Skype With Style

Using VOIP has become quite easy, so much so that my mother has dropped her landline and gone strictly VOIP. Now more and more people are adopting VOIP, microphones and headsets are a way of the past. Take the Tatung VOIP handset, it features bluetooth, WIFI and has a touchpad design. It’s currently only a [...]

Breathalyzer Microphone

I can see all the fun you could have during karaoke with this hack. Randy over at fffffatlab built this breathalyzer microphone. The breathalyzer microphone is a system for the inconscpicuous collection of blood-alcohol content level data sets. In other words, you can measure a person’s sobriety with a device, that for all intents and [...]

Apple TV Gets Skype

For those of you looking to add Skype to your Apple TV then look no further. The unofficial Skype client for the Apple TV is out. I’m sure they have some serious bugs to work out like the fact that there is no microphone of web cam on the Apple TV (minor details for Skype, [...]

The Best Guitar Hero Hack Ever

OMFG, isn’t this the coolest Guitar Hero hack you have ever seen? I want to see these guys live. Maybe they should use the Rock Band drums and microphone as well.

How To Make A Mic Flag

You ever hit the door of a big conference with all of your gear only to be rejected as press because your index card press badge that you wrote with magic marker and stuck in your hand just wasn’t cutting it? If your looking to pass as legitimate press, this microphone flag (as well as [...]

iPod touch VoIP app

So it’s no big secret that I got a 16gb iPod Touch for X-mas, and it’s an even smaller secret that I sold my hacked iPhone a while ago so to see a VoIP app that might actually work for the touch has me all excited. Apparently on new years day the guys at touchmods [...]

GSM Phone Line Interceptor

This tri-band phone and room interceptor is capable of monitoring just about any landline call, regardless of whether they are incoming or outgoing and transmitting conversations to your location via GSM. It is smart enough to detect voices in a room automatically, using its extremely sensitive microphone to transmit the ongoing conversation. The internal li-ion [...]

MicPort Pro: Podcasting Dream

If you’re like me you probably own a metric ton load of microphones from all of those podcasts you might do (okay I realize some of you might not do podcasts). I’ve been known to drop a pretty penny on microphones and other gear, hell I even own a mic that I paid over $500 [...]

Build your own laser listening device

This is one of those “it works, and it’s scary” hacking projects. Build your own laser listening device for about $3. Video after the jump.Via Funditor “In a microphone, sound waves (differences in the pressure of air) cause a diaphragm to vibrate back and forth, altering its resistance to an electric current. When an electric [...]

PSP Heartbeat Sensor Hack

It never ceases to amaze me how great the PSP homebrew community is. A guy named Art simply soldered a coiled copper wire across the microphone input, which then allowed him to pickup a signal from a wireless heartbeat sensor. It’s not that impressive yet he hasn’t coded a GUI for it just yet, but [...]