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99% chance this is just a Photoshop. The blog is about "visuals", not hacking or computer security, and I doubt that being a graphics designer is the key to figuring out how to transmit video to a Times Square video screen.
I’m trying to imaging the signal strength needed to override a cabled connection. I suspect it’s in the “lightning bolt” range of electrical power.
This totally reminds me of the movie, "The Recruit". :D LOL
99% chance this is just a Photoshop. The blog is about "visuals", not hacking or computer security, and I doubt that being a graphics designer is the key to figuring out how to transmit video to a Times Square video screen.
99% chance this is just a Photoshop. The blog is about "visuals", not hacking or computer security, and I doubt that being a graphics designer is the key to figuring out how to transmit video to a Times Square video screen.
I agree, in the video it's kind of surprising how no one notices it.
Most people probably aren't really watching these things. They either process it with their peripheral vision or glance at it for a while when they're really bored and there's nothing else to see.
Now, the image is rather ordinary and stays there only for a few seconds.
This isn't flying saucer or a plane crashing into a building. It's just a dude on a TV that displays ads.
How different is it, really, from the famous Blade Runner ad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ17UsZ0DEQ
Also, the camera almost never films people who actually see the screens. So even if there was someone pointing finger at it, we wouldn't see it in the video.
Several comments on the Youtube page say it's fake, chiefly because the iPhone jack cannot output video. Is this true? If so, is it possible he wrote an app with special drivers to pull this off?
I don't know about the headphone jack as a quasi video output. You could, in theory, sample the video and create an audio stream that was an encoded version of the video (though I suspect resolution, frame rate and color accuracy would all suffer to the point that it was noticeable on the large screens). The bit that makes it suspect to me is that the iPad already has a VGA output, and even then standard iPhone/iPod…
For a little while, the BBC did broadcasts of 30-line video using two AM radio frequencies (one for the video, one for the audio) that could be picked up by special recievers.
In the Netherlands there was also a fake hacker like this, it turned out to be a viral ad for an IT degree at university.