Wireless Dominoes Fall Without Contact
As a kid I loved creating massive domino chains and knocking them down. I would spend hours laying them out in the living room only to watch them all fall. These “Esper Dominoes” developed by Jarashi Suki and the IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group allow for all the same fun, but they use wireless technology [...]
AirPlay On Linux
Apple’s AirPlay is a great technology. It lets you stream music and video wirelessly to Apple products like iPods, iPhones and to the Apple TV. It also can be used to stream to Apple approved hardware like speaker docks, AV receivers and stereo systems. The problem with it, like most Apple technology, if your not [...]
Verizon and Google: Bed Mates
Earlier today Google and Verizon issued a joint policy statement surrounding net neutrality or what they refer to as a “Policy Proposal for an Open Internet”. I can’t even begin to lay out how wrong this is. <rant on> First, what the hell Google? Were you not one of the champions of an open a [...]
DIY ROV Submarine
This yellow submarine isn’t exactly the same one as John and Paul sang about but it is an extremely impressive DIY ROV submarine with built in camera. Made completely out of PVC pipes with some pumps tossed in to help it move and sink, this project and easily be put together by anyone with some [...]
WiFi Door Opener
We have seen our fair share of door opening hacks. Remember the secret knock door lock? That was pretty awesome, but what if I tell you that you can unlock your door from any wifi device? The guys over at Sunlight Labs have done just that. By using a WRT54GL and some creative hacking that [...]
Open Source DS Bluetooth Adapter
Gordan Savicic and Gottfried Haider of DSbrut have just released their open source bluetooth adapter for the Nintendo DS. The adapter will allow the DS to interface to other bluetooth devices like GPS units and keyboards. This should really open up the homebrew scene. Almost two years in the making, we’re happy to finally release [...]
Wirelessly Eavesdropping On Keyboards
Seems that every time you press a key on your keyboard a small burst of electromagnetic radiation is let out. So what you say? What if I told you that the radiation can be captured and decoded. Yes, some crafty hacker can sit near quietly and capture your key strokes without every touching or installing [...]
Hunt Down Wi Fi Leeches With MoocherHunter
Last week we showed you how to screw with people who were stealing your Wi Fi signal by flipping their browsers and blurring their images. Today we show you how to hunt those Wi Fi moochers. The problem with leaving your Wi Fi unprotected is that malicious people can use it to download illegal files [...]
DIY: Turn An Old Cell Phone Into A Skype Phone
In todays age of smart phones we all have an old cell phone laying around somewhere. Some of us might even have 3 or 4 laying around cluttering up their desks and work spaces like I do. So why not turn one of them old brick units into a functioning Skype phone, it’s not like [...]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Running OS X
The UMPCs are become hot little machines to turn into hackintoshes. The latest victim is the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Loaded with a slipstreamed version of OSX (in a similar manner as the MSI Wind). To top it all off, the ethernet, wireless, and sound work. If you have a Mini 9 and want to [...]
10 Things You Can Do With A 360
Physical hacks are great but that requires a screwdriver and some form of mechanical instinct. So for those people who don’t fall under that type of user TechRadar has a great list of “10 things you never knew you can do with an Xbox 360″. For example did you know that you could do the [...]
Xbox 360 Wireless Interface
A crafty hacker on the benheck forums decided that building a portable Xbox had been done so instead he decided to build a wireless video interface for his Xbox 360. The device acts more like a “thin client” and streams whatever his Xbox is playing. The unit has a 1.2GHz A/V receiver and the guts [...]
DD-WRT: Bring Out The Best Of Your WiFi Router
By using an open source replacement firmware you can turn your $60 Linksys WRT54G into a feature rich router that would easily be worth over $600. All with variants of the OpenWRT firmware. The DD-WRT firmware is a third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many 802.11g wireless routers based [...]
IOGEAR: Wireless USB to VGA Kit
IOGEAR is set to release a Wireless USB to VGA kit next month. The unit will offer you 30 feet of wireless video feed to any monitor or TV that has a VGA input. Why would you want to run your monitor wirelessly you ask? Well, maybe you want to watch that web stream on [...]
Better Cell Service With Cell Rangers
We have all suffered it, bad call quality, poor reception, limited or no service. Fear no more (we hope that is), Cell Ranger to the rescue. Cell Ranger is a company that focuses on enhancing your wireless service (once again, we hope). The company just released two cell signal boosters called Cell Ranger Stix and [...]
