B&N Nook Officially Released

Barnes and Noble today officially revealed today their e-book reader, the Nook. So what does it have to offer? It measures 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches and it weighs only 11.2 ounces. It comes with two screens, a 6-inch grayscale e-in display and a 3.5-inch colour touchscreen that sits just under the main screen. [...]

Hide Your Data With A Fake Phone Jack

Are you afraid of the black helicopters flying overhead? Maybe you owe the IRA IRS a bunch of money and want to keep your financial records from prying eyes. Well, if you answered yes to any of the above then the USB phone jack is for you. Sure you could hollow out a book and [...]

Portable N64

It’s truly amazing that the hacking community in the benheck forums continues to provide quality hacks like this portable N64. Darth 64 is a portable N64 that uses parts from a N64, PSx, GameCube, and a Lazer Doodle (that’s the case). List of features: Psone screen with original backlight. Flush mounted headphone jack. 5000maH Li-Poly [...]

How To: Make A Metal Detector

Most kids are absolutely fascinated with electronic projects of some sort, take me for example, when I was a kids all I wanted to do was build radio receivers and play with my metal detector. That being said, I really wished that I knew about building this many years ago. This just seem to be [...]

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 [...]

Inflight USB: Power for you gadgets from an audio jack

The Inflight USB Power Unit connects directly to the headphone jack found in most commercial airlines. The unit passes power to your gadgets via a USB connection. It would be better if every seat had a power jack (Air Canada’s A320 does!), but instead we are stuck with audio jacks. It uses and ingenious trickle [...]

iPod Pocket Dock AV

Staying in hotels for a few months out of the year have taught me to ensure I stay entertained while I’m abroad, and since most hotels are now equipped with a modern TV that contains video inputs bringing my iPod with me for visual entertainment is a must. This little puppy replaces a bag full [...]