Sony 1 – Geohot 0
Remember the decision from a few weeks ago where a judge didn’t think they had jurisdiction to decide on the fate of jailbreaker George Hotz, aka Geohot? Well, Sony has finally seen their day in court and has managed to win a restraining order against Geohot. We all know that once you put something on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
VuQube Portable Dish
If you are a true satellite TV junkie and absolutely must have it everywhere you go then the VuQube is for you. I must warn you, it isn’t cheap. This isn’t like you average folding dish that move RV and truckers use, this unit provides you with a signal even while your moving. The unit [...]
iPhone For Pen Testing
The iPhone has quickly become more than your average smart phone, it really is a computer in your pocket. So why not use it as one? The guys over at HackADay have a great write up on setting your iPhone up as a penetration testing tool with all the goodies like Aircrack-ng and Ettercap. The [...]
Build An Annoying Beeping Thing
I’m always up for a good practical joke, especially the kind that involves electronics and can drive people mad. Get your soldering guns out kids, this is a good one. The Annoying Beeping Thing is a simple circuit board that is powered by a single 9-volt battery and outputs a high-pitched whining sound through a [...]
Use Your iPhone To Control Your Car
You knew it was bound to happen. With the iPhone already having apps to control everything from your iTunes to a remote computer you knew that someone would come up with an app to control a car. The Spirit of Berlin team have developed an iPhone app that remotely controls a minivan. They developed the [...]
DIY: Tesla “Spooky Spirit” Radio
A crafty Instructables user has written up a how-to on creating Tesla’s Spirit Radio, it even creeped out Tesla himself. The Spirit Radio uses a simple crystal radio circuit that us connected to a line-in jack of a computer to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic sources. “My first observations positively terrified me [...]
LED Hard Drive Clock
There have been many “Clocks” built out of old hard drives, but this one has to take the cake. Ian Smith this super cool clock from an old hard drive he had laying around. By using some tri-colour LEDs, a PIC microcontroller, and some simple vision techniques he has built something that not only functions [...]
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 [...]
US Court Temporarily Stops RealDVD Sales
Remember the “Legal DVD copying software” that RealNetworks released last week? Yeah, well, a US court judge has ordered RealNetworks to suspend sales of RealDVD until Tuesday so that he can sort the whole mess out. RealNetworks sued a bunch of movie studios to demonstrate in court that the software doesn’t infringe on copyrights, and [...]
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 [...]
Portable Apps For Your Mac
For the longest time we have seen portable apps for Windows. You know; the kind of applications you can drag onto a USB stick and have them run directly from the stick and never, and I mean ever, have to install anything on any machine that you may run them on. Now with U3 technology [...]
DIY: Laser Tag System
Remember all the fun you had as a kid playing with that Laser Tag system your parents got you from Consumers Distributing? Well you can now relive all of that excitement including point the laser at someone’s eye with the DIY Laser Tag system. The homebrew system uses a few cheap laser pointers stuffed into [...]
