Shogo Linux Powered Tablet
Looks like someone is trying to de-throne Apple’s iPad. Japanese company Redstar are taking pre-orders on their Linux powered tablet. The 10″ tablet is multi-touch friendly, comes with 1024×600 resolution and is powered by a Freescale iMX-37. It will also include 4GB of internal memory, 256MB of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G and a SDHC memory [...]
NCube: Portable Gamecube Goodness
I’ve seen my fair share of portable Gamecube systems, but this has got to be one of the slickest I have ever see. Designed and hacked together by a Ben Heck apprentice, the NCube is a beautiful creation. The case is a seriously modded Datamax Kid’s Delight and the screen is an unmodded Zenith PSone [...]
Homebrew Channel Back Up And Running
The Homebrew Channel, which broke when Nintendo rolled out an update on October 23rd, is back up and running and better than ever. Not only did the crafty guys mange to subvert Nintendo’s efforts to put them out of business, they managed to squeeze in memory card and SDHC support too. You can grab the [...]
Wii In An NES Case
A crafty hacker has crammed his Wii into an old NES case. The write up is quite brief and he promises a more detailed write up at a later date, but it does include a few key details. He installed some old Game Cube joystick ports and a Game Cube memory card. He has also [...]
Modchipper Hides Cash In Gutted Colsoles
Authorities found $23,758 USD jammed inside of four game consoles that belonged to a man suspected of running an illegal PSP memory card and chipping outfit. Videogamer is reporting that during the bust at the man’s home in London England, cops started taking apart consoles with the hopes of finding illegal mod chips; to their [...]
Neuros OSD – Hack Away
The Chicago based company Neuros Technology International has created a very unique product. The Neuros OSD (for open source device) is a versatile media recorder that, by using a memory card or a USB drive can record video from multiple sources that is then stored in MPEG-4 format. The OSD has not only open hardware, [...]
PSP Internal Drive Hack
Some crafty hacker over at acidmods added an internal hard drive to his PSP. The advantage you ask ? The possibility of 200 gig of storage! Thank the gods that someone is actually moving forward on this type of hacking, I’m quite sick of carrying around a bunch of memory cards with me when I [...]
New iPhone Killer? Motorola ROKR E8 and E7 Leaked
I must say, this phone does look quite slick. The picture above is the new Motorola ROKR E8, it’s basically a thin bar shaped handset with a JAVA/Linux based interface. It is rumoured to have 2GB of integrated memory and a microSD memory card slot for expandability. With a 2-megapixel camera, touch sensitive keys, mini [...]
Worlds Smallest 1080p Camcorder – Sanyo DMX-HD1000
It’s amazing how quickly technology moves, I remember not to long ago lunging a massive JVC camcorder that recorded stuff on VHS tapes, now Sanyo has introduced the worlds smallest 1080p camcorder, the DMX-HD1000. Recording video at 1080p at 60 fps it is using the magic of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoding to make it all happen, [...]
Cassette Mp3 Player: Smart, Very Smart
You can easily walk into any electronics store in the Western world and pickup a cassette tape adaptor to connect your mp3 player to your car stereo (why do you still have a cassette player in your car?). But this gadget wins the award for ingenuity. Not only will this gadget let you play your [...]
New standard for Memory Cards
Some of the industry heavy weights in flash based memory have come together to standardize removable memory cards and the technology embedded in them. Micron Technology, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Spansion, STM and TI have passed the chore on to JEDEC Solid State Technology Association with the new spec to be called Universal Flash Storage [...]
Pandora’s Battery: Un-Brick your PSP
The PSP has by far been the most hacked and modded portable console ever. The PSP has seen quite the share of hacks over its very short lifetime, but this latest hack from the kids at N00bz could very well be the biggest ever, promising to do nothing short of unbricking all bricked PSPs. They [...]
