An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 12, 2024
- April 11, 2024
- April 10, 2024
- April 9, 2024
- April 8, 2024
- April 7, 2024
- April 6, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Team Treehouse
- Abduzeedo
- Vandelay Design
- Web Designer Depot
- Fudge Graphics
- CSS Globe
- Wal You
- Design Modo
- Android Headlines
- Daily Now
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
July 25, 2011 04:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LAAxm3CMIgQ/Cast-off-Gadgets-Spy-on-Owners-on-Purpose-for-a-Change
Cast-off Gadgets Spy on Owners (on Purpose for a Change)
Eric Smalley writes "For the project, dubbed Backtalk, researchers sent refurbished Netbooks to developing countries via nonprofit organizations. They set up the computers to record location and pictures, and send the data home to MIT--with their new owners' consent... The MIT team used the data to build visual narratives about the computers' new lives." 
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LAAxm3CMIgQ/Cast-off-Gadgets-Spy-on-Owners-on-Purpose-for-a-Change
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot