

The new servers are built on IBM's own Power 7 architecture, released back in February, and claim to offer reduced workload times as well as shaving 25% from, overheads.

The PS700 is an entry level server featuring just one blade and the four-core Power 7 chip, however, the rest of the line continues to grow in specs.

The PS701 single socket product offers an eight-core Power 7 chip and the PS702 features two of the eight-core processors.

Whilst its previous Power 6 chip was just dual-core and had a single-thread, this next-generation Power 7 scales from two to eight cores and can run up to four threads at once.

The new technology has led IBM to make bold claims that the last of these server models - the PS702 Express - offers 188% better performance per blade than the HP Integrity BL860c Blade and a massive 225% better performance per blade than the Oracle Sun Blade T6340.

Local pricing has yet to be confirmed.

With the real foundations laid earlier this year at CES for 3D in home theaters, Nvidia today announced a merging of its 3D Vision technology with big screen gaming.

Nvidia announced its new 3DTV Play software technology that allows consumers to connect their GeForce GPU-powered desktop or notebook computer – as long as it has HDMI or DVI – to new 3D TVs supporting HDMI 1.4 and 1080p24, 720p60, and 720p50 3D formats.

Games that support Nvidia 3D Vision include World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and Avatar: The Game.

Nvidia 3DTV Play software will be available later this spring and sold separately. It will also be available for free for current Nvidia 3D Vision customers.

To promote its 3D tech gadgets, Nvidia has teamed up with Panasonic for a coast-to-coast 2010 Panasonic Touch the Future Tour.

Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console has been hacked by George Hotz, or 'Geohot', the guy who first hacked the iPhone 3Gs.

While Hotz actually spent five weeks cracking the PS3 with "very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not-so-simple software", he noted that it had never been done in the three years plus that the console had been on the market.

"3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system," he blogged.

However, the PS3 hack is not like the iPhone one, where Hotz provided a jail-breaking programme called Blackra1n, that unlocked the iPhone in less than 30 seconds. The information he will release on the hacked PS3 is for research purposes only, he says.

Hotz is not yet ready to divulge his secrets and for now has provided no information on how he plans to mod the hacked PS3: "As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet."

Tomato, the 3rd party firmware for the Linksys WRT54GL router, has reached another update, version 1.26. Features/fixes this time include:

* Allow a different port for DNS
* Allow DHCP to serve the user-entered gateway
* Update Australian DST, add Darwin, Brisbane TZ
* Avoid double loading of tomato.css
* Fix possible null dereference in sendpage
* Collapsed all menus.
* Obscured some key/password fields
* Accept more than two MAC addresses per IP
* Added LED options back in Admin:Buttons/LED
* Added ID for WLA2-G54L, TrueMobile 2300
* Added EditDNS thanks to Keith M
* Added UTC+4:30 Kabul time zone.
* Fixed port set validation
* Allow rstats to log if WAN port is used for LAN
* Update dnsmasq to 2.51, miniupnpd 1.4
* Update busybox 1.14.4, matrixssl 1.8.8

Download from here.

I could begin this piece by asking why the heck an Android handset has not yet been released in Ireland but I shall get straight to the matter at heart: apparently, Android 2 is on the way and on a Motorola phone, no less.

Every time Google releases a new version of the Android mobile operating system it celebrates by cavorting with oversized confectionery on the lawns of Google HQ and a video posted over on Androidandme.com shows Googlers hefting around a giant éclair with an equally sizeable bun in the background

Further visual evidence coming from the Boy Genius Report would seem to show that Android 2 is already in test mode on a Motorola phone whose model number labels it as a "Droid" - what a great name for a smart phone.

These aren't the droids you're looking for

I was convinced I had "bricked" my LaCie 1 TB Network Space - it had stopped dishing out the UPNP media stream altogether after a few days of folders missing here and there. Switched on my XBox yesterday to watch Battlestar Galactica, only to be met with "No videos found". The horror (However, it still the samba share was still working, so ushare to the rescue!)

Now, you know me. I wasn't taking this lying down. I'm only after buying the fracker 3 months ago!

Much reading later, I discover there is actually TwonkyVision running under the hood, but access to it is blocked by LaCie (on port 9000), in favour of their own sh*tty web manager (this product is literally a black box, with the usual array of open source software, wrapped up and sold as the companies own. Probably find Ubuntu Linux in their if I looked hard enough).

No probs - l33t G00gl3 Sk1lls sorted this out

Check it out. This is weird - set the ip number of the Network Space to end with 66 so for example 192.168.1.66.

Then set the ip number of the computer you wish to use to access the Network Space to end with 6, so for example 192.168.1.6.

Once you have done this, and once the ip leases are issued by your router to your NAS and computer/laptop, navigate to port 9000 on your NAS, so for example 192.168.1.66:9000

You will then see a green Twonky page, with a link to the configuration page where you can turn the automatic scan off, extend the interval between scans etc etc. All sorts of sh*t!

My problem was that that Twonky had totally forgotten where to scan for files. I just readded the path, rescanned, who-yah!

Chilling out, watching Caprica pilot episode on XBox as I type. By your command muthafrackers

...someone get me a beer.......

Intel is to ditch its Core 2 and Core 4 brands, along with their Solo, Duo and Quad sub-brands in favour of, simply, Core.

Well, sort of. Intel's plans aren't quite that clear cut. Rather than nuke and pave, Intel is rolling out the new brand pland as it rolls out new products, while clearing out the old brands through natural wastage.

Still, it's about time Intel tackled its profusion of brands, and yesterday it pledged to "clear away the confusion of evaluating and comparing different processor brands" by stating that this "mind-boggling array of derivatives" will "go away... over time".

Confirming the existence of not only Core i5 but also Core i3 parts, Intel said these two lines would join Core i7 to form the basis for its desktop and mobile product branding.

"Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i3 processors will launch in the coming months," it added.

Intel will still offer Pentium - which stands for the values "dependable and proven" - and Celeron processors - "value and reliability" - even though these lines are arguably interchangeable. Atom will remain is brand for netbooks, internet-centric desktops and mobile internet tablets.

The Centrino, reported by many websites to be for the chop, will actually next year become the brandname for the chip giant's wireless products.

The vPro moniker will be extended to Core i3, i5 and i7 to mark out systems' business friendliness. Since vPro technology is as much a part of the chipset as the CPU, Core i5 vPro machines, for example, will have to be Intel through and through.

Intel's intention is that punters will choose products according to model number, using the rule that i7 is better than i5 is better than i3, and that, say, the 975 is better than the 920. Essentially, i3 means entry-level, i5 mid-range and i7 high-end.

It's not clear whether the Extreme suffix will stay or go. Given those chips' higher model numbers, the word's unnecessary.