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By Frank on Jan 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
If your car doesn’t come with some sort of built in iPhone control then you know your limited to bluetooth or cable hook-up to enjoy the tunes on your phone. If you want to eliminate the need for all those wires then the O Car stereo deck from Oxygen Audio might be something to consider. [...]
Filed under Gadgets · Tagged with 3g, amp, apps, audio, avi, bluetooth, cable, car, control, dock, ds, ea, google, gps, id, internet radio, iphone, iphone 3g, ir, loa, mit, navigation, nes, os, pandora, phone, power, radio, stream, tech.nocr.at, ui, wire
By Frank on Jan 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I’ve tried really hard to stay away from all the CES stuff that has been flying around the inter-webs but this story about Mattel cramming a camera into one of their 1:64 scale Hot Wheels car was too good to pass up. The idea is for people to get a first person view of what [...]
Filed under Gadgets · Tagged with ac, avi, camera, car, cat, computer, ds, ea, expensive, hotwheels, id, ir, loa, metal, mit, pen, scale, small, spy, tech.nocr.at, tiny, tor, ui, usb, vga, video
By Frank on Jan 5, 2011 · 1 Comment
Adding a ring flash to your DSLR is a real nice way off adding a soft glow to your portrait images. Problem is that professional ring flashes can cost you a lot of money. DIYPhotography.com has a simple solution if you want to play around with a ring flash but aren’t ready to commit the [...]
Filed under Hacking And Security · Tagged with camera, cheap, diy, ds, ea, flash, flashring, glow, images, loa, mit, os, pdf, photo, photography, rc, ring, tech.nocr.at, tor
By Frank on Jan 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Sure, you can control modern day video equipment like you Slingbox or satellite receiver via the web, but what if you have some old school gear that can only accept commands via good old fashioned Infa-Red? Instructables hacker nmcclana has put together a small embedded web server that transmits IR signals (Video after the break). [...]
Filed under Hacking And Security · Tagged with ac, cellphone, control, design, ds, dvr, ea, etch, fashion, hack, id, instructable, ir, led, live, loa, mit, mod, os, pc, pcb, phone, power, rc, satellite, server, signal, slingbox, small, tech.nocr.at, ui, usb, video
By Frank on Jan 1, 2011 · 1 Comment
After discovering James Whelton’s SpringBoard.plist hack for the 6G iPod Nano, Steve Throughton-Smith decided to play around with his Nano to see what else he might find. Steve may very well have stumbled on some kind of DFU-like recovery mode, much like the recovery mode that allows customized firmware (or jailbreaking) to be injected into [...]
Filed under Hacking And Security · Tagged with ac, boot, dfu, ds, ea, firmware, hack, id, iphone, ipod, ipod nano, ipod touch, ir, itunes, jailbreak, led, loa, mit, mod, nano, nes, os, phone, reboot, recovery, ring, tech.nocr.at, touch, usb, video
By Frank on Dec 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By using Bluetooth technology, the UnityRemote box takes orders from your iPhone and transmits those commands via IR to any IR device in view including your TV, cable box or satellite reciever. The app that you install on your iPhone to control IR devices not only allows you to send single commands but allows you [...]
Filed under Gadgets · Tagged with 2010, ac, amp, blu-ray, bluetooth, cable, control, ds, ea, follow, iphone, iphone 3g, iphone 3gs, iphone 4, ir, led, loa, Mac, macro, mit, os, phone, remote, satellite, tech.nocr.at, technology, ui
By Frank on Dec 26, 2010 · 1 Comment
We have all done it. Drive down the highway with a coffee in hand, the other hand fumbling with the iPhone trying to call someone. Alas, we are now saved by a simple $0.99 app that will let us make that call with our nose! NoseDial is easily is the weirdest iPhone app I have [...]
Filed under Mac · Tagged with 2010, ac, app store, apple, apps, coffee, cross, drive, ds, ea, finger, iphone, ir, loa, lock, Mac, make, mit, os, phone, tap, tech.nocr.at, unlock, weird
By Frank on Sep 7, 2010 · 1 Comment
Playing Dr. Who in a game is cool, but playing one while using a Sonic Screwdriver is even better. Later this fall the Wii will be getting a title called Doctor Who: Return to earth and the BBC has teamed up with a peripheral maker to create a Sonic Screwdriver Wii controller. Playing the game [...]
Filed under Gaming · Tagged with 2010, control, controller, dr.who, drive, ds, ea, game, Gaming, id, led, loa, make, mit, nes, nintendo, rip, tardis, tech.nocr.at, tor, wii, wiimote
By Frank on Sep 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
What information do we collect? We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest [...]
Filed under · Tagged with 2010, ac, bus, computer, drive, ds, ea, experience, google, hard drive, id, ir, links, mit, mod, nes, network, network privacy policy, os, pen, personal, privacy, rc, rod, service, small, tech.nocr.at, tool, tor, transfer
By Frank on Aug 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Imagine waking up and seeing Dr. Who’s most famous accessory, the Tardis, sitting on the roof of a building. A bunch of pranksters managed to put a Tardis on top of building 7 at MIT. I’m not sure how they were able to sneak a big blue police box on the roof, but koodos to [...]
Filed under Tech News · Tagged with 2010, ac, accessory, amp, dr.who, ds, ea, loa, mit, os, prank, tardis, tech.nocr.at, ui
By Frank on Aug 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Now that I am finally convinced that social media is not a fad I have decided to bring tech.nocr.at into the current century. I have received many an email from readers wondering why we aren’t on Facebook or why we aren’t on Digg? I have been a big believer of twitter over the past year [...]
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By Frank on Aug 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
How scary is it to know that something as simple as a USB stick can pull data from your iPhone (with some limitations). You really don’t need to be super scared just yet since the iPhone Spy Stick will only run under Windows and will only work with iPhones running iOS 3.2.1 and earlier, but [...]
Filed under Hacking And Security · Tagged with 2.1, 2010, ac, car, cat, drive, ds, ea, flash, forensics, gps, ios, iphone, iphone 3g, iphone 3gs, iphone 4, loa, Mac, machine, mit, nda, nes, os, phone, rc, spy, tech.nocr.at, text, time, tool, tor, usb, wind, windows
By Frank on Mar 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As a male who owns a home with a lot of grass there is nothing more I hate then cutting the grass on a hot sweltering day. Since my son is only three and he can barely reach the mowers handle I’m SOL with getting him to do it. Maybe I should build this awesome [...]
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By Frank on Feb 25, 2010 · 1 Comment
Let’s face it, terestrial radio is all but dead. Who wants to wade through all the commercials and limited avalability of the FM or AM dial? I listen to internet radio all the time, when at work at my desk and even on my iPhone when in my car and this little baby while now [...]
Filed under Gadgets · Tagged with 2.1, 2010, AA, ac, alarm, arm, audio, batteries, car, codec, commercial, control, dead, display, ds, e3, ea, experience, internet radio, iphone, ir, live, live365, loa, mit, mp3, nda, os, pandora, phone, portable, radio, rc, remote, remote control, sirius, stream, tech.nocr.at, time, ui, walking
By Frank on Feb 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
You knew it was bound to happen. We have seen Arduino’s used in everything from toasters to coffee machines and now we see the Brushduino. The cool hacks knows when you are brushing via an accelerometer that you attach to your toothbrush. By knowing what your doing the unit will tell you when it’s time [...]
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