Gadgetory

well I'm here at DEFCON 20 we're looking at the 2012 ninja badge if you're lucky enough to get one of 600 of these you're given one of these cards go to a booth they will ask for your handle then you choose your telephone number and I've been informed that it's a European market HTC One V got a SIM card in there this is their custom wrong we've got a dialer contacts tdd service in a DEFCON past they took a door from a telecom van and they brought it back this year but with an entire van and the van has been outfitted with what I can only describe as a local cellular tower effectively what we've done as a team is built a code and a mobile device from the ground up you know Android is an incredibly sophisticated operating system and what's so fantastic about it is its open nature how customizable it is we thought to ourselves you know why not take this open customizable experience and actually create limitations and focus on a more social interaction you know around the conference so you'll see here the theme of the operating system is focused on the Yellow Pages and its primary functionality is within the dialer for example or contacts or the messaging service and what we've also tried to do is not only weave into it a social aspect but a way that discovery can happen where people who they don't know if they don't know one another can start communicating right away so for example we've built a network address sync function so anyone who joins the network actually you can see everyone else they're automatically added into the contact list and what we've been observing in terms of behaviors you know random people are just having conversations talking about really really interesting things relevant to the conference another really interesting example of what we've built is we're leveraging a really interesting technology called alljoyn technology which is runs over Wi-Fi it's something Qualcomm's created and allows us to do peer-to-peer communications we actually created a vending application that allows you to dynamically provision sodas or beers out of a vending machine simply by clicking on this application as much as we want to limit the experience we also want to enable people to hack the experience we actually built the Android IDE into the actual device experience so you can actually generate your own applications on the fly within the device or 80b into the device itself and customize and hack it from the ground up to build this we actually used a guy named barcode and some some friends of his Bob and Colleen these guys are professional fabricators they're they've worked on some really awesome projects for movies and stuff like that in the back we have a rack inside here we've got some servers and up here we have radio gear this is an edit research USRP universal radio peripheral software video profile and some other stuff that's getting into a duplexer that's going to the antenna on the roof and this this forms the the entirety of our part of the network the network itself itself is completely self-contained you can't call out to the outside world there's no data service it is really just voice and SMS we've basically been planning this for a year since last Afghanistan we have the first sit-down meeting it's all because of of our sponsors and the help we've had from all people who contributed to this that we're able to actually do this and give these phones away and have them share this experience and being on a cute little phone network