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Wow, Flixwagon did what seemed impossible stream live video from an iPhone! Ken writes – We’re happy to announce that our development team at the Flixwagon lab has successfully streamed the first-ever live high-quality video from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid […]
Here’s a step-by-step description of how to dismantle and reassemble an Averatec 6200 laptop. Although this will definitely not make you friends with the folks at tech support, we think it’s just cool that these types of activities are documented so well. Also, the guts of this thing are pretty impressive when compared to most […]
Although this is a pretty old hack, we still like it because of its simplicity. This maker decided to put IKEA furniture to good use and build a PC mod out of a glass-top coffee table. Also check out the chair with a console embedded inside at the link below. make your own ikea video […]
If you’ve read any of the scary articles or seen segments on TV news magazines about ID theft and data piracy, you know that, somewhere in some heavy-metal-polluted shanty town on the south China coast, someone might be scanning a hard drive you threw out years ago, looking for marketable data before they boil out […]
Nuclear Elephant:’s super iPhone wipe to protect your data when you trade up to the next iPhone :) Since my posts regarding the iPhone restore mode being insufficient for wiping data (and Apple’s own refurbishing process also being insufficient), many have emailed me asking for instructions on how to properly wipe personal data off of […]
This detailed how-to shows you how to add a floppy drive to a Nintendo Game Boy in order to read endless ROM files for all of the games. Although putting in this much work seems pointless now that you can run a Gameboy and NES emulator on your iPhone, we give mad props to the […]
We saw this project recently displayed at the “Evening at Maker Faire” event at the Saatchi Gallery in NYC, but here’s a link on the production of this spinning 3D screen that can display both static and video imagery in 8 bit clarity. Really nice project, and lots of great info at the link below. […]
