Crypteks USB offers physical lock and AES hardware encryption

That's surely an imitation of Da Vinci's cryptex. Looks really cool!

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/29/2596033/crypteks-usb-physical-lock-aes-hardware-encryption

There's a Kick­starter cam­paign going that might inter­est those who carry sen­si­tive data and swooned over Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code — if it comes to fruition, the Crypteks USB drive will com­bine both a phys­i­cal lock as well as 256-bit AES hard­ware encryp­tion. The drive itself is sealed inside an anodized alu­minum cylin­der with five rings con­tain­ing all the let­ters of the alpha­bet; all you have to do to remove the drive is enter your pass­word. Once the drive is removed, you can reset the pass­word by remov­ing and re-orienting the rings in the posi­tion of your choice. Even after the drive is removed from its shell, it's still secured by thely in use by thet. …

Little Printer serves up a personalized receipt-sized newspaper, twice daily

Not sure this is great idea. Especially when I think of trees. What do you think?

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/29/2596138/berg-little-printer-cloud-receipt-sized-newspaper

It hap­pens to all of us: you wake up in the morn­ing and awk­ward­ly clutch your cell­phone, swip­ing through tweets, emails, weath­er, and news. You know it's a good day when you man­age not to drop the phone on your face while doing it. BERG's new Lit­tle Print­er plans to change that with a receipt-sized col­lec­tion of per­son­al­ized mate­r­i­al that's no longer than 10 inch­es in length, twice daily. With back­up from a ser­vice called Berg Cloud, it offers mate­r­i­al like top head­lines, weath­er reports, Sudoku puz­zles, to-do lists, bite-sized info on a range of top­ics, upcom­ing birth­days, word of the day, Nike+ work­out reminders, and recent Foursquare check-insd he­err. …

Google Maps 6.0 for Android adds indoor maps, new Places homescreen

This seems like a genuinely good idea. Hope they keep expanding it.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/29/2596484/google-maps-6-0-for-android-adds-indoor-maps-new-places-homescreen

Google Maps for Android 6.0 just hit Android Mar­ket, and it's a pret­ty big update: it adds indoor maps of select air­ports, malls, and retail stores in the US and Japan. High­lights of the ini­tial list include the Mall of Amer­i­ca, Chica­go's O'Hare and Mid­way air­ports, San Fran­cis­co Inter­na­tion­al, and var­i­ous Macy's, Bloom­ing­dale's, IKEA, and Home Depot loca­tions. We just tried it out and it's quite well-done: a tog­gle appears as you zoom in on a build­ing that lets you select each floor, and fea­tures like restrooms and retail shops pop right up. Addi­tion­al indoor maps are promised soon, and if you're a busi­ness owner you can upload floor plans to get your loca­tiond. …

Microsoft reportedly launching Office for iPad in 2012

Microsoft office is that one application (set) that still people care for in Microsoft setup. That coming for iPad is surely a welcome thing. At least for me.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/29/2596371/microsoft-office-ipad-2012-availability

Microsoft's released a few apps here and there for the iPhone and iPad but has kept one of its prize bread­win­ners out of the iOS fray. Accord­ing to The Daily, that all might change in 2012 with the launch of Office for iPad. The pub­li­ca­tion claims that this new release will play nice with Office 365's cloud-based ser­vice, and iPad doc­u­ments should be com­pat­i­ble with the desk­top ver­sions of Office. In fact, this close­ly mir­rors both Office for Win­dows Phone and iWork on the iPad, with doc­u­ment sync­ing and com­pat­i­bil­i­ty between mobile and desk­top apps. Office for iPad's price point also is rumored to be sim­i­lar to iWork on iOS's $10 per app pric­ing.h iggger. …

DIY 'privacy monitor' hides screen from prying eyes

This is an interesting application of probably a known concept. Spectacles specifically privacy spectacles of different styles could become a big part of new fashion very quickly.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/25/2586133/hidden-screen-diy-lcd-privacy-monitor

Adding a fil­ter to secure your screen is hard­ly unusu­al, but a new mon­i­tor hack actu­al­ly works bet­ter by remov­ing the built-in polar­iz­ing fil­ter. An LCD with no polar­ized film sim­ply dis­plays white light, but pop­ping lens­es made from the film into a pair of glass­es lets the wear­er use the com­put­er nor­mal­ly. And you thought 3D glass­es looked silly. Read the full instruc­tions for mak­ing a pri­va­cy mon­i­tor at the source below.

Ubuntu sees massive slide in popularity, Mint sprints ahead ... but why? | ZDNet

This is not great news for ubuntu fans like me. May be i need to try mint

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/ubuntu-sees-massive-slide-in-popularity-mint-sprints-ahead-but-why/16550

Try to please everyone, and pretty soon you please no one.

Asus Transformer Prime goes up for Pre-Order in the US 32GB for $500

Friends, this may be the thing you have been waiting for. Check it out!

http://igyaan.in/2011/11/asus-transformer-prime-pre-order-32gb-500/18227/

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Why Facebook Is Winning The Great Tech War In India

So guys it seems we are all siding with Facebook. I would have wished it to be google. Even apple would have been ok. Amazon is not very known to us yet. Guys can we side with google. But my wish is not your command!

http://www.fastcompany.com/1796532/india-big-tech?partner=rss

In Fast Company's recent cover story, The Great Tech War Of 2012, Farhad Manjoo plotted the battle plans for the four U.S. tech titans: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The four companies have dominated somewhat separate parts of the U.S. tech space in the past, but are speedily converging on eac…

Jeopardy contestant Roger Craig stomps competition with data mining

It's all about the data. I think data crunching and mining (especially big data) is something which none of us can ignore anymore. There is going to be lot of it in the near and far future. What do you think?

http://www.theverge.com/culture/2011/11/23/2583181/roger-craig-jeopardy-data-mining

When Jeopardy master Ken Jennings recounted his loss to computer Watson early this year, he referred to the game show's questions as an "open domain...

Twitter / DataStax: Get a handle on #Cassandra ...

Cassandra is doing the rounds nowadays. DataStax CEO who is also the lead of apache cassandra is ensuring that people know more and more about Cassandra

http://twitter.com/DataStax/statuses/139137299098243072

Get a handle on #Cassandra in the #Cloud - 1M writes a second.#NoSQL #BigData http://t.co/5VWLihn2