How would like to test out the latest ejector seat? Well maybe you should watch this video before making up your mind. It shows BAE Systems putting the ejector seat on the brand new F-35 Lighting II through its paces – at a mere 600mph. From the moment the pilot pulls the handle, it takes him just three seconds to get clear of the jet. We say him, it was actually a crash-test dummy. To be fair, it costs millions to train those Top Gun types you know…
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It’s the end of another busy morning in gadgetry, so grab yourself a sandwich, settle back and tuck into all the headlines, rounded up for you right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
Here’s a little slice of brilliance for you. In honour of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin‘s first space flight (which actually took place on April 12), a group of students from the Siberian State Aerospace University launched a self-made guitar-shaped rocket model into the sky in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia yesterday.
Google music services have been rattling around the rumour mill since Google I/O last year when it teased music streaming smarts for Android.
We’ve had lots of Google Music leaks and hints and half-worked-out plans since. Now another piece of the Google music puzzle has dropped into place with Google gobbling up PushLife, a small mobile entertainment company that had been hard at work on a music app for Android and Blackberry. Intriguing…
Jack Tretton, the notoriously robust CEO of Sony PlayStation has landed himself in a very sticky spot – again. Having previously described the Wii as a ‘lollipop’ and the Xbox an ‘unreliable cook’, Tretton has branded the Nintendo 3DS a ‘babysitting tool’.
To be fair, he’s in good company here. Take a look at our Top 5 outrageous quotes emanating from the biggest cheeses in gaming…
It’s been a while since we’ve had Samsung bada news but here’s a tasty morsel to satisfy your appetite for some fresh bada 2.0 info.
According to a slide that slipped into the hands of Russian blog, Bada World, Samsung has two unnamed devices ready to go with the updated bada software inside, HSDPA, Bluetooth 3.0 and, trendiest of all, NFC…
Up until now Apple AirPlay has been a relatively closed book to hackers thanks to a private key lurking in the code that meant they couldn’t delve deeply into the way the streaming tech works. We’ve seen lots of AirPlay-enabled hardware but thanks to the nosiness of the owner of mafipulation.org we could see a slew of unofficial apps and open source hardware.
He says (warning this is extremely nerdy): ” I was disappointed to find that Apple used a public-key crypto scheme and there’s a private key hiding inside the ApEx. So I took it apart, dumped the ROM and reverse engineered the keys out of it.” He’s now made an open source version of the AirPlay code dubbed ShairPort and if you know how to rock Perl/C, its up for grabs. If not, sit back and wait for others to do their magic.
Out now | £free | Mafipulation(via Hacker News)
Sony PlayStation boss Jack Tretton came out swinging over the weekend in an interview with Fortune, taking aim at the Nintendo 3DS. As you might expect he bigged up Sony’s strengths and skimmed over its weaknesses. While we wait for the Sony NGP to arrive, Tretton took on the Nintendo 3DS…
