Entries tagged with bluetooth - Channel 9

BlueHat - #2: Bluetooth Snipers

Rory — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:58:23 GMT

You may have seen these guys on slashdot a couple years ago. They set out to prove that Bluetooth, despite its relatively short range, is a security hazard.

Turns out it is.

Watch.

Revisiting WiMo - The Windows Mobile Robot

Rory — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:16:22 GMT

Brian Cross is, like, really smart. That's what I've decided.

He woke up one day and felt like building a robot...

...so he did.

He's come along way from his early attempts, and he now has multiple hardware platforms which all tie into a single brain. That brain is a Bluetooth-enabled Windows Mobile SmartPhone. There's also some stuff that runs on a PC which was built with some of the Robotics bits that are available with Microsoft Robotics Studio.

Brian uses the phone to direct the actions of the robots, as well as handle things like communications and image acquisition (yeah - these robots, like the various probes we've launched into space, like to send images back).

I was floored by what I saw. And, for those of you who like what you see here, Brian has posted directions on the official WiMo site which describe how to build a robot similar to the one you'll see in the video.

It's amazing what you can do with a computer, a phone, and a couple hundred bucks nowadays.

水谷さん - ハードウェア製品dogfood: 社内テスターへの配布

c9Japan — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:37:51 GMT

マイクロソフト社内では、出荷前の製品を自社導入し、自らベータテストを行うことを「ドッグフードを食べる（Eating your own dogfood）」と呼んでいます。
現在、マイクロソフト社内では、Windows Vistaや2007 Office systemといった出荷前の製品を自社導入しております。
Dogfoodは、ソフトウェア製品だけではなく、マウスやキーボードといったマイクロソフト製ハードウェアデバイス（ならびにドライバソフトウェア IntelliPoint / IntelliType Pro)に対しても行われます。

このビデオでは、Windows Vista対応をするマイクロソフト製のマウス・キーボード製品の社内テスターへの配布の直前の様子から配布をしている様子までを約５分のビデオにまとめてみました。

関連サイト:
Microsoft Hardware | ホームページ
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/hardware/default.mspx

Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/hardware/keyboard/op_desk_elite_bt.mspx

For English audience:
This video is based on Japanese conversation only with no English transcript.
In this video, Mizutani-san talks about 'dogfood' process (i.e. beta testing for own products in Microsoft) for Hardware devices such that Microsoft Mouse & Keyboard products on Windows Vista.

The video duration is around 5 minutes.

Anil Dhawan - Partying with Bluetooth

scobleizer — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:43:31 GMT

Mike Hall takes his camcorder over to talk to Anil about his media box that is controlled by his Bluetooth phone. Lots of fun, he built this for his house so he could party with his friends.