A team of hackers released a video this week detailing how they have engineered the Wii U game pad to stream games from a PC. They did this by breaking the Gamepad's encrypted and modified wireless protocols. You know, that easy stuff. I really wonder if Nintendo is going to make a huge backlash against this. The hackers have been working on this since 2012, and they did it. I personally don’t think they’d ever want to sell themselves short and make their own hardware seem irrelevant. They have never really been into the homebrew community, considering they are a huge corporation. However, since it is Nintendo, you never know what they might do.

I'm working on a blog about Google Glass really taking off in our society. I consider Google Glass to be one of those things that will always be a bit taboo. Its been a year since the first person walked out on the street strutting their 15 hundred dollar pair of nerd attire and people are if anything, more turned off by them. So what have we learned from a year of Google Glass? Well, we learned the term Glasshole, or a person that wears Glass in public and is considered creepy, obnoxious, dorky, rich or making a statement. Mat Honan from Wired.com wrote “I: Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass”, and through his journey he came to some pretty notable conclusions. Some of which include why a Glasshole is a Glasshole, and where you can and can't wear glass. Overall he realized that it is, in fact, very difficult to be accepted, even by his nerdiest peers.

New york city mayor Michael Bloomberg outlawed e-cigarettes on Monday, one day before his last day in office, fearing how little is known about them and how they affect health. Especially anyone who might inhale second hand vapor. In part of the Smoke Free Air Act, the devices are banned every where smoking is banned.

1,058 people are serious about living on Mars until they die. A program called Mars One is a supposed non-proft organization to launch the first human settlement on Mars in 2023. The entire thing seems real, as it has a website and actual participants, however in so many ways this thing sounds like a cheesy plan. Or even a scam! A one way ticket to mars for these pooled registrants, of which 586 are male and 472 are female. The public, of all people, will choose the candidates who make it to the final round after a televised game show competition. It is said to cost 6 billion dollars, and begin with a permanent crew of 6 team members, then additionally participants a few years at a time.

 

Stay tuned next week for my coverage on CES 2014!