DIY RJ-45 Cable Tester

Cable testers can be super expensive, but if your trying to trouble shoot a cable drop or run then you know how valuable one can be. Our favorite kids over at Instructables have a great how to on building your own on the super cheap. A quick trip to your local big box home improvement [...]

Sucker Alert: Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket

Wow, there really is a sucker born every minute, but is there anyone out there stupid enough to spend $147 on a so called “Audio Grade” electrical socket? The Wattgate 381 and claims to bring you crystal clean sound. I’m no electrician but doesn’t the quality of your sound actually come from the components inside [...]

Portable Data Center

A pioneering Dell employee has create a prototype portable data center. This won’t be replacing any of the big shipping container data centers that the likes of Google or Sun are building, but this is a great start to of things to come. This would be great in a disaster recovery plan to bring systems [...]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Running OS X

The UMPCs are become hot little machines to turn into hackintoshes. The latest victim is the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Loaded with a slipstreamed version of OSX (in a similar manner as the MSI Wind). To top it all off, the ethernet, wireless, and sound work. If you have a Mini 9 and want to [...]

$18000 Power Cable – I’ll Take Two Please

Furutech is preying on the stupid with this $18000 power cable. Yes, I did not miss a decimal point in there, the cost of this power cable is $18000. Yes I will agree that some power cables are better than others. Better shielding, thicker gauge of wire, but $18000, you must be off your rocker. [...]

Beagle Board – 2-Watts Of Linux Power

If you are looking for a Linux powered machine that has an extremely small footprint and only drains 2 watts of power look no further. The Beagle Board is an embedded platform perfect for all things hackable. It’s based on the TI OMAP3 processor and comes with 128MB of DDR RAM and 256MB of NAND [...]

Ridiculouslty Expensive Ethernet Cable

I’m sure that their are people out there who are stupid enough to spend $500.00 for a 1.5 meter ethernet cable. I should have come up with this idea, I would have become rich in a matter of months. Denon claims that using the old analog “signal fades over a distance of 5 feet” argument [...]

Convert Your Phone Lines To Ethernet Connections

Have you decided to kill off any connection to that evil phone company? Have you decided to move to a nice cheap VOIP provider and are now wondering what you will do with all them phone jacks in your rooms, convert them to ethernet jacks of course. This nifty hack will wire your house for [...]

Ybox2: Set Top Box In An Altoids Tin

The Ybox2 is the latest version of a programmable IP-connected set top box which fits entirely in an Altoids box. The system can be programmed to display widget-like channels on your TV via a library of freely available software. The unit even has a built in IR sensor so you can change the widgets with [...]

MVIX MX-780HD – Medica Center With Torrent Client

Mvix’s new MX-780HD Media Center not only has all of the basic features you would expect for a dedicated media center like a multitude of supported video and audio formats, streaming capabilities from your computer via either Wi-Fi or ethernet, internet radio capabilities, and HiDef support in the form of 720p, 1080i and 1080p format, [...]

Stream PC Games To Your PS3

A new interesting piece of software just cropped up called StreamMyGame which essentially does just that, streams Windows games over a LAN to other Windows or Linux boxes. The interesting part is the Linux aspect since you can install Linux on your PS3 then you can stream the games to it as well. It looks [...]

Archos TV+ – AppleTV Killer

Archos recently revealed complete specs and images for their highly anticipated AppleTV killer, the Archos TV+. The compact device is just about the same size as the Apple TV, but it packs some much nicer features. The Archos comes with twice the storage for less cost than the Apple TV. The TV+ is also capable [...]

A basic server for under $100

If your looking for a second computer to run some basic tasks around the house like a small web server or a file server and don’t want to hack your way into a Slug box then look no further than this compact system from Data Evolution Corporation. The decTOP computer system comes with 128MB of [...]