By Mark Smirniotis
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I think we’ve waited long enough. We’ve lived in a world with too few plug-points and just the most pitiable extension power strips. The Casitoo Powerstrip is the answer to all our electricity-glugging gadgets and to their whimsical and quirky owners alike! Designed to be modular, the powerstrip comes with an exhaustive variety of add-ons. Aside from the regular sockets, the Casitoo also has USB ports, a WiFi connectivity hub, a Bluetooth speaker, LED lamp, Wireless Charging hub, and even Ethernet ports! There’s no beating the Casitoo, it literally has everything you need; and if you need more, just plug more modules in!
The Casitoo works on the principle that each person should be able to customize their powerstrip to their needs. Flexibility is the key term here, and the Casitoo does it EXTREMELY well!
Put that power where you need it with Prop Power. If you’ve ever tried to use an extension cord on a table or ladder, you know it’s an exercise in futility. The extension cord won’t stay put on the table and is held dangling over the edge dangerously by a wire. Prop Power changes that because it can wrap around things like ladders, table legs, counters, chairs, or railings. Bring the power right to your household chores with Prop Power. The flexible and propable gooseneck wrapped cord lets you put the Prop Power almost anywhere and have it stay in place for easy access. End the mid-air extension cord dangle! Prop Power is a 6 feet long and has 3 outlets on it’s end.
Call the Power Pwn the champion of white hat hacking. Underneath that Clark Kent power strip exterior, there's a Superman of full-scale breach testing that can push the limits of just about any company network, whether it takes 3G, Ethernet or WiFi to get there. Pwnie Express' stealthy sequel to the Pwn Plug ships with a Debian 6 instance of Linux whose handy hacking tools are as easy to launch as they are tough to detect. There's just one step needed to create a snoop-friendly Evil AP WiFi hotspot, and the box dodges around low-level NAC/802.1x/RADIUS network authentication without any help; in the same breath, it can easily leap into stealth mode and keeps an ongoing encrypted link to give do-gooders a real challenge. The hacker doesn't even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN -- the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way. While the $1,295 device can theoretically be used for nefarious purposes, DARPA's blessing (and funding) should help keep the Power Pwn safely in the hands of security pros and thwart more than a few dastardly villains looking for weak networks.
By Mark Smirniotis
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