3D Printing Wood | Tech Talk Today 114

3D Printing Wood | Tech Talk Today 114

The hottest Smartwatch at CES 2015 is running Open WebOS, we share the details. Tablets in cars & 3D printing with wood and other materials.

Plus some follow up & the Drone Rodeo!

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Exclusive: The hottest smartwatch of CES isn’t running Android Wear — it’s Open webOS | Android Central

We tracked down the Audi/LG watch — still officially nameless, by the way — in Las Vegas today, and we can exclusively reveal that it’s not running Android Wear as originally believed. In fact, it’s packing completely different software based on LG’s Open webOS.

The most beautiful tablet you’ll ever own comes with an Audi Q7

While the primary purpose of the tablet is entertainment for your rear passengers, the Audi Tablet also controls most of the car’s electronic functions. Passengers in the Q7 can have a look at the current route via a map app and can even set a new waypoint and pass it to the main stack in the front via WiFi. Music choices, media access, speed and even data showing if your driver has been keeping up with the maintenance are all on tap. Charging and a serial port that interfaces with the car’s CANBus — for communication with the auto’s systems — are on the back of the device and a standard micro-USB port and headphone jack are, too

10.1-inch tablet being driven by a Tegra 4

This is the most insane wireless router in the history of mankind | The Verge

The router in question is the D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router, and make no mistake: as these things go it’s more than solid. Six antennas, support for the latest 802.11 protocols, and speeds up to 3.2Gbps. And this is just one of D-Link’s new Ultra series (it’ll be available on Newegg tomorrow for $309.99).

But mostly it just looks bonkers.

MakerBot makes 3D printing more realistic with metal, wood and stone – CNET

MakerBot announced Tuesday here at the 2015 International CES that it’s using new PLA Composite Filaments made with composites of real metal, stone and wood. Basically, these materials, in powder form, are mixed with regular PLA filament to create a new special type of filament. As the result, the printed objects will provide more of the look and certain characteristics of the materials being used.

For example, an object printed using metal PLA filament can be magnetized and is heavier than the same object printed using regular pure-plastic PLA filaments.

In order to print the new materials, however, a new extruder is needed for each material type. The good news is all MakerBot’s fifth-generation 3D printers support a Smart Extruder, which can be easily swapped out.

FBI Director: Sony’s ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Revealed Their IP Addresses | WIRED

Speaking at a Fordham Law School cybersecurity conference Wednesday, Comey said that he has “very high confidence” in the FBI’s attribution of the attack to North Korea. And he named several of the sources of his evidence, including a “behavioral analysis unit” of FBI experts trained to psychologically analyze foes based on their writings and actions. He also said that the FBI compared the Sony attack with their own “red team” simulations to determine how the attack could have occurred. And perhaps most importantly, Comey now says that the hackers in the attack failed on multiple occasions to use the proxy servers that bounce their Internet connection through an obfuscating computer somewhere else in the world, revealing IP addresses that tied them to North Koreans.

In his statement Wednesday, Comey acknowledged the skepticism about the FBI’s attributions claims. But he responded that “they don’t have the facts that I have. They don’t see what I see.”

Racing in a Las Vegas Drone Rodeo — CES 2015 – YouTube

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