It has been fascinating to watch the rise of the #BadgeLife community in North America, and a little sad when viewed from a European perspective that their creative vibrancy has not quite fully made ...

The first big surprise Vegas had in store for everyone is that the DEF CON badge is an electronic badge this year. It’s traditionally been the DC practice to alternate years between electronic and non ...

Now, now, don’t get too excited. Creator Joe Grand designed it to be hacked. Still, 10 minutes is a pretty respectable time for the soldering, reprogramming and reflashing job done by Dave Bullock, ...

Joe Grand, once known as Kingpin with the legendary hacking group L0pht, has co-hosted the Discovery Channel's Prototype This and runs Grand Idea Studio. But Grand, an electrical engineer, was the ...

If you are attending the upcoming DEF CON conference you may be interested in a new hackable electronic badge created by electronics hacker John Adams. The DEF CON badge comes equipped with RGB LEDs, ...

Annual hacker outing Defcon has become so popular, attendees have been – predictably – scamming their way in for years by creating fake badges. But not this year, as organizers created a souped-up, ...

Todays Video of the Day features someone demonstrating the badge from Defcon 2007. I'm not sure how someone could take something as cool as this badge and make a video so boring from it. The money ...