F-BOMB Spy Machine
Security researcher Brendan O’Connor has created a tiny machine on the cheap that can be used for all sorts of “spy” like activities. The F-BOMB (Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors) is a PogoPlug mini computer with some flash memory and antennas housed inside a plastic casing. The F-BOMB can be configured to do [...]
XDModo Solar Charger
Most everyone wants to do their part to save our planet. Cars are becoming more efficient with hybrids and full-electric models, even furnaces now-a-days are super efficient wasting less fossil fuel. What most people don’t realize is that leaving a gadget charger plugged into an outlet, even if the gadget isn’t plugged into it still [...]
SiriToggles: Enhance What Siri Can Do
Now that we have a untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5, we can actually make Siri somewhat useful. SiriToggles is a Siri enhancer for jailbroken iPhones running iOS5. SiriToggles allows you to launch applications, toggle some system settings and check how much battery power you have remaining. A simple command like “Launch Plex” will launch [...]
AirBeam: Security Cam For Your iPhone/iPad
If you have an iPhone or iPad and a Mac then you already have the making of a great security camera surveillance system. Enter AirBean; an app for your iPad or iPhone which turns them into a spy camera which can be viewed on your Mac desktop or laptop. Setup is super easy — install [...]
Unchained Reaction: Reality TV For Hackers
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame will star in a new reality TV show on the Discovery Network titled: Unchained Reaction. Adam and Jamie will team up as judges for the six part series which pits two teams against each other to build Rude Goldberg style contraptions. From the press release: Discovery Channel [...]
Jam A USB Hub Into Your Keyboard
Here’s a hack that isn’t only simple to do, but extremely practicle; Adding a USB hub to your USB keyboard. Most people’s desks are already crowded and having a USB hub laying around can only add to that clutter. Michael decided to take apart a USB keyboard and a USB hub. He wired the USB [...]
Raspberry Pi: Cheap XBMC HTPC
XBMC has to be one of the best open source media centre projects around. It runs on everything from Windows, Linux and OSX to the Apple TV and even the original Xbox. Building your own PC to use for XBMC can be expensive, but now you can have a cheap (and by cheap I mean [...]
RIM: Balsille And Lazaridis Out; Heins In
After almost a year of investor backlash, Research In Motion is shaking up the top of their food chain. Jim Balsille and Mike Lazaridis, co-founders and co-CEO’s will be stepping down while the current COO, Thorsten Heins will be stepping in. RIM has been battered and bruised while trying to keep up with the top [...]
Behringer iPad Mixers
Just more proof that vinyl and compact discs are going the way of the dodo bird. Behringer’s newest offering? Three new mixers that leverage the power of the beloved iPad. These units interface with the iPad via a built in dock and dedicated app. The innovative feature set included in the new XENYX iX Series [...]
NES Controller MP3 Player
Some might say that it is a mortal sin to mod vintage hardware, but when you can take said piece of hardware and make it functional again it’s forgivable. Such is the case with this NES controller that has been repurposed as an enclosure for a portable MP3 player. Quite a bit of modding was [...]
Arduino Powered Espresso Machine
Geeks and coffee go hand and hand, and now geeks who love espresso can have some hackable tech in their coffee (or at least in the device that produces their coffee). This Arduino powered espresso machine has become the sixth highest funded project on Kickstater. If you know anything about brewing a great cup of [...]
Golden Zelda NES Case Mod
How can you be a geek and not love the 8-bit classic Zelda on the greatest gaming console of it’s time, the NES. Gamer/Modder Ryan Fitzpatrick took his love of the classic game and console to a whole new level. As you can see from the video below, Ryan paid tribute to the classic game [...]
iOS 5 On Your Older iPhone
Missing all of the cool iOS 5 features on your iPhone 3g or 3gs? Well, you no longer have to feel left out. Thanks to whited00r you can now experience some of those features without dishing out the cash for a new iPhone. Apple fans with those classic handsets can now experience app folders, multi-tasking, [...]
Intelligent Flashlight Will Show You The Way
Why use an old fashion flashlight when you can use one that will show you the way. This is the Way-Go Torch, an intelligent flashlight developed by Sriranjan Rasakatla. Not only will it light up a path for you, it will overlay useful data on how to get where you want to go. The unit [...]
iPhone 4S Jailbreak
The jailbreak for the A5 processor based iPhone and iPad is just around the corner. Chronic dev team member @DHowett has posted a video that shows an iPhone 4S running jailbroken and unthethered. In the video you can see Cydia running and the phone being reset without the need to connect it to a computer. [...]
