It seems fairly common that, every now and then, someone posts a cool article about technological type stuff that's possible nowadays. And if it's possible, that almost certainly means that it's possible for X-Factor! So I thought it'd be cool to keep a thread so we can be reminded of cool things that might be fun to try in plots and such.

Tez posted this today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10119492.stm Cool stuff about hacking into modern cars' computer systems.

I was pretty amazed by this during In Your Shoes: http://www.flexispy.com/ The al-Sahra software on the bank terrorists' phones was based off of this. But, you know. Designed by them and more awesome. Point being, it's a little ridiculous what you can track if you have time to install stuff on someone's phone.

http://io9.com/5549549/bulletproof-polo ... casual-spy

AND

http://michaelgr.com/2008/10/29/duplica ... om-photos/

Go to the bottom of the article for sneaky ways X-Factor might get someone's credit card info in the field, thanks to the wonders of RFID:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010 ... erns.html#