All the stories tagged with hack
Sony Online Entertainment taken offline
05/02/2011, Somebody needs to give Sony a break. After being attacked over a week ago, and only just starting to recover, Sony has a bout of bad news again. This time it isn’t the Sony PlayStation Network, but the Sony Online [...]
Gatling slingshot makes your kid the toast of the neighborhood
04/26/2011, It can be said that Jörg Sprave is one hugely talented man – after all, he was the one who came up with the rather wonderful machete slingshot, and has now set his sights on a gatling slingshot which on [...]
SNES controller turns Android phone into a gaming machine
04/22/2011, If you want an Android phone with physical buttons for gaming, you can opt to purchase a phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard or a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. But if you like your current Android phone and you feel [...]
Honey, I Shrunk The Crossbow
04/21/2011, When we talk about miniaturization, more often than not we apply that to the world of consumer electronics. After all, take a nice, good look at the cell phone – how has it shrunk over the years, starting from a [...]
iPhone radiation dock – yet another Japan-inspired device
04/19/2011, We’ve seen the DIY Arduino Geiger counter yesterday, but here is yet another Japan-inspired device, an iPhone radiation dock. This is part of the efforts involved to cleverly leverage the use of technology in order to help Japan with their [...]
Arduino Geiger counter is something Bruce Banner might want to carry around
04/18/2011, With the recent nuclear disaster over at Japan due to nature unleashing her destructive forces, even a well prepared nation like Japan with its triple threat “insurance” in its nuclear power plants were unable to envisage the double whammy of [...]
HTC Sense 3.0 (unofficially) arrives on the Desire HD
04/15/2011, It looks like what HTC said about Sense 3.0 not being able to work on their older Android phones isn’t true after all – it’s either a ploy by HTC to get you to buy their newer phones, or the [...]
Canon Hack Development Kit
04/13/2011, There are a great deal of Canon pocket cameras out there that are designed to be simple to use, and sometime that means reducing the number of things that users can tweak. For those who want to use all the [...]
iTunes music can be streamed onto any device with hack
04/11/2011, Here is a hack for those who are disgruntled with iTunes, as it breaks the software free from its shackles by enabling music streaming to just about any compatible device, thanks to programmer James Laird who wanted to help his [...]
USB rocket launcher gets some Kinect love
04/11/2011, It is only a matter of time before someone figured out how to make good use of the USB rocket launcher that we’ve covered inthe past – by hacking into a Kinect system, so that mere hand gestures are able [...]
ShairPort uses exposed Apple AirPort Express private key to stream iTunes music to unsupported devices
04/11/2011, A developer has successfully reversed engineered the private key for Apple’s AirPort Express and published an open source AirPort Express emulator called ShairPort. This means that users can now stream music from their iTunes onto unofficial third party devices that [...]
Motorola XOOM transformed into a phone
04/07/2011, It was only a matter of time before some enterprising person took the Android-powered Motorola XOOM tablet and turn it into a phone. While it might be one of the more powerful Android tablets at point of publishing, a decent [...]
Nintendo 64 goes portable in mod
04/06/2011, The Nintendo 64 is the last home console for Nintendo that relied on cartridges while the rest of its rivals have already moved on to CDs and DVDs, but that doesn’t mean it is a loser in any way. No [...]
