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January 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Ra Ra...

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fresh off the press. Who “invented” this thing?

Cracked by: jowens, Dibyo, Rogi, Nagendra U M, Moju21, Bharath, Sanador, lotuseater, dineshk, sandesh, Shwetha Maiya, jins, Raghuvansh and Ananth

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This is what happens when you let Lady Gaga invent something. Sunglasses with two displays which can display random videos.


Play out the zion dub...

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, vijayaraghavan, dineshk, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, vinayaknp, shrik, jowens, appu s, mrsgollum, Dibyo, Logik, Kaustubh, Bharath, lotuseater, sandesh, Thejas V R, puneet_k and Shwetha Maiya

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A “code wheel” to a game adaptation of William Gibson’s famous novel Neuromancer. The codewheel was a primitive copy protection mechanism.


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Putting him in jail will be ironic

—devadutta @ 23:59

Popular guy. First the iPhone, now X. Who is he, what is X?

Cracked by: Siddarth Pai, vinayaknp, Dibyo, udupendra, shrik, KK, Ananth, Bharath, dineshk, sandesh, SV, jowens, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Rogi, mankuTimma, vijayaraghavan and madhur

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Geohot the hacker who first jailbroke the iPhone now hacked the PS3.


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Fight the powah!

—srikanth @ 23:59

This is either a (very thoughtless marketing) ploy, or the beginning of a new era. But, nonetheless - What’s been blanked out? And where?

Cracked by: umang, Sohail Nijas, shrik, sandesh, Ananth, Rogi, jowens, Siddarth Pai, dineshk, raklodramA, Thejas V R, lotuseater, udupendra, Dibyo, Charu, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Anjul, Logik, Girish, appu s and krikkrak

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A pic of protestors taken during the ongoing revolution at Tunisia. The blanked out face was Mark Zuckerberg ( http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/protesters-mark-zuckerberg-good-ben-ali-evil/69732/ ) !


Monday, January 17, 2011

This happens only in Japan

—devadutta @ 23:59

Japanese awesomeness. What is this?

Cracked by: shrik, Rogi, Bharath, Ananth, Sanador, vinayaknp, Dibyo, jowens, puneet_k, Thejas V R, sandesh, Rahul Rajeev, lotuseater, Aditya Date, Logik, vijayaraghavan, Kaustubh, Siddarth Pai, dineshk, Anjul, udupendra, Whattra, Raghuvansh and Shwetha Maiya

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Sega decided that toilets in japan were too boring and saw a huge untapped market in pee-pots and made games for them. They call it “toylet”. Kinect has has a marketing tagline that says “You are the controller”.. I wonder what this thing’s tag line will be… “Your —- is the controller” :)


Sunday, January 16, 2011

May the source be with you..

—srikanth @ 23:59

What connects?

Cracked by: shrik, Bharath, Rogi, dineshk, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, Manish Achuth, jowens, Dibyo, puneet_k, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, sandesh, raklodramA, Sohail Nijas, Rahul Rajeev, v.chandrashekar, lotuseater, Logik, vijayaraghavan, Kaustubh, vkamath, Shwetha Maiya and mankuTimma

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All these drinks are Open Source, i.e. the entire process of creating them is open to us to recreate :)


Saturday, January 15, 2011

World domination!

—srikanth @ 23:59

Where would you see this?

Cracked by: Ananth, Rogi, Kaustubh, jowens, Dibyo, dineshk, Anjul, KK, Tushar S, Sumanth Patlolla, Sanador, xeqtor, Manoj Venkat, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, vinayaknp, Rahul Rajeev, soumya g, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, Inglourious, mankuTimma, puneet_k, Moju21, Sohail Nijas, rohanquizzer, Mo, cnik, shrik and Bharath

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The 404 page at the Spore website, of course :)


Friday, January 14, 2011

Image slam a tech mat.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify

Cracked by: KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Sohail Nijas, vinayaknp, Bharath, Moju21, Rahul Rajeev, lotuseater, Tushar S, shrey, Rogi, Kaustubh, madhur, dineshk, Ananth, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, puneet_k, v.chandrashekar, lanu, Sanador, rohanquizzer, Aditya Date, cnik and jowens

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Martin Gardner, recreational mathematician extraordinaire and author of the famous column Mathematical Games.


Friday, January 14, 2011

Linked-list winners are up.

—srikanth @ 21:37

Just a note, the list of winners of the linked-list series is up. Please let me know if there’s anything amiss :)


Thursday, January 13, 2011

Loafer.

—srikanth @ 23:59

(Very borderline geeky) What phrase has its origins in this seemingly trivial device?

Cracked by: Rogi, xeqtor, dineshk, vinayaknp, Dibyo, puneet_k, Whattra, cnik, Manish Achuth, Rahul Rajeev, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, v.chandrashekar, shrik, Moju21, lotuseater, Ananth, Bharath, duriel, Sanador, Kaustubh, jowens, Atul Mathew and Thejas V R

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Otto Rohwedder’s bread slicer patent. The phrase, of course, is “The greatest thing since sliced bread”