Amp monitor stand
We blew out our amp this year and were planning on tossing the thing. I was looking at it and figured that it would probably be the perfect height for a monitor stand. The only real problem was that the thing weighed a ton. It was easy weight to get rid of though. Old electronics were a lot more serviceable than they are now. I took out five screws on the bottom and the whole thing slid out from the wooden case. It took about five minutes to remove all the knobs and the faceplate. Link. Flickr photos here.
A German designer calling himself Seppoman has built a Midibox control system into a sofa. If two people are sitting down, they can output three control values – left and right buttock weight and how far the person is leaning back. Obviously, the possibilities are pretty much endless. Previously, Seppoman built an incredibly cool rackmounted Commodore 64 SID synth. [
“A hardware engineer has managed to sucessfully connect a full sized PC keyboard to the Sony PSP handheld. It looks as if the hardware mofication has done with several different xlink cable connectors and modified to interlink with each other. Obviously, the software side of things are not complete but this is still a very interesting modification.” [
This Mini sure does drive…no pun intended. It’s a USB Flash Drive built into a Hot Wheels model of a Mini Cooper. I saw some various mods using USB drives, such as a PEZ and Lego drives. I think I remember reading something about someone who made a drive fit into a Hot Wheels car, but I don’t remember where. I saw this Mini sitting on my shelf, and figured, hey, I’m never gonna use it for anything anyways, so I might as well put it to use. 
Here’s how you can get your Mac on the Internet using your GSM cell phone (T-Mobile, etc). If you have a CDMA cell phone (e.g. Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS), see instead How To Use Your CDMA Cell Phone as a USB Modem in Mac OS X. The instructions on this page assume you’re using Bluetooth to connect your phone to your computer. 
Once we were in the air and received our username and passwords to access the Wi-Fi network on the plane, I quickly tested all the applications I could. Skype: called another Skype user, and called using Skype out to a real phone number. It worked perfectly. 