Smart clothes offer emotional aid

Clothes could soon help their wearers cope with the stresses of modern life, reports the BBC. The prototype garments monitor physiological states including temperature and heart rate.

The clothes are connected to a database that analyses the data to work out a person's emotional state.

Media, including songs, words and images, are then piped to the display and speakers in the clothes to calm a wearer or offer support.

A well-known hacker says he tipped authorities off to a man who confided in him about leaking a video of a US military helicopter gunning down journalists and civilians in Iraq in 2007, writes CNet.

Other information allegedly being leaked could compromise US foreign policy and lead to deaths, the hacker said.

"I turned him in to protect lives and to protect information that's essential for the US to be able to effectively carry out foreign policy abroad," says Adrian Lamo, once busted for breaking into computer networks of high-profile companies. "He was not at all being mindful about what he was leaking. He was basically acting as a vacuum cleaner."

The auction of a rare single-letter domain - e.co - has just hit the Internet, with bids reaching $16 500 in the first 90 minutes, reveals The Register.

The auction, which closes in just over three days, is being closely watched by the domain industry as it tries to get a fix on the state of the market for Internet addresses.

Not only have domain name sales suffered alongside the economy, but next year, it is expected that several hundred new extensions will appear as the body in charge, ICANN, liberalises the rules around running a piece of the domain name system.

Trend Micro claims to have developed the first security software specifically designed for virtualised desktop infrastructures (VDIs), says Computing.co.uk.

OfficeScan 10.5 is designed for multiple virtual desktop users, but - rather than pushing simultaneous security updates to desktops as a group - the software updates and scans desktops individually to reduce server load.

"The 9am problem is still an issue in VDI environments. Everyone logs on and gets updates so the server load peaks," Joerg Schneider-Simon, global product marketing manager at Trend Micro, told V3.co.uk.