Phaser Boasts 300mW Laser

Since you can’t walk into to your favorite weapons store and pick up a phaser just yet, hacker Luke decided to build his own. He picked up a toy phaser from Amazon for about $20 ripped out the internals only choosing to reuse the trigger, top switch and battery pack. The phaser contains two laser [...]

250GB NES Cartridge

This one is perfect for all you retro gaming fans. NES Cartridges have been repurposed to be many things; ash trays, gaming consoles, even coasters, but now a crafty modder has jammed in a 2.5″ 250GB SATA drive inside with a usb controller. Although this isn’t the worlds smallest portable hard drive, it is one [...]

Nokia N85

Yummy Yum!. Nokia has just unveilled the N79 and N85 (pictured above). The N85 has a 2.6″ AMOLDED screen, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, is N-Gage compatable, 8GB of microSDHC storage, WiFi, and a battery that claims to go for 28 hours when listening to some tunes. The N79 replaces the N78, similarly bumping the cam [...]

How To Open Any Door With A Single Key

Bump keys have been around since the dawn of time, okay, maybe since the dawn of locksmithing. With a bump key any door is vulnerable.. or that is what the guy in the video says. You will be taught how to make a bump key that will help you open any door. The only condition [...]

Star Wars Characters Now Hassle You From the Dashboard of Your Car

In addition to all those saints and Jesuses you have on your dashboard protecting you from god-knows-what, now you can add Yoda, Darth Vader and C-3PO, blurting out an assortment of thirty Star Wars sayings with every bump and jostle. Take the jump for a video showing these characters nagging the driver, along with a [...]

Rumours: Microsoft to take over RIM

Rumours are flying all over Wall St and Bay St at the purchase of global wireless email and data provider Research in Motion, the maker of the almighty Blackberry, by the massive Microsoft. Speculation even spilled over into the currency markets last night bumping the Canadian dollar up by three quarters of a percentage. Could [...]

Handbrake 0.9 Out The Door

One of my favorite video converting application for the Mac, Handbrake, has just been upgraded to 0.9.0. New in this version is a “re-envisioned” interface for the Mac OS X and a completely rebuilt UI for Windows. Picture quality has also been improved quite a bit through some neat new effect; filters and deinterlacing techniques. [...]