Identify device:
Cracked by: KK, Bharath, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Don42, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R and Logik
Sonic Screwdriver style universal remote control, released recently.
Guest question from %gqh% Bipin Banavalikar.
Identify and tell us what it did recently to super impress a lot of people
Cracked by: Anjul, rohanquizzer, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Don42, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Supritha Maiya, Logik, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar and sandeep bhat
Pebble Watch – Raised 10 Mil on Kickstarter
Now infamous cover. Who?
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Anjul, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, KK, Don42, vinayaknp, Vishnu Prashanth, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, rickde and sandeep bhat
Kevin Rose
If you have one of these, you can sell it for half a million bucks. What is it?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra Kumar, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, KK, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Supritha Maiya, Ananth, Don42, Rogi, sandeep bhat, rohanquizzer, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde and Anand
Apple I
Identify this funky kit:
Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Don42, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, KK, sandeep bhat, rohanquizzer and Bipin Banavalikar
Google’s ADK, or accessory development kit. Based off an Arduino and it can be interfaced to anything. Bring it on!
I just made this connection. For any of you who hadn’t, allow me to be responsible for your epiphany.
What recent mobile posterchild is named after this?
Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Shyam, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Swarun, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Jayaprakash B R, Dibyo, Ananth, KK, bastet, sandeep bhat and rohanquizzer
Instagram. Named so because, apparently, one of their first filters allowed you to make images look like the ones taken from a Kodak instamatic.
What’s the connection? Autoraja will be satisfied if you give him what’s blanked out.
Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Jayaprakash B R, Dibyo, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, sandeep bhat, rohanquizzer, KK and vinayaknp
TimBL(2) allegedly named the prototype of the web that he built ENQUIRE as a reference to the (at the time) famous book Enquire Within Upon Everything.
Connect Chilean politician and British computer scientist to weird room:
Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Shyam, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma and rohanquizzer
Salvador Allende(1) and Stafford Beer (2) built this computerized governance mechanism called Cybersyn (3) to “run” all of Chile. The whole thing eventually fell apart, but nevertheless one of the more quirky and interesting overlaps between computing and politics.
This device was all the rage a few years ago among the hobbyist community. Identify!
Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma and rohanquizzer
The Chumby - an open source web reader that worked off RSS feeds to give you the latest information.
What is/was the controversy?
Cracked by: Logik, Rogi, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Don42, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma, rohanquizzer and Bipin Banavalikar
Michael Arrington from Techcrunch went into an agreement with Singapore based company Fusion Garage to create a tabled called the Crunchpad. Fusion Garage then went ahead and made plans to release it on their own, causing all sorts of issues.