Cyberpunk Tendencies
13/04/2016
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Folding helmet inspired by the pangolin and honeybees
An unlikely pairing of a pangolin and honeybees inspired Golem Innovation to create the Alpha helmet, an articulating noggin protector that retracts around your neck when not in use.
The impetus behind the design of the Alpha helmet was a simple one: create a helmet that would be lighter than existing ones and could easily be put away so you didn’t have to hold it or run the risk of losing it.
The company’s design team settled on the pangolin’s ability to roll itself up into an ball as the primary design element, with the bee honeycomb as the influence behind the internal structure to give the helmet the ability to absorb hard impacts.
When the Alpha is not in use, it folds into itself and sits on your shoulders, taking up about as much space as the Hövding airbag for cyclists. To bring it into helmet mode, you reach around with one or both hands and the Alpha articulates into a half-faced helmet with built-in eye protection.
A double-lock system consisting of a mechanism on either side of the helmet must be engaged for the helmet to fold properly in either direction and stay locked in place. The helmet is also designed so that each of the sections or blades that comprise the foldable parts is overlaid in a way that adds to its overall stability and structural integrity. Additionally, the helmet incorporates a no-choke system that sees the chinstrap automatically break away if someone pulls the helmet from behind when it’s folded up and sitting on your shoulders.
Golem Innovation says it is initially targeting winter sports like skiing and snowboarding, and most bicycle sports. Eventually, it wants to expand to include just about any sport where wearing a helmet is either necessary or prudent.
The company recently launched a Kickstarter program to raise over €200,000 (US $224,300) to help bring the Alpha helmet to market. Early backers can pre-order the Alpha for €175 ($195) with shipments expected by June 2017 if the company is successful in taking this helmet from concept to completion.
Over the past few years, several different companies have introduced varied versions of foldable helmets like the Headkayse, Morpher, and Overade. However, none of these have the articulating design of the Alpha and they must be fully removed to take advantage of their folding capability.
Source: Golem Innovation
Source: Folding helmet inspired by the pangolin and honeybees
Scientists Discover How to ‘Upload Knowledge to Your Brain’
Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe. Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to “life imitating art”.
They believe it could be the first steps in developing advanced software that will make Matrix-style instant learning a reality. In the neo-noir sci-fi classic, protagonist Neo is able to learn kung fu in seconds after the martial art is ‘uploaded’ straight to his brain.
Researchers from HRL Laboratories, based in California, say they have found a way to amplify learning, only on a much smaller scale than seen in the Hollywood film. They studied the electric signals in the brain of a trained pilot and then fed the data into novice subjects as they learned to pilot an aeroplane in a realistic flight simulator.
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that subjects who received brain stimulation via electrode-embedded head caps improved their piloting abilities and learnt the task 33 per cent better than a placebo group.
Source: Scientists Discover How to ‘Upload Knowledge to Your Brain’ | Sci-Tech Universe
5 Shocking security break downs in the History of the cyber world
In the world of Cyber Crimes, the Security Break Down of any organization’s Core value is the nightmare for any country and for the users.
The US Federal Reserve Bank in New York swapped $81m from Bangladesh’s Bank Account on February 4th 2016 into the records of four men in the Philippines, in the wake of getting what gave off a hollow of being real exchange orders. The exchange of another $20m to a Sri Lankan bank was halted after a directing bank got to be suspicious of a spelling botch and looked for illumination from the Bangladesh Bank, authorities said. Still the security specialists are waiting for the direct link through the vouchers which were sent by the hackers to the US Federal Reserve Bank. In last the 10 years many of the organizations got bailed out with this type of hacking, nevertheless the latest one claims to be the “US Voter Database Hack with 191M users” for the Recent Security Break Down!
US VOTER DATABASE HACK – 191M USERS! – YEAR 2015
By gathering the information from a well-known PC security analyst who revealed a database of records on 191 million voters that is uncovered on the open Internet because of a mistakenly designed database, he said on Monday. The database incorporates names, addresses, conception dates, party affiliations, telephone numbers and messages of voters in every one of the 50 U.S. states and Washington, analyst Chris Vickery said in a telephone meeting.
“THE ALARMING PART IS THAT THE INFORMATION IS SO CALLED CONCENTRATED,” – Vickery
Typically, the voter information is normally viewed as open data, it would be tedious and costly to assemble a database of all American voters. A trove of all U.S. voter information could be important to hoodlums searching for arrangements of substantial quantities of focuses for an assortment of misrepresentation plans.
JP MORGAN CHASE – 76M HOUSEHOLDS – YEAR 2014
On JPMorgan Chase traded off the records of 76 million family units and seven million organizations, a count that diminutive people past evaluations by the bank and puts the interruption among the biggest ever. Though the severity of the intrusion began in June but wasn’t discovered until July 2014.
“We’ve migrated so much of our economy to computer networks because they are faster and more efficient, but there are side effects,” said Dan Kaminsky, a researcher who works as chief scientist at White Ops, a security company.
EVERNOTE HACKED – 50M USERS – YEAR 2013
Every single day is the toughest day for the online security applications. It’s about the online note-taking administration Evernote which has endured a security break, prompting the California-based organization issuing secret word reset guidelines for every one of the 50 million of its clients.
“EVEN THOUGH THIS INFORMATION WAS ACCESSED, THE PASSWORDS STORED BY EVERNOTE ARE PROTECTED BY ONE-WAY ENCRYPTION.”
The administration declared in a Blog Spot throughout the weekend that its Operations and Security group had spotted suspicious movement on its system that resembled “a planned endeavor to get to secure ranges of the Evernote administration.
THE STEAM HACKED – 35M USERS – YEAR 2011
One of the secured forces from Steam, Valve revealed an interruption into a client database while examining a security break of its discourse gatherings. The aggressors utilized login subtle elements from the gathering hack to get to a database that held ID and charge card information.
The initial investigation showed that the attackers gained access to a Steam database that held “user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information”.
APPLE UDID LEAK – 12M USERS – YEAR 2012
On March 2012, BlueToad said in an announcement that it was the “casualty of a criminal digital assault, which brought about the robbery of Apple UDIDs from our frameworks.” A UDID is a one of a kind gadget identifier, which Apple has emphatically urged engineers to move far from for protection reasons.
“VICTIM OF A CRIMINAL CYBER ATTACK WHICH RESULTED IN THE THEFT OF APPLE UDID’s FROM OUR SYSTEM.” – BlueToad
Source: 5 Shocking Security Break Downs in the History of the Cyber World! | TheTechNews
Sci-Fi classic gets new film programme under way
18 March 2016 10:46AMTHE new season of film screenings starts at Signal Cinema, in Barrow, later this month.On Thursday March 31, at 7.30pm, the Abbey Road cinema kicks off its Spring/Summer programme with a free screening of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Blade Runner: The Final Cut.Other screenings scheduled in the calendar of twice-monthly events include Romeo & Juliet, starring recent Oscar-winner Leonard DiCaprio, and an Inspiring Women feature, Suffragette.The programme opener next week is free to all aged 15 and over – though booking ahead is advised via http://www.signalfilmandmedia.co.uk/signalcinemaIt will be introduced by local film and TV director Eddy Marshall, who became a lifelong fan after seeing Blade Runner for the first time at Dukes Cinema, in Lancaster, in 1983. He says: “While it’s still an amazing film for reasons I’ll explain before the screening, it’s hard to underestimate the impact Blade Runner had in the early ’80s. It redefined science fiction movies entirely – there’s a definite “before” and “after” Blade Runner.
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