Hardcore Portable Dreamcast
Although the SEGA Dreacast wasn’t the most popular console on the market hardcore geeks everywhere hold it near and dear to their hearts. It took a nose dive shortly after being launched, but due to the fact that some of the games that were released for it are just short of awesome and the fact [...]
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 [...]
Skype And Chrome Go Portable
The guys over at PortableApps.com have been turning out great portable apps for years now. Apps that you can easily put on a USB flash drive and run from any machine. All of the software that they offer is open source, until now that is. PortableApps has decided to add a handful of closed source [...]
DIY: Build A Solar Power Station
Why lug around a generator when you could go green and build yourself a portable solar power station? Okay okay okay, so you’re not gonna the the juice out of this thing that you would out of say a 1500 watt gas generator, but if what you require is less than 400 watts of power [...]
PS3 Laptop
Our favorite gaming console modder, Ben Heck, is back at it again. We have already seen his Xbox 360 Elite Laptop mod and more recently his NES Cartridge mod and now his brings us this super sexy PS3 Laptop mod. As light or as small as a netbook it is not but it’s still impressive [...]
Sega Gen Mobile
Do you remember the Nomad? Sega’s first attempt at a portable gaming device that allowed you to play Sega Genesis games? No? Let me refresh your memory. It was big, bulky, had terrible battery life and cost almost $200 and that was 10 years ago. In today’s world you can pick up the Genmobile for [...]
Portable Data Center
A pioneering Dell employee has create a prototype portable data center. This won’t be replacing any of the big shipping container data centers that the likes of Google or Sun are building, but this is a great start to of things to come. This would be great in a disaster recovery plan to bring systems [...]
NirLauncher – The Ultimate Thumb Drive Toolkit
For those of you who love to carry with you everything you might ever need to fix a friends system NirLauncher is the right product for you. You get over a 100 utilities included right out of the pop and it even gives you the ability to tweak it and add more. You can easily [...]
The Retro Mini
Got $49.99 burning a hole in your pocket? If so then you can spend it on the Retro Mini. Running off 4 AA batteries, the Retro Mini gives you an outstanding 8 hours of NES goodness. You can pick up old NES cartridges for pennies a pop these days so why not relive your childhood [...]
Margarator – Make Margaritas In Your Car
How many times you been cruising down the road when the craving for a nice tasty cold Margarita? I know I never have, but if I ever did the Margarator MSB-585 would come to save the day. The blender was clearly created for on-the-go drinkers. IMHO, drinking and driving is a really bad idea. Making [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tiny Projector
3M is reportedly close to rolling out a super tiny, portable digital projector. This tiny unit could be used to project pictures, powerpoint slide shows, pr0n, movies, or whatever else you might want to slap on a wall or screen. The lucky guys at Popular Science got their hands on the MPro 110 and reported [...]
Solar Powered NES, Genesis & Gameboy Emulator
I’m a huge old school gamer. NES, MAME, Super Nintendo, Gameboy, you name it (I’m really showing my age here), so much so that I must have gig’s of roms (all legal of course) and emulators on every machine that I own. Well, this portable media player is right up my alley. The EM-SOL2GIG is [...]
In Car Mircowave
Because putting on make-up and texting on your cell phone isn’t enough while you drive, you can now heat up your burritos too!. Maplin, which is something like a British Radio Shack, has rolled out a portable microwave oven that can be run from your car’s lighter socket. This might just be perfect for tailgaters [...]
