U-Socket’s Now Shipping
For those of you who have been waiting patiently for their U-Socket’s to ship rejoice, they are on their way. FastMac’s U-Socet is a wall socket that offers your standard dual 110V outlets alongside dual USB ports to charge your multitude of gadgets. For under $20 you can equip each outlet in your house with [...]
Holy Surge
Although this is still a concept, this holy power bar might just work when you need a prayer to keep your gadgets from being fried by power surges. With a full 12 outlets, this will be perfect for oversized power bricks and adapters, it’s the catholic way! If these actually make it to production, I’m [...]
New Macbook?
We all know how rumours start swirling around the internet when it comes to Apple. There hasn’t been a major product from Apple that hasn’t had its share or rumours. The iPhone, AppleTV, new iPods, they have all had their share of chat on the internet. Apple is set to announce some new products tomorrow, [...]
DIY: Turn An Old Cell Phone Into A Skype Phone
In todays age of smart phones we all have an old cell phone laying around somewhere. Some of us might even have 3 or 4 laying around cluttering up their desks and work spaces like I do. So why not turn one of them old brick units into a functioning Skype phone, it’s not like [...]
Atari 2600 + Guitar Hero = Atari Hero
What happens when you smash an old Atari 2600 and a Guitar Hero guitar together? The Atari Hero of course. Conner over at Slippery Brick has done just that. This crazy casemod is a real beauty. The guitar is wrapped in a custom circuit board pattern, and in place of the strum bar is a [...]
IPhone-Dev Team Update
It looks like the iPhone dev team hasn’t been resting much since releasing the iPhone Pwnage Tool 2.0 a few weeks ago. The team has decided to update their progress. Even with the iPhone 2.0 jailbroken, there still isn’t anyway to unlock a 3G iPhone. They have managed to do other things like downgrade a [...]
Transform A 5G iPod Into a iPod Touch (Sort Of)
Hackers l3lack J4ck, The Revival, and djdut2000 have slapped together a custom firmware for 5G ipods to mimic the iPod Touch interface. Actually, it’s got a bit of the Touch and a bit of the Classic all mixed together. Clearly without the real on-screen touch system that the iPod Touch offers it takes some getting [...]
Super Robot Claims To Be Undetectable
The R/C Spy Snooper claims to be able to “enter a room undetectable”. It is just me or would you have to be deaf and blind not to catch this 9 inch long and 10 inch high brick on wheels make it’s way into a room? If you plan on spying on a room that [...]
WII – Like hot cakes
According to BusinessWeek Amazon reported that the 2007 Holiday Season was the internet retailer’s “strongest to date”. The hottest commodity was the Nintendo Wii, which sold an amazing 17 units a second, yes i said a second, while Amazon had them in stock. I know how hard it was tracking one down here in Toronto [...]
Blackjack! Save $840 a year.
Blackjack! The Samsung Blackjack is an awesome phone but when I tried to connect it to my computer on the road like I did with my old Razr, I hit a brick wall. So, what was wrong? After 45 minutes of hold time, you’d be surprised what I was told. Cingular “The new AT&T”, we’ll [...]
Solar USB Goodness
In my never ending quest to find suitable for every day use USB chargers so that I no longer have to carry a multitude of brick chargers around with me (Ok I’m done my rant) I stumbled across this little gem, the Solar Charger. Since there are many places in this world that can’t offer [...]
Pandora’s Battery: Un-Brick your PSP
The PSP has by far been the most hacked and modded portable console ever. The PSP has seen quite the share of hacks over its very short lifetime, but this latest hack from the kids at N00bz could very well be the biggest ever, promising to do nothing short of unbricking all bricked PSPs. They [...]
Clean up cable clutter
How many of us have a cables cluttering up desks, tabletops and nightstands. Below is a video showing a simple and easy way to clean up the cable clutter. I would warn you that almost every powerbrick produces heat so make sure you don’t end up with a neat box that catches fire and burns [...]
Apple Now Thirds Biggest Laptop Vendor
I was at the local Apple store in Yorkdale mall here in Toronto yesterday to pickup a replacement power supply for my Mac Book Pro when I noticed that almost everyone walking around in the mall was caring a box with a shinny new MacBook or MacBoook Pro. This came to me thinking about the [...]
iPhone Unlocking: What will Apple do?
Now you can break the iPhone away from AT&T. There are a few unlocking methods flowing around on the internet on how so unlock your iPhone and use it with another providers SIM card. Some are as easy as purchasing a special SIM card and moving right along, while others are a bit more complicated [...]
