Hacks

Motorola Q: Hacked into an Eternal Fountain of EVDO for Laptops

The collective hive mind of Howard the Forum have hacked together a way to let you use a Motorola Q’s EVDO connection with your Laptop. The registry tweak in Windows Mobile 5 gets around Verizon’s typical Cockblockery, letting you use the EVDO connection over the phone’s Bluetooth link. Even if the Bluetooth link will bottleneck…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 20

Doorbell Privacy Device

Make is featuring a breadboard-based timer that turns off your front bell for a pre-set period of time, thereby ensuring day sleepers will get their 10 hours rest. It doesn’t look very complex—but then again I couldn’t even mod my PS2 without burning it up, so I’m useless with electronics—and seems like an excellent and…

Gadgets John Biggs Jun 29

MacBook Pro Visualization Backlighting

Using a little software tweak a MacBook user was able to get his keyboard backlighting to flicker and dim with the beats of the music from iTunes. All it requires is a visualization plug-in called iSpazz. It can be found here. Neat stuff and surely the ladies will swoon at your disco MacBook. – Travis…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 22

MacBook Gaming: Wii Style

With MacBook sensor hacks galore popping up all over the place it was only a matter of time before someone put the included MacBook motion sensor to some good use by developing a game that utilizes it. Check out Neverball, a Monkey-Ball-esque game that uses the MacBook motion sensor to control the tilt of the…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 19

RAZR Mods

The Windows XP Mobile skin we see here is a complete simulation of the XP boot-up and shut-down screens along with some sexy interface hacks that can make your sexy RAZR look like a real BSOD-ing machine. Shouldn’t the people who figure this stuff out be curing cancer or something instead? Motorola Razr V3 Clublights…

Tech News Johnb Jun 14

More Hacked Xbox 360 Firmware Expected Soon

It was only a few weeks ago that we brought you news of hackers (in the “searching for knowledge” sense) finding their way into the Xbox 360’s Samsung optical drive. Now it seems that that very same hacker is poised to release a similar firmware hack for the Hitachi optical drive for the Xbox 360.…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jun 12

Rumor: PSP Modchip Coming Soon

Rumor has it that a modchip called “Undiluted Platinum” is coming very soon for the PSP. What can it do? Boot custom firmware and load unprotected/homebrew code. That means running games from your memory stick. A hardware solution would be more sturdy than the hacks people have been using so far to get the PSP…

Gadgets Jason Chen May 26

LEGO Pinball Machine

LEGO-maniac Anders built this working pinball game out of LEGOs and pure iron will. It doesn’t just react to the ball hitting certain sensors—it even takes score and can keep a high-scorer’s list. We’re hunting up some more information this as Anders’ site is pretty aged. Functional LEGO Pinball Machine [TechEBlog]

Gadgets John Biggs May 25

Xbox 360 Modchip Closer to Reality

Last week we mentioned that the firmware of the Samsung disc drive in the Xbox 360 was hacked—allowing you to play 1:1 backups of games but not run unauthorized code—but that it required not only a degree from MIT to get it working, but also resources that only a mad scientist would have access to.…

Tech News Gizloco May 22

Cardboard SLR

Strange stuff, this is. Apparently someone has built a single lens reflex camera out of cardboard and toothpicks. The coolest thing about this is that it uses a pencil to advance the film and even has a real rangefinder. We’ll try to contact the creator to discuss how he/she made this bugger. Picture Pages [Ueba…

Gadgets Johnb May 18

Xbox 360 Cracked, In a Roundabout Way

The age old battle between hackers and copy protection continues, this time with the hackers gaining a potentially huge victory over the Xbox 360. It appears that the firmware for the Toshiba-Samsung H943 DVD drive (one of two drives available in the Xbox 360) has been, as they say, hacked. In a nutshell, once the…

Tech News Gizloco May 16

L33T SNES Console Mod

This might be a little outdated, what with the uncrackable XBox 360 out there, but it reminds us of the time we tried to hack our PS2 using the old “knife in the DVD slot” trick and broke it. This hack lets you overclock your SNES, which results in Link’s face being scattered across the…

Tech News Johnb May 3

1000 Song iTunes Phone Hack

This is a hack that will up the song-cap limit on all iTunes based phone to 1000.. All you need is a data connectivity cable for your phone and a machine running Windows. Perform a couple small steps and bam, 1000 song supported iTunes phone, easy as pie. Maybe this mod will make the ROKR…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 26

Three-Way Your MacBook

Three-way boot, you pervs. You know those Linux junkies, they will do everything in their power to get a quick fix. Believe it or not, the onmac.net Linux junkies have utilized their arch nemesis, Windows, for a greater good. Specifically, they have devised a way to chain-load Linux onto the Intelotosh MacBook with a bootloader…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 20

DIY Fan LED Switch

How esoteric! While this project might not pique your interest, it’s pretty clear that this is how folks should go about posting instructions on the internet. This document, inside a Wiki, is like a scientific report. See, this kid wanted to turn off the LEDs in his case fans without turning off the fans. Big…

Tech News Johnb Apr 12

DIY: Xbox Internal Wi-Fi Adapter

This is a nice little mod, unfortunately it is for the original Xbox. Let’s just hope BrutalByte over at iHacked finds a way to do it for the 360. He installed a Netgear Wi-Fi adapter internally in the Xbox to allow a for a wireless connection without having messy adapters adding to the tangle mess…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 11

Top iPod Hacks and Tricks

Playlist has a roundup of the top eight iPod hacks, tricks and mods. Topping the list is the ever favorite, iPod Linux. Also making an appearance in the list is the iPod mame, radio-free shuffle, scratchless screen, and even a mod to custom-build an 8GB nano. Most of these mods will void your warranty and…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 27

Windows XP Booting on an Intel Mac? Contest Organizer Believes So

XP-on-Mac contest organizer Colin Nederkoorn told Gizmodo that he believes a team of individuals headed by a person known as narf2006 has devised a way to boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac. Nederkoorn, of Houston, Texas, created a website that sought donations from visitors, where the proceeds would be awarded to the first person…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 14

Dual Sim Card Adapter

If for some reason you find yourself toting around one cellphone and two sim cards at the same time, you might want to look into purchasing a dual sim adapter like the one on the right. The Powerful Dual Card offered by Hong Kong’s mobile.brando for $27 lets you switch from one sim to the…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Mar 3

Prius Running OSX

I’d really like to see the hardware connections on this thing, but we’ll have to be happy with screenshots of a Toyota Prius running OS X and Front Row. The creator, Jermey Kusnetz, has some video up of Front Row, OS X, and even Windows appearing on the Prius’ console touchscreen. He’s using some Perl…

Tech News Johnb Feb 20

Motorola Q: Hacked into an Eternal Fountain of EVDO for Laptops

Doorbell Privacy Device

MacBook Pro Visualization Backlighting

MacBook Gaming: Wii Style

RAZR Mods

More Hacked Xbox 360 Firmware Expected Soon

Rumor: PSP Modchip Coming Soon

LEGO Pinball Machine

Xbox 360 Modchip Closer to Reality

Cardboard SLR

Xbox 360 Cracked, In a Roundabout Way

L33T SNES Console Mod

1000 Song iTunes Phone Hack

Three-Way Your MacBook

DIY Fan LED Switch

DIY: Xbox Internal Wi-Fi Adapter

Top iPod Hacks and Tricks

Windows XP Booting on an Intel Mac? Contest Organizer Believes So

Dual Sim Card Adapter

Prius Running OSX

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