Tag Archives: hacks

Today, everything is about bulk. Everything is becoming more compact, even dare we say “snack-sized”. This user on the Ben Heck forums put together a creative gift for his girlfriend’s birthday. A NES Controller with the entire console built-in to the controller, as well as some built in-games. The NES Controller features the 2 player version of tetris, and a ...

Instead of worrying about buying an assortment of custom lenses for your video camera, why not just add your own SLR lenses on to the one you already own. The problem with adding multiple lenses is that your display winds up upside down because of all of the mirrored images. Joshua Reich fixes this problem with a few harmless tweaks ...

� How many cooling fans does it take to optimize your computers core temperature? Probably not this many. This PC mod is a tower composed of 66 cooling fans on the front, back, bottom, and top of the desktop. A project like this wold be much more time consuming than some DIY methods of cooling. With a PC like this, ...

Featuring full slide action, this very miniature Nokia 5200 toy is small enough to get lost among the coins in your pocket, yet still resembles the slider phone. Did we mention it can slide despite its size? It can actually slide! Oh, and it also features an image of a kitty on the screen. Pst, Pst, here kitty kitty. — ...

Man, oh man, have we seen some kickass notebook mods in our day. It feels like it was only yesterday that I was proclaiming the iTop the coolest thing since sliced bread. This Antique notebook mod is really one for the record books. Running off of Ubuntu (like that even matters when your computer looks like this), the Heirloom mod ...

It’s not quite late enough in the year to start thinking about Valentine’s Day ideas, but this was too witty to pass up. Here is the iconic “Roses Are Red” poem…geek-o-fied. Otherwise known as the love virus. Roses are #ff0000 Violets are #0000ff All my base Are belong to you Awwwww. — Andrew Dobrow Link

The King of Gamer Mods, Ben Heck, has returned to his triumphant days of Atari hacking. Known in the past for this Atari portables and other gaming mods, such as this one-handed Xbox controller, Ben Heck is back with a brand new Atari portable, this time for the 2600. Running off of 6 batteries, the new Atari portable now has ...

Ever wished your home could be as organized as your computer desktop? Well, not me, my desktop is an utter mess. But those of you who like the simple organization that your desktop offers, check out this project that brought the desktop alive. The project put paper files with a desktop-like background on the wall, along with pixelated looking titles, ...

XboxFamily was reportedly sent a set of dummy Grand Theft Auto IV cases from Rockstar. The photos above and below show the three different designs that were (rumored) to be sent, plus the announcement of? a fourth one still unrevealed. Frankly, I hope these aren’t the real cases, they aren’t what I would expect from one of the most popular ...

Some of us who grew up during the golden ages of Silicon Valley have built up a sort of nostalgia based around the old rainbow Apple logo. While this version of the log was featured on the Newton, we haven’t seen it on any Apple products since the logo was officially changed in 1998. Strangely enough, that’s when Steve Jobs ...