Links for 22-09-2007
Leg-support exoskeleton, London CCTV doesn’t help solve crime after all, OMG HACKING KITS ON EBAY WE’RE DOOMED (yawn), the New Idorus and the end of real life celebrity …
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1 – 21st-century pack mule: MIT’s ‘exoskeleton’ lightens the load
“Their invention, known as an exoskeleton, can support much of the weight of a heavy backpack and transfer that weight directly to the ground, effectively taking a load off the back of the person wearing the device.”
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2 – Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved
“A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with the proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any.”
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3 – Novice computer hacking kits found for sale on eBay | Technology | The Guardian
“It basically puts high level hacking tools … into the hands of almost any internet user.” Yeah, because they couldn’t have just, y’know, downloaded the stuff from somewhere else, or found a HOWTO … technophobia!
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4 – Gwyneth Llewelyn on the New Idoru: Second Life and the coming end of real world celebrity
“… it is likely to assume that the entertainment industry will instead focus on “virtual bands” like GorillaZ — purely imagined avatars created from real musicians that throw a show on stage under their virtual personas.” Yup.
