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Submission + - Glowing Hobbit sword helps you find unsecured Wi-Fi (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: By disassembling your plastic Sting and incorporating the Spark Core, a tiny Wi-Fi development kit, you can hack the toy’s light and enlist it to show you when you are near an unsecure network. The best part about this hack? It only requires two things: a Spark Core and a replica Sting with lights and sound, like this one.

Submission + - The BlackBerry Classic is one of the best phones of 2009 (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, and I owned a BlackBerry Curve. To me, my BlackBerry was close to being the absolute perfect smartphone. Today, BlackBerry revealed the Classic, a phone that is designed to make me—and everyone who owned a BlackBerry before the touchscreen revolution—remember how much we loved them.

Submission + - Virtual reality experiment wants to put white people in black bodies (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: It's as simple as making a light-skinned person feel connected to a virtual, darker skinned self—a thought experiment pretty much impossible without the immersive potency of VR. The effect is achieved by outfitting participants in VR headsets with built-in head-tracking and motion capture capabilities that sync actual movement to virtual experience.
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Submission + - The case for the vertical monitor revolution (dailydot.com) 1

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: The vast majority of computer-related tasks see no benefit from a screen that is longer than it is tall. Sure, video playback and gaming are some key exceptions, but if you watch Netflix on your TV instead of your computer monitor and you’re not into PC gaming, that long, wide display is doing nothing but hampering your experience. Let’s flip it.
No, seriously. Let’s flip it sideways.

Submission + - Trains may soon come equipped with debris-zapping lasers (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: Holland's chief transportation service is testing a unique new way to clear the rails of fallen leaves and other small debris: by mounting lasers on the fronts of locomotives. The lasers will cause the leaves, which produce a condition commonly referred to as "slippery rail" in the fall and winter months, to vanish in a puff of air.

Submission + - The single vigilante behind Facebook's 'real name' crackdown (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh writes: Given the timing and the accounts suspended, they believe that they are in fact the mystery “individual” who threw a wrench into Facebook’s system, noted in Facebook’s explanation of the events. “Considering the hours and hours I spent reporting accounts over the course of the past month, it is likely that I am.”

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