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During the HackerSpaceFestival 2008, we installed a room with a TES92 ElectroSmog FieldMeter (50MHz – 3.5GHz) to be used to measure the Magnetic Field from different cellphones during a call. The people were asked to make a call with their cellphone at less than 5 cms from the field meter. The TES 92 had been verified using a spectrum analyzer and modulation generator at 1v/m. The EU regulation usually make the measurement using W/kg.

Please find below the results from the different cellphones :

Cell phone EMF Results

Jean-Marc Manach d’InternetActu fait un petit article sur HSF2008.

Hackers et sans complexe | InternetActu.net

Un petit article en Français sur le Hacker Space Fest 2008 par 01 net.

01net. - Tentative d’intrusion de hackers à Vitry-sur-Seine

Consumer B Gone enables you to block a shopping cart by just playing some tones out of your mobile phone speaker as a song or as a ringtone. Consumer B Gone is born from the incredible shock that the shopping cart wheel could be remotely locked if you tried to exit the supermarket parking lot.

The root cause of it was an antenna (a wire in the ground at the exit of the parking lot) which sent a “Lock” signal to 2 of the 4 shopping cart wheels.

If an antenna can do it, I can do it too! The first idea that emerged was to create some hardware to generate such signal… but the hardware didn’t work, so the logic was to test the generated signal against the original signal… and to use a soundcard to record both!

Well… if one soundcard can record, maybe it could be used also to replay??? Replay of course in the adequate coil that serves as an antenna… But hey, wait! What if the coil to be used was the one in the computer’s speaker? Guess what: IT WORKS.

And what about an MP3 File on mobile phones? Guess what again, IT WORKS TOO!!!

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Today was the first day of HSF2008. For those who cannot be at the lab, you can follow the event via video streaming on http://justin.tv/hackerspace/.

Les pre inscriptions pour le HackerSpaceFestival sont desormais ouvertes depuis le site HackerSpace.net depuis la page :

http://www.tmplab.org/subscribe/

Le site du tmplab se prepare aux differentes conferences, workshops et activites performances artistiques en esperant vous y voir nombreux. Les aides sont les bienvenus dans les jours precedents le HSF en suivant les activites depuis l`IRC #frlab sur Freenode.

See ya there.

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We are pleased to announce that registration for the Hacker Space Festival is now open !

Space is limited ! So, if you plan to attend, please fill in the subscription form to make sure you will get a place. You will be given a registration number that you should note down and give at the entrance.

The entrance fee is at your discretion, you can give whatever you want. Using the online form, you will be billed via Paypal. The recommended donation is 50 EUR for the whole event, in order to cover the expenses of the conferences.

To subscribe: http://www.tmplab.org/subscribe/

We are looking forward to seeing you at HSF !

The Maker Faire is an event that occurs every six month and alternate between San Mateo and Austin, Texas. It is organized by the famous Make magazine http://makezine.com/ .

The goal of the event is to be a mix of Arts, Crafts, Engineering, Green Tech, Music, Science & Technology.

I was a lucky guy to be here for the Maker Faire in San Mateo, a city in the Silicon Valley between San Francisco & San Jose. The weather was perfect, sunny, perfect temperature.

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What would the Internet look like without hackers? What would
computing look like without free and open source software? What would
the culture look like with DRM and closed media channels everywhere?
Where do art and technology merge? Would Gilbert Simondon be happy if
he were alive today? Many questions will be debated during the first
Hacker Space Fest from the 16th to the 22nd June 2008 near Paris, in
the industrial outskirts of Vitry-sur-Seine.

The first Hacker Space Fest (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab near
Paris, France in June 2008. The goal of this festival is to bring
together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and
from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and
Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what’s
going on.

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OMG! They took it! They took the VCR! NOOOO!! Not the washing machine now! You sick f**k ! Rahhh… I spent so much time fixing it!!