the way it works is pretty simple: plug in my transmitter into the iphone 4 and play back any video clip. you can play it through the ipod feature or through the camera roll. the transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen that it's being held next to. it doesn't matter what shape or size the hacked screen is because the hack video will simply keep its correct dimensions and the rest of the hacked space will stay black.
i chose times square for my demo because it has lots of video screens to try it on. it is also one of the most monitored and secured areas in new york city and that made it that much more fun :). you can see in my video that the repeater is pretty powerful but the signal is not very stable yet. i'm working on that. i will post a new video later this week explaining how i made this prototype. [/youtube]
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cooolllllSo cool. Someone is totally going to put Goatse, Rick Roll, some kind of lolcats image though. Hopefully the context will be funny but I'm pretty sure it will be called some new kind of digital terrorism or something.
Ti_MothThe geek shall inherit the earth.
legacy0100Holy crap, If this video isn't fake, it is a proof that we are now moving into the sci-fi era.
DonanFearsays...If you know anything about video technology or even own an iPhone you know this is totally fake.
For starters how do you get a video signal out of the headphone jack on the iPhone?
The rest is even more impossible (impossibler?).
How does he create a radio signal strong enough to override the data stream in a shielded digital cable without affecting anything else. That's like detonating a nuclear bomb to light your cigarette without blowing up the entire city or even lighting anyone elses cigarette, multiplied by how many parallel data wires the monitor uses. HDMI uses 4 shielded differential pairs.
The specs and resolution of the monitor(s) being hacked are unknown but it still manages to scale and rotate the image to fit perfectly and even splits it up and sends unique images to different monitors in the multi-monitor setup. With a paperclip-antenna.
Upvote for the video editing. He even got the reflections right and the multi-monitor shot has intentionally bad bezel compensation.
MaxWilderI knew it was fake! You can't hijack a wired video connection.
edit: This is viral marketing for the film "Limitless". The second version of this video shows him discussing the drug NZT at the beginning with a movie trailer at the end.
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