Drive a car with an iPhone?

Apparently a team from National Instruments integrated an iPhone into an old car and programmed it to drive the vehicle!

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/11/16/how-to-drive-a-car-with-an-iphone/

I can't see if it's controlled remotely by another phone, or if it's coordinates are just programmed into the iphone app. I'm guessing they're just programmed in. But I can't wait for the business model of remote controlled demolition derbies. It's gonna be like robot wars full scale. Maybe the army should look into an army of $300 remote controlled cars to mow down enemies in wars instead of multi-million dollar UAVs.

Chinese and International Cyberspying

In the past 1.5 years I'd say, I've seen a very large increase in the number of articles dealing with international cyberspying occurring against US companies and the government in general. Especially in the case of the Chinese, I almost see no reason for them not to engage in this kind of warfare. When we develop multi-trillion dollar technology, the Chinese and other governments would much rather spend 1billion to employ the brightest minds and break into our systems to take this information. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist....it just makes sense.

The thing that always amazes me with technology is the fact that with so many things, this included, it pays more to spend 1million a year on a very bright hacker then it does to spend 100k/yr on 50 mediocre hackers. I feel like this applies not only with hacking but with high tech finance and research as well.

I just hope that our own country realizes the implications of this turn of events and is ramping up their own team of high tech combatants. We are in the information age, and that is exactly the advantage we need to hold over the next millenium.

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