The Radius iPhone 5 Case Is As Minimalist As It Gets

radium The Radius iPhone 5 Case Is As Minimalist As It GetsI personally like the iPhone 5’s design. It’s sleek, it feels solid and the choice of materials makes it feel like a premium gadget, but unfortunately it’s the same materials that has led to me fussing over my phone like it is super fragile. Some of you guys might have heard stories where the edges or even the back of the aluminum body of the iPhone 5 has been scratched due to aluminum being a softer metal, and in order to prevent that happening and to preserve the design of the device as much as possible, I went for the most minimalist case I could find. Some of you guys might have done the same but if you think that it still does not showcase the design of your iPhone, then perhaps the Radius iPhone 5 case might be a case worth looking at. At the moment Radius is a Kickstarter project and is currently seeking funding for what can be described as one of the most minimalistic iPhone 5 cases you can find.

As you can see in the rendering above, the Radius is a “case” (if it can even be called that) that hooks onto the four corners of your iPhone. Each corner piece features a non-slip lining and is made from aircraft-grade aluminum and has been raised ever so slightly so that when your phone is placed on its front, the screen will not be touching the table or surface. The “X” at the back presumably does the same. Of course this by no means protects the sides of your iPhone which we guess would be one of its flaws, but given its super simple nature, we’re sure that some of you guys out there wouldn’t mind getting your hands on it. At this time of posting the Radius has surpassed its Kickstarter goal, so head on over if you’d like to find out how to pre-order one for yourself or to learn more about it.

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Netflix inks deal with Weinstein Co.-owned Radius-TWC, films coming to watch instantly next year

Netflix inks deal with Weinstein Coowned RadiusTWX, films coming to watch instantly next year

Netflix will be expanding its streaming offerings a bit next year, thanks to a content deal struck with the Weinstein Company’s Radius-TWC distribution label. The multi-year deal will be bringing films like the Sundance “sensation” The Bachelorette and the Tobey Maguire / Elizabeth Banks movie The Details to the service, along with Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn’s followup to Drive. The fruits of the deal will hit Netflix’s watch instantly early 2013. More information, meanwhile, can be found in the press release after the break.

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DARPA-backed Power Pwn is power strip by day, superhero hack machine by night

DARPAbacked Power Pwn is power strip by day, superhero hack machine by night

Call the Power Pwn the champion of white hat hacking. Underneath that Clark Kent power strip exterior, there’s a Superman of full-scale breach testing that can push the limits of just about any company network, whether it takes 3G, Ethernet or WiFi to get there. Pwnie Express’ stealthy sequel to the Pwn Plug ships with a Debian 6 instance of Linux whose handy hacking tools are as easy to launch as they are tough to detect. There’s just one step needed to create a snoop-friendly Evil AP WiFi hotspot, and the box dodges around low-level NAC/802.1x/RADIUS network authentication without any help; in the same breath, it can easily leap into stealth mode and keeps an ongoing encrypted link to give do-gooders a real challenge. The hacker doesn’t even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN — the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way. While the $1,295 device can theoretically be used for nefarious purposes, DARPA’s blessing (and funding) should help keep the Power Pwn safely in the hands of security pros and thwart more than a few dastardly villains looking for weak networks.

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