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News Burst: Hi-tech car robbers using infra-red
News In theory you could intercept any infra red message and then copy it in order to break into a car. The victim of the latest such break-in has reported to police that an intruder managed to open the door to his remotely-locked Jaguar in order to rob...
[October 20, 1999, 11:34]
Comdex: Infra-red moves to cameras, phones
News In just a few years, IR speeds have more than quadrupled and the ports have become ubiquitous in handheld and mobile PCs. Now IrDA is targeting makers of digital cameras and even mobile phones and pagers.
[November 21, 1997, 11:23]
Shining light on healthcare at home
Blog By combining infra-red sensors with communications hardware in an LED lightbulb, inventor Lyndsay Williams claims that dangerous domestic situations can be detected in plenty of time to prevent disaster.
[January 27, 2008, 15:27]
Kewney: Latest Pilot is nothing new
News Announced Monday this week, the main difference visible, is a small infra-red "eye" that enables the new Palm III (new name) to send messages to another. The inclusion of IRDA infra-red communications is limited to comms with other Palm III units.
[March 11, 1998, 15:46]
A Year Ago: IrDA warns Bluetooth
News The Infra Red Data Association (IrDA) has warned the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) not to make the same mistakes it made when establishing itself as a connectivity technology. The SIG said that Bluetooth would kill infra red and that made...
[June 13, 2000, 7:02]
IrDA warns Bluetooth
News The Infra Red Data Association (IrDA) has warned the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) not to make the same mistakes it made when establishing itself as a connectivity technology. The SIG said that Bluetooth would kill infra red and that made...
[June 14, 1999, 14:45]
Brand new Jaguar for £2 -- the car thieves' secret
News Armed only with a £2 infra-red transceiver or a Palm handheld, thieves can now break into luxury cars with ease. Another computer security expert with experience of military radio technology confirms that infra-red security is something that car...
[October 20, 1999, 17:03]
CeBIT 98: Palm PCs look a lot like PalmPilots
News Casio's Cassiopeia E-10 is powered by a 64-bit NEC RISC processor, comes with 4Mb of RAM, has a 240 x 320 pixel backlit LCD touchscreen and features serial and infra-red communications ports. Few details were available on Samsung's Sens Palm, which...
[March 24, 1998, 9:52]
Craig Barrett's love life hits IDF
Blog There's a rather good infra-red camera in the Wii remote, so if you stuff an infra-red LED in the tip of an old whiteboard marker, the Wii can track it against a projected image. As I type, we're half an hour into IDF proper.
[August 19, 2008, 17:03]
Dell notebook aims high
News The direct seller's alternative to the big names is the Latitude XPi CD-P150ST, a 150MHz Pentium-based unit that weighs 3.3Kg and comes with 16Mb RAM, 1.2Gb hard drive, 12.1-inch 800 x 600 TFT screen based on 128-bit NeoMagic graphics, six-speed...
[September 12, 1996, 15:41]
CeBIT: C Tech Pen is Bluetooth wonder
News The C Pen has a built-in infra-red port for communicating with other computers. The company expects to release a dual infra-red/radio frequency version once Bluetooth-enabled portables are commercially available.
[March 19, 1999, 13:09]
Intel 'peels onion' with nanosurgery
News Here, physics gives the testers their first break: silicon is transparent to infra-red (IR) light. In the age of sub-micron, half-billion part single chips, the techniques are exactly the same -- but instead of probes, you use laser beams and infra...
[September 16, 2003, 11:15]
IBM - an apology (and some really neat physics!)
Blog Now, one of the fortuitous facts of physics is that silicon is transparent to infra-red light - and, if you alter the number of electrons in a piece of silicon, its refractive index at infra-red changes.
[December 7, 2007, 15:38]
Bluetooth: Set to bite this summer
News With or without Microsoft Bluetooth has a bright future, replacing the under-used, under-developed infra-red (IR) technology which has fallen well short of delivering a wire free world. Those radio waves have a bandwidth of 1MB/sec, making...
[April 15, 1999, 10:19]
Echelon: Proof of its existence
News In 1997, the MoD confirmed it leases Menwith Hill to the Americans and that it was expanding to include the Space Based Infra-Red System (SBIRS). SBIRS tracks satellites by infra-red telescope detecting the heat emitted by any nuclear, chemical or...
[June 29, 2000, 11:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News You know the score: just like a Palm Pilot but rounder, more memory and an infra-red port. One of our reviewers phones up the marketing bod in charge of the Palm, and asks: 'So, what can you do with the infra-red?
[April 18, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You know the score: just like a Palm Pilot but rounder, more memory and an infra-red port. One of our reviewers phones up the marketing bod in charge of the Palm, and asks: 'So, what can you do with the infra-red?
[April 18, 1998, 8:00]
Orange SPV C500: a first look
Talkback Go to the file manager, choose your file you wish to send, then click menu and choose to send via infra red. On the screen it should appear to say allign, however below this it will say searching. Click down to highlight searching and click beam.
[January 29, 2006, 11:10]
EBeam It
Downloads EBeam It allows you to send text and hand written notes over infra-red between palm pilots with message archiving.
[April 30, 2002, 8:00]
Fujitsu's biometric scanner reads palms
Talkback Also, I understand that the near infra-red scanner actually detects the de-oxygenated blood below the surface of the skin - and so it is not significantly affected by the temperature of the hand (there is a test on the Fujitsu web page).
[April 10, 2006, 17:36]
