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 [...]
Turn A Dead 360 Into A PC
Got a dead 360 laying around that you can’t fix? Turn that sexy piece of hardware into a fully functional PC. The guys over at Hack N Mod have posted a detailed mod which converts a 360 console into a fully functional PC. Best of all, no red ring of death on this one. Check [...]
10.6.2 Kills Off Atom CPU Support
Looks like Apple is taking another step to put a nail in the coffin of the hackintosh community. Looks like the developer build of Mac OS 10.6.2 lacks support for Intel’s Atom processor which every netbook around uses and is very popular in the hackintosh community. If this is a conscious move on Apple’s part [...]
RockBand For Those Over 40
Over 40 and wonder what the whole RockBand or Guitar Hero crazy is all about? Want to jump in but don’t know how to? Maybe you would be better off with Dan’s mish-mash of sound and electronics. This guitar has been stripped of all it’s internals and has a CPU and all sorts of cool [...]
Mamebook – Macbook Arcade Cabinet
Got an old Macbook laying around? Why not make your very own cocktail arcade cabinet with it. Crafty hacker Frederic Sebton decided to do something with the broken Macbook he had laying around. He crammed the internals into an Ikea Ramvik sideboard and with a little finessing and hacking he came up with this great [...]
Meet The Peek
Meet the Peek, a $100 device that will deliver you your email anywhere you can get cell coverage for $20/month. Think of it as a poorman’s Blackberry. This looks like the perfect device to pick up for some fun hacking projects. OS – Peekux CPU – CPU is an embedded 104Mhz ARM7 that is part [...]
CPU Vs GPU – Mythbusters Style
We have all seen various arguments on CPU Vs GPU, but have you had it explained to you Mythbusters style? At the NVISION 08 show this past week, Jamie and Adam from the geek popular show Mythbusters wanted to show the difference between single and multicore processors, referring to CPUs and GPUs, respectively. They used [...]
26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256
I always feel the need to speed up the process of backup my my dvd’s and encoding them with DVD:RIP, I’m sure this bad boy would make it fly. Calvin College student Tim Brom built, from scratch, a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer that runs off of a single wall outlet for about $1200. The supercomputer, called [...]
Really old Apple Ad
When you compare this ad to some of Apples modern day ads, well, it really makes you scratch your head. The Apple-1 was $666.66, a great deal of money back in 1976, about $2,500 by today’s standards, enough to get you a very snazzy iMac. It had a 40-character display with 24 lines, 8kb of [...]
