Plasma Bigscreen is the free open-source user interface experience for “dumb” TVs
Smart TVs are everywhere these days. Most of them are based on Android and they collect a whole bunch of data from you. Some of them are even spying on you. Vizio was busted for using 11 million TVs to spy on its customers.
So what to do? You can:
1. If you already own a smart TV ( or don’t want to bother with option #2 ), consider using Pi-Hole and avoid smart TV with incorporated webcams and mics or remote with incporporated mics.
2. Take a look at KDE’s Plasma Bigscreen project.
Rocking a 8 MHz CPU, 4 MB RAM, 50 MB hard drive, and 512 x 384 pixel black-and-white screen, engineer Jeff Keacher decided to connect his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the internet
Probably hard to tell, but the picture above shows a Mac Plus (in a Mac 512k case) viewing its own Wikipedia page via the ancient MacWeb browser. Rocking a 8 MHz CPU, 4 MB RAM, 50 MB hard drive, and 512 x 384 pixel black-and-white screen, engineer Jeff Keacher decided to connect his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the internet using a Raspberry Pi, serial adapters and voltage converters. Jump over the break to check out the video and read the full story on Jeff’s blog.
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Shopkick has teamed up with Macy’s to bring the first retail-based iBeacons, which will allow customers to find location-specific deals, discounts, and recommendations in the Shopkick app while in a participating Macy’s store
Shopkick has teamed up with Macy’s to bring the first retail-based iBeacons, which will allow customers to find location-specific deals, discounts, and recommendations in the Shopkick app while in a participating Macy’s store, located in Herald Square, New York and Union Square, San Francisco.
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check out a step-by-step tutorial on how to make your very own iBeacon out of a raspberry pi
First of all, let’s start by explaining what is iBeacons: Introduced with iOS 7, iBeacons is an Apple feature/technology that allows apps to recognize when an iPhone is near a small wireless sensor called ‘beacon or iBeacon’ which can transmit data to that iPhone and vice-versa using Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE ). No need to touch or bump phones, or devices. In other words, iBeacons might just be the thing that ends NFC ( or at least poses a serious threat ). There’s already two companies that are jumping on board the iBeacons trains: Estimote and PayPal.
What is Bluetooth Low Energy? Bluetooth low energy (or Bluetooth LE, or BLE, marketed as Bluetooth Smart) is a wireless computer network technology which is aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, security, and home entertainment industries. Compared to “Classic” Bluetooth, BLE is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and lower cost, whilst maintaining a similar communication range. BLE was originally introduced under the name Wibree by Nokia in 2006, but it was merged into the main Bluetooth standard in 2010, when the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0 was adopted.
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John Leake has created what may be the world’s smallest working Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi computer, PVC, some off-the shelf parts and a Mac emulator running under Linux. He calls it “Mini Mac.”
John Leake, co-host of the RetroMacCast, has created what may be the world’s smallest working Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi computer, PVC, some off-the shelf parts and a Mac emulator running under Linux. He calls it “Mini Mac.”
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