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  Bluetooth gives spies a window into your life - tech - 07 May 2008 - New Scientist Tech 

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  Worried about your civil liberties and privacy? Then it may come as a shock to discover that you have unwittingly been allowing your phone to signal your every move. Bluetooth, a wireless link built into ... many cellphones, makes our movements trackable by anyone equipped with a PC and an appropriate receiver. Vassilis Kostakos at the University of Bath in the UK placed four Bluetooth receivers in the city's centre. Over four months, his team tracked 10,000 Bluetooth phones and was able to "capture and analyse people's encounters" in pubs, streets and shops. Bluetooth is now more of a privacy threat than the more frequently publicised RFID chips, Kostakos says. "If people are worried, they should turn off the Bluetooth function on their mobile phones." By Glynn Quelch (uk) Wed May 07 11:05:24 BST 2008 I have a HTC Pocket PC Phone and mch to my shock i turned bluetooth on to send a friend a few files on his standard mobile. While the files where being sent he loged into my phone and took c   [More...] [Less...]

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  Wiimote Whiteboard | uweschmidt.org 

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  This program allows you to use the Wii Remote (Wiimote) to turn any surface into a Low-Cost Interactive Whiteboard . It is based on Johnny Lee's original WiimoteWhiteboard program that is written in C# ... and available for Windows only. My program uses Java to allow for (some) platform-independence. I also provide a Mac-only version since most users are on a Mac so far there is already a Windows version the Java-Bluetooth compatibility is a lot better on Mac OS X I am a Mac user There is also a SourceForge project that provides other implementations of Johnny's program (e.g. for Linux). Check out the video and the other cool projects at Johnny Lee's page if you have no idea what I'm talking about Features Simple user interface Granularity of mouse control: Move Only or Move & Click , Right Click support Mouse movement smoothing Touchpad Mode Double-click assistance Support for 2 Wiimotes Screen selection Update notification TUIO/OSC support for multitouch applications Low battery warning   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  apple, bluetooth, c#, code, human computer interface , java, mac, os x, whiteboard, wii, wiimote   [More...] [Less...]