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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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C.S. and the City

Intel’s Eric Paulos and the edges of urban computing.

By David Pescovitz

There’s a bomb inside Eric Paulos’ storage space. It’s not your typical homebrew explosive, though. This is an information bomb. If you happen to walk by when Paulos fires it off, you may not even notice right away. But your wristwatch will probably stop. Your credit cards certainly will no longer be readable. Your cellphone will instantly become a paperweight. Carrying a laptop computer? Hopefully, you have a recent backup. With the press of a single button, the I-Bomb unleashes a powerful electromagnetic pulse that kills electronic devices and corrupts all storage media within several meters.

Paulos has demonstrated the I-Bomb at places like the ...

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