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Gadget Lovers Guide to Halloween

digitaldudz-1As Halloween fast approaches, now is the time to stock up on everything you need to celebrate this spooky event. It is the one time of the year that both adults and children get to dress up, eat candy and enjoy a little spooky fun. Morph Costumes is one of the leading suppliers of Halloween fancy dress outfits. If you’re a gadget lover you will be interested to know that there are plenty of gruesome, impressive Halloween themed gadgets available on the market.

Digital Dudz Halloween gadgets

When searching for Halloween gadgets, Digital Dudz is one of the main brands to focus on. They offer some of the most advanced, high tech gadgets on the market. The company has a particularly impressive Halloween t-shirt collection. The ‘Frantically Moving Eyeball’ and ‘Beating Heart Zombie’ t-shirts are extremely realistic. Featuring realistic animations, these t-shirts are sure to provide quite a few scares!

These are some of the first t-shirts to feature wearable technology. You will need to download an app on your smartphone, place the phone in your pocket and then place a shirt over to get the full effects of the beating heart flesh wound skin suit. Other t-shirts in the collection can be worn alone, though you still need your phone to activate them.

Digital Dudz has a great range of costumes and most feature animations. Take a look at the full collection today. 

Re-enact the famous shower scene from Psycho

Ok, so you won’t actually be re-enacting the famous gruesome shower scene, but you’ll certainly feel like you are! As featured by NBC News, the electronic serial killer shower curtain is a unique, spooky addition to your morning shower! Scare your friends and family by fitting the curtain on Halloween morning. As they shower they will hear the Psycho theme music along with horrific screams. It works by detecting motion and sound so the more noise you make, the longer the terror will continue.

Front door animated axe killer

If money isn’t an issue, the axe killer animatronic prop is an excellent gadget to invest in. Seen on THEFW website, this impressive animated screen features a real-life looking axe wielding maniac trying to smash through the glass. Place it on your front door to scare any visitors. Beware that this may prove a little too terrifying for young children!  

Affordable Halloween gadgets

You don’t need to have a lot of money to enjoy spooky gadgets this Halloween. There are plenty of smaller gadgets that have a similar spooky effect. The haunted toilet roller is a good example. Simply place it on your toilet roll holder and tell people your bathroom is haunted. As they grab the toilet paper screaming, howling and moaning sounds will be released. This is definitely going to cause quite a few shocks!

As you can see, there are plenty of gadgets available to add an extra spooky quality to the home. No matter what your budget, there is always something you can afford to make your Halloween more memorable and fun. 

 

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The most hackable luxury cars of 2014

8856128220_21eef475e1_zTechnology always seems to come a long way in a relatively short amount of time. Recently the media has been reporting on ‘hackable’ cars, not in terms of being physically hacked into, but technologically. The ability to hack into a car may not yet be fully possible, but is it only a matter of time?

Does the thought of buying a new luxury car seem less appealing due to the fact that there is a chance that it may be ‘hacked in to’ in the future? This may make it more appealing to buy a second-hand luxury car but, from the study, “A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces” some older cars may still be at risk.

We’re all aware of the drawbacks and data security risks of modern technology, but one industry where we don’t tend to think in terms of cybersecurity is the motor trade. “Connected cars” are becoming standard; new vehicles come laden with GPS, Bluetooth and there’s a general trend towards software based management systems. This has led to the study above attempting to highlight the ‘most hackable cars’ on the market.

‘Hackability’ was judged in terms of three key areas: Network Architecture, Attack Surface, and Cyber Physical Features. Roughly, the network architecture is the location, build and design of each of the computers within a car.  The attack surface is any location where a hacker can try to modify, alter or enter anything into the system, such as any accessible ports, or points where malicious code can be entered.  Cyber physical features include how the computer networks, and interacts or measures its environment, such as in collision detection within cars.

The 2006 Ford Fusion illustrated how anyone interested in older model used cars have far less to worry about in terms of connectivity and ‘hackability’. The 06 Fusion scored double minuses in all categories, but more to the point, this score shows how cars have come on technologically in the last eight years. View current vehicle values and see how they’ve changed over time in a 3-year, 5-year and to-date intervals. Compare these values to other vehicles and benchmark financial indices.

The 2006 Prius and the 2006 Range Rover also scored very low, further serving as benchmarks for old car safety. Contrast this with the 2014 Range Rover Evoque and the 2014 Prius which both scored plenty of +’s.

In reality, we tend to err towards technology despite its pitfalls, and it’s not often we’ll get cybercriminals with a laptop invading our car for unknown gain; but the study does provide food for thought. Those who wish to stay on the safe side of technology could probably do well to buy older versions of marks like the Audi A8. A 2005 version of the Audi A8 on Carmony.co.uk can easily sell for a lot less than the 2014 version with very little risk of software malfunction.

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