Man Swallows USB Drive to Destroy Evidence

A New York man is facing charges for obstruction of justice for swallowing a Kingston USB flash in an attempt to destroy evidence.

The Smoking Gun reports that Florin Necula was arrested on January 21 for allegedly placing card readers on ATMs in an attempt to skim information from the magnetic strips. Necula was apprehended with three co-conspirators and while in Secret Service custody, decided to swallow the flash drive they had confiscated from him.

According to a February 25 search warrant affidavit:

"After being arrested, Necula was taken to the USSS Offices to be questioned and processed. While there, he grabbed Subject Flash Drive 2, which had been on his person at the time of his arrest, and swallowed."

Already in quite a bit of trouble for the ATM scam, Necula now faces charges for obstruction of justice. However, his story doesn't end there. Necula didn't pass the USB drive in a timely manner. In fact, four days passed and there was no flash drive to speak of. Doctors decided that leaving the flash drive in there was not an option and surgery was scheduled.

TSG cites a source that says Necula eventually agreed to allow doctors at New York Downtown Hospital to remove the item and he is being held without bail at Queens jail.

Corsair Launches Fast SandForce Powered SSD

Corsair's fastest consumer SSD has the Force... SandForce, that is.

Corsair's been fairly busy lately with the release of multiple SSD products. Today the memory company brings us another one that should look enticing to speed demons called the Force Series of SSDs.

The new Corsair Force SSD line gets its name from SandForce SF-1200 SSD controller, which performs with up to 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write to the MLC NAND memory.

"The Force Series are the fastest SSDs that Corsair has launched to date," stated Kevin Conley, Vice President of Engineering at Corsair. "We have been very impressed with the SandForce SSD Processor innovations in the months that we have been working with them, and we can’t wait to get these extraordinarily fast SSDs into the hands of our most demanding customers."
 
The Force Series of SSDs are available in capacities of 100GB and 200GB and support the TRIM command in Windows 7.
 
The Force Series of SSDs will be available sometime in mid-March. Prices weren't announced, but they won't be the SSDs sitting on the cheaper end of things.

Feline Frenzy – Another Facebook Game from Pakistan, a Good One!

Feline Frenzy is what they have named it; a Facebook Game from Islamabad based start-up called White Rabbit.

Play Feline Frenzy here:http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy/

Become a Fan here

Gameplay is about throwing boots at birds in the sky from a thrower that can turn right or left to aim the birds.

Along with there are cats flowing down hanged with balloons, you will have to aim at balloons so that cat’s don’t fall on ground safely. If four cats reach the ground, on either side – that’s the end of game.

With scores, you cross the levels. There are different boot types that get unlocked as you proceed with game levels. Watch out before firing boots, as each shot gonna cost you points.

Game is pretty addictive in nature; you may easily end up spending enough time playing it.

DoomBOX Makes id's Classic Shooter Portable

This post over on Dashfest details how a modder created a portable gaming machine using a Kodak DC290 camera and a copy of id Software's classic FPS, Doom. Apparently this camera has the ability--intended or not--to allow apps written/ported to its digital OS. In this particular case, the modder chose to import Doom, however the camera offered no real means of controlling the space marine.

"Doom was playable on it, but the button locations are TERRIBLE to play with, and they were wearing out quickly," the post reads. "So I had the idea to cram the camera guts in a case, with nice classic “keyboard” type controls."

A modder hacked a Kodak camera to make a portable gaming device.

The lens, sensor, and focusing system were taken out of the camera-- anything that wasn't vital to runningDoom were set aside. The power supply board, soldered directly to the camera's mainboard at a 90 degree angle, was de-soldered and reconnected via wires.

The creation of the button board came next, made from a standard Radio Shack protoboard and buttons salvaged from a vintage PC keyboard. The actual keys were ripped from a laptop keyboard.

"This is back when they used to build keyboards with individual switches, instead of a membrane," the post reads. "These aren't “clicky” keys however, they have a soft feel. Rather than soldering the wires from the button board to the motherboard directly, I decided to create a 16 pin “header” for easy assembly."

By the end of the post, the end result looks rather cool: a portable Doom player with the appropriate arrow keys, SHIFT, ESC, and the camera's original LCD screen displaying the game in a rather small way. Check out the demonstration in the video below!