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Everybody, Scram!

—srikanth @ January 27, 2011

Sorry for the late post folks. Slightly-modified question from %gqh% Rogi!

Name the item in this recreation that everybody’s so interested in:

Hint:

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, lotuseater, jowens, Aravind and dineshk

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This is the infamous Los Alamos “Demon Core” that killed 2 scientists on separate occasions.


Seventies® FastForward™ 2008: Professional Edition℠

—devadutta @ January 26, 2011

Iconic photo from the seventies. Fast Forwarded to 2008. Who is blocked out?

Cracked by: Aparna, v.chandrashekar, AmK, dineshk, wanderlust, Ananth, Kaustubh, prateekbhatt, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Anjul, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rogi, raklodramA, puneet_k, lotuseater, lanu, Nanda, shrik, Muthu sundaresan, buk, shrey, rohanquizzer, Rahul Rajeev, appu s, Moju21, Logik, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Aravind, Tushar S, vkamath, Siddarth Pai, krudebox, Akhilesh, aditthya, Sohail Nijas, udupendra, piezocake and sandesh

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The Belt of Orion

—devadutta @ January 24, 2011

What is this funky pattern known as? You can find them on currency notes.

For fake bonus points, tell us what happens when software like Adobe Photoshop sees this pattern in an image.

Cracked by: udupendra, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, Suvojit Sarkar, Moju21, vinayaknp, lanu, Logik, Sanador, krudebox, Dibyo, KK, appu s, Inglourious, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Bharath, madhur, Rogi, lotuseater, Kaustubh, sandesh, dineshk, SV, jowens, Aravind, prasad, Sohail Nijas, puneet_k, level_roxpol, vkamath, Mikey, Raghuvansh, Qbrain, Thejas V R, Muthu sundaresan, dheeraj, mankuTimma, Siddarth Pai, Aparna and Antariksh Bothale

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EURion constellation pattern found on currency notes to help software detect the presence of a banknote in a digital image. Such software can then block the user from reproducing banknotes to prevent counterfeiting using colour photocopiers.


"I guess there is no one to blame"

—srikanth @ January 23, 2011

What is this account talking about?

Cracked by: udupendra, Kaustubh, shrik, Sumit Gunjan, shrey, Raghuvansh, SV, dineshk, Anjul, KK, Dibyo, Rogi, Sanador, Logik, vinayaknp, madhur, lotuseater, byslexia, Riyaz Usman, mrsgollum, mankuTimma, puneet_k, appu s, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, Moju21, krudebox, lanu, Siddarth Pai, Inglourious, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Manish Achuth, sandesh, Aditya Date, kanti, jowens, Aravind, titlesticle, Thejas V R, vkamath, Mikey, Mo and Qbrain

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That twitter account is counting down to the dramatically-named “IPCalypse”, the day we run out of allocatable IPv4 addresses. Apparently, the end is nigh.


Squint your eyes

—devadutta @ January 22, 2011

Identify this dude. His most important work can be found in the form of a book in every engineer’s home (home because not too many people use it that often anymore).

Cracked by: mrsgollum, Thejas V R, raklodramA, puneet_k, Shwetha Maiya, vinayaknp, Tushar S, SYEDMOHDMUNEERALI, rohanquizzer, Rogi, appu s, lotuseater, Moju21, KK, Rahul Rajeev, Sohail Nijas, Rithwik K, Bharath, Logik, Nanda, Ananth, shrik, Kaustubh, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, dineshk, Sumit Gunjan, Raghuvansh, byslexia, Riyaz Usman, mankuTimma, lanu, v.chandrashekar, krudebox, Inglourious, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, jowens and Siddarth Pai

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John Napier, inventor of Logarithms


Ra Ra...

—devadutta @ January 21, 2011

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 @ January 20, 2011

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.


Putting him in jail will be ironic

—devadutta @ January 19, 2011

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.


Fight the powah!

—srikanth @ January 18, 2011

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/ ) !


This happens only in Japan

—devadutta @ January 17, 2011

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” :)