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Blippy Automatically Shares Your Credit Card Habits With the World

by Jay Garrett on February 17, 2010

If you’re the type of person who likes to brag about the amount of cash you’ve splashed and what on – Blippy is calling you!

Blippy basically gives your credit card its own Facebook and Twitter account and each time the plastic gets spanked Blippy gets to know and then, so will everyone else – so, careful when shopping at more adult-centric stores ;)

You can log into Blippy via your Twitter or Facebook accounts and then you can select which stores (iTunes, Amazon, Threadless, etc) you want your transactions blipped about – so, if you have some shady purchases or buying gifts at least you have the choice whether or not this info is transmitted.

As expected, you need to enter your credit card details for Blippy to work – time to start the gulp-o-matic-a-go-go!!

Blippers? get to see popular purchases from around the Blipperverse via their feeds which could be useful if you want to see what’s trending – which may be more handy for stores than punters.

Would you be happy with uploading all your credit card details and then sharing your spending habits with the world?

Comment below (you don’t have to tell me your bank details!) :)

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Aramtrix Pistol Steps Closer to the Lawgiver

by Jay Garrett on January 30, 2010

It looks like gun makers are stepping towards the future with a security feature worthy of Judge Dredd’s Lawgiver.

In order to fire off some rounds from the latest firearms by Armatix you need to be wearing a very unassuming wrist watch.

The watch sends a wireless arming signal to the gun. If the gun is picking up a signal from the watch, a green LED on the back lights up.

If you’re not wearing the watch and squeeze the handle, instead of exploding like the Lawgiver would, you just get a red warning light.

If you fancy the .22cal shooter with the futuristic safety device it will cost you around 7,000 euros.

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TeboCam – Free Motion Sensing Web Cam Software

December 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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TeboCam is a free webcam program that alerts you should some ne’re do well be trespassing.
Ideal to set up in your home or even at your workstation – how many times have you had to replace your pens and stapler last year?
I suppose that this software could also be used for other occasions where surreptitious [...]

Maplock – GPS Anti-theft Device for Those Stupid Enough to Leave it on Their Windscreen

December 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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Correct me if I’m wrong.
Most GPS devices are portable. They’ll slip into your hand/man bag, pocket, or at least into your cars locking glovebox.
The fact that even when people remove their TomTom or Garmin and shove it under their car-seat (yeah – I know your secret hiding place!) they leave the dock on their windscreen. [...]

MMORPGamers Targetted by Worms – World of Warcraft Virus

November 3, 2009 Click to read more →
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There’s been plenty of press regarding the health issues of gamers that spend most their waking lives playing these Massively Multiplayer Online games but here’s a new health scare.
The health of your secure details held on USB’s, external hard-drives and the like.
Microsoft has published a report pointing out that virus writers are getting hip to [...]

Manchester Airport’s RapiScan Will Not Nudify Kids – Over 18’s Will Get Naked Snaps

October 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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You’ve probably heard about the X-ray machine that produces ‘naked’ images of passengers being trialled at Manchester Airport.
Just in case you haven’t the scanner is to snoop out hidden terrorism-style object but will also show up any breast enlargements, false limbs, piercings, and a clear outline of passengers’ naughty bits.
However fears have been raised that [...]

Hotmail Security Not So Hot – Microsoft Gets Breached Again

October 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yup – the mighty M has had the details of thousands of its Hotmail users published online – that’s usernames and passwords!
The details of more than 10,000 accounts, mainly from Europe, have been listed online at developer/coding site pastebin.com on 1st October 2009.
All of those names were said to be genuine and all were names [...]

Spoticam – CCTV Lamp – Do You Like Being Watched?

August 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em.
We’ve all muttered that mantra.
So when I saw these CCTV’s for inside the home I was curious.
When I found out that they were actually lamps – BONUS!
If you actually enjoy being watched while you do some left-handed surfing, get it on with your other half or just sleep then [...]

Fujitsu Labs Hope To Make Portable Data More Secure – Or Delete it

April 17, 2009 Click to read more →
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We’ve all read how clumsy government officials, tax departments and our very own security departments are when it comes to data.
Bank employees have left laptops full of account details, names and addresses of various high rollers have been found in coffee shops and the list goes on – and these are just the ones we [...]

Yelpie – Ideal Portable Safe For Summer Festivals and Holidays

April 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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If, like me, you can’t drag yourself away from your tech even on holidays or at a festival.
The problem comes trying to protect them and any cash you might not need to carry with you all the time.
Instead of ‘cleverly hiding’ your wallet and mobile under a towel when you go for a swim or shoving [...]

EU Directive Makes ISP’s Store Your Web Habits

April 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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Can you smell that?
That’s the distinct whiff of 1984 in the air.
A new EU directive means that from today all Internet service providers are required to keep data on your user habits and usage.
It states that all ISPs in the Union have to, by law, keep records for a year of online communications.
Thankfully, your emails and Internet phone calls will [...]

Apple Hides Biometric Scanning in iPhone and MacBook Patent

March 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple has sent in a patent that AppleInsider have pounced on like a hungry wildcat.
The diagram shows how the fruity one plans to hide fingerprint scanners in future iPhones and MacBooks without the need to ruin those minimalist lines that fanboys and girls love.
Their idea is to slip the finger scanners under the MacBook trackpad [...]

Leyio Wrist Shaking Wireless Transfer Drive Comes to UK

March 20, 2009 Click to read more →

Cast your minds back to January and the Leyio.
It promised file sharing by the shake of your wrist via UWB (ultra-wideband) radio connectivity with a 3MB pic blasting across in just 0.3 seconds. 
The Leyio is coming to the UK in April with an unfortunate price of £159 for the 16GB device.
The device has a fingerprint scanner so only you can [...]

New Luggage From Heys Features Bio Scan Lock

March 2, 2009 Click to read more →

If you enjoy making everything secure biometrically you probably throw a fit when you check in your cases because they are only guarded by a simple combination lock.
Fear no more!
Now you can upgrade to the BioCase from Heys!
This beauty comes with a built-in biometric scanner of some sort that stores up to eight fingerprints for up to [...]

T-34. The Net Throwing Security Robot

January 23, 2009 Click to read more →

What ever you do – don’t laugh at this little droid.
Ok, so it might look like a radio-controlled car with an upright shoe-box plonked on it but the Alacom/tmsuk T-34 security bot  will take you down!
The T-34 is essentially a remote-controlled security drone operative
It can be controlled by mobile phone if the human wants.  [...]

Fujitsu F-01A Waterproof Fingerprint Secure Mobile Phone

January 20, 2009 Click to read more →

Take no phones into the shower?
How about this little folder?
No need to miss that call – just grab the Fujitsu Japan the F-01A and a loofah!
The F-01A is apparently the world’s first mobile phone that’s waterproof – and also has a fingerprint biometric security thingy.
In Nippon, it’s part of the line-up of NTT DoCoMo, the country’s biggest telecommunications [...]

Spyball – The Sneaky Networked Sphere Bot

January 7, 2009 Click to read more →

WowWee just loves bots that can spy on folk.
Now there’s a new one and it goes by the unsneaky name of Spyball.
This spherical snooper is designed to roll around before popping out a webcam to beam live pictures over the web (MWAHAhahahahaahh!).
 
Like other offerings from WowWee the Spyball can be controlled from any web connected PC, and [...]

Black & Decker To Release Remote Control Door Locks

December 30, 2008 Click to read more →

Passing a lump of shaped metal into a corresponding orifice then twisting it just to open or secure your abode too much for you?
Well those tool-meisters, Black & Decker, are to launch a “state-of-the-art remote wireless residential access control solution” that could see you locking your front door remotely.
Black & Decker’s motorised electronic deadbolts can [...]

Credit Card with Keypad – Secure Online Shopping +++

November 14, 2008 Click to read more →

I dread to think of the queues that this is going to cause if high-street stores bring this in but if it actually makes my transactions more secure and the threat of fraud lower then chalk me down for one.
This new card from MBNA has a built-in numeric keypad, and when you put in your [...]

London Wi-Fi Is Best – Capital of Connection and Unprotected Data

October 29, 2008 Click to read more →

Ok, so this is a bit like, “my dad’s bigger than your dad” but for you mobile computing junkies the question of who has the best WiFi access is a serious matter.
Well, London continues to be the world capital of WiFi with an amazing 12,276 access points – this is according to the latest from the annual Wireless [...]

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