DIY: Wind-Up Cellphone Charger

Here is a great project that will keep your cellphone going when you have no outlet to charge it with. Ben Heck from the Ben Heck show took a cheap wind-up flashlight, added a small diode, resister and a female USB port to make a hand-crank charger for devices that charge via USB. I wouldn’t [...]

Eavesdropping On GSM

Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a method of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM calls and text messages by using a few cheap pay-as-you-go cellphones and a variety of open source software. The ability to listen in on cellphone calls has been available to law enforcement agencies for a [...]

Homemade Conductive Play-Doh

Here’s an awesome idea. Let’s take some homemade Play-Doh, change the recipe around a bit and make it conductive. You could make all sorts of cool circuits, like say wrap some of it around a cell phone to act as an insulator and then try to bring it on a plane. As someone who once [...]

Solar Powered Cellphone

Ever been caught with a dead cellphone and no source of juice anywhere to power that puppy up? Come on now, you know you have. Well, Sharp is ready to settle that problem once and for all. By dropping your conventional backlit LCD and using a passive matrix LCD screen the SH6230C will use a [...]

Vega Tablet With Android 2.0

With all the hype surrounding the “maybe possibily” release of the Apple tablet, other possible tablet like devices have been over shadowed. Take this uber sexy looking Innovative Converged Device called the Vega. The Vega will be offered in 7, 11 and 15-inch models and will all run Android 2.0 software. The largest of the [...]

In Case You Missed It: Week 44 Round Up

Another week another bunch of stuff that we posted. In case you missed any of it we have everything from Videogame Alarm Clocks to Secret Knock Door Openers. Enjoy. Gadgets A Cell Phone For GramaUSB Boobie WarmersFuel Cell ChargerBatteries For The Web 2.0 Generation Gaming Videogame Alarm Clocks Hacking and Security DIY: Star Trek Bluetooth [...]

A Cell Phone For Grama

With the massive amount of multi-function “smart” phones out there people tend to loose the focus of what cell phones actually are; phones. My mother couldn’t care less if her phone plays mp3′s or if it’s got a twitter client. All she wants is a phone and a super easy one to boot. As she [...]

Remote Control That’s Impossible To Lose

This is gonna be one of the easiest hacks you’ll ever do, at least from an electrical standpoint. Most electronics like digital camera and cell phones have a loop attached to them so that you can slip a lanyard on to it which in turn makes it easier to find or harder to lose. This [...]

Nuclear Battery In Your Pocket

Yep, you heard me correctly, a nuclear battery. Researchers at the University of Missouri have created super tiny nuclear power sources that can be used as batteries. Dead gadgets and XBox 360 controllers will soon be a thing of the past. The secret to these tiny power plants is the use of new liquid semiconductors [...]

Pedal Powered USB

Most people who own gadgets that are USB powered have a billion different charging cables. A USB cable to use with your computer, a few wall warts to change your stuff at home or at the office, a car USB charger, hell, some of us even have battery powered altoid tins to charge our iPod’s [...]

Is Your Cell Phone Safe From Hackers?

Looks like we are being told to be afraid of hackers again, this time they are going after our cellphones. Security experts at Georgia Tech are telling us that hackers could soon turn their attention toward creating botnets out of our cellphones. With more and more smartphones making their way into consumers hands and with [...]

Join The tech.nocr.at Forums

You asked for it so we brought it to you. The tech.nocr.at forums are live and functioning. Drop by and discuss anything that is on your mind. Think of it as an extended version of our comments but only cooler. Got a hack or mod that has been vexing you? Maybe you don’t know what [...]

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 [...]

Chinavision’s Projector Cellphone

3M just announced that their MPro110 tiny projector would hit the market in late September. This was awesome news for people who are on the road a lot and have to lug around projectors to do presentations. But did you know that Chinavision is already selling a tiny projector? Built into a cell phone no-less. [...]

DIY: Add USB Ports To Your Alarm Clock

Every night I fall asleep listening to my iPod, and every morning I wake up with it dead as a door nail. This cleaver hack actually came to me via my wife. She said “You put USB ports in everything else, why not the alarm clock”. So I did. As you can see from an [...]

Next Page »