For many of us first-gen hacker types (yes, I'm that old. Shut up. ), blue boxing was our introduction to hardware hacking. It was never the illegal, rip-off aspects for me, it was proving that you could build something that exploited a venerability in a system; to trick it to do something it wasn't intended to do (the very definition of hacking).
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.24 at 16:21
We’ve had this same hack submitted by two people, pointing to two different(translated) sources(translated) today. It seems with a recent version of dos box, you can load windows 3.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.02.24 at 15:12
Phone sniffs your breath to detect diseases. . . Applied Nanodetectors Ltd (AND) of the UK prototyped a mobile phone that can detect various diseases from user's breath and exhibited it at the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference (nano tech 2009).
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.24 at 04:44
[ghostwalker] has put together instructions for running X11 on your Android device. This means you can run a full-blown Linux desktop environment on your phone.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.02.22 at 21:45
We love keeping track of new interaction technologies and this new touchscreen by Stantum looks especially promising. Engadget shot a hands-on video with it at the Mobile World Conference.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.02.19 at 21:06
A couple weeks ago, I posted a guide to installing the latest version of Android (with the "Cupcake" features) on an Android Dev Phone 1.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.19 at 06:42
We spotted this odd piece of geek couture on DVICE today. It’s a bracelet that displays incoming calls via Bluetooth and also vibrates. The intended use is kinda interesting, but we wonder what else could be done with it.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.02.17 at 20:59
[Mr. Hasselhoff] is using a disposable cell phone to trigger his fireworks. He has wired into the speaker leads for the speaker phone. When the phone rings, the current sets off a thyristor allowing for a battery pack to be discharged into a rocket fuse.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.02.17 at 13:44
Howard Gordon, of Surveyor Corporation, makers of the SRV-1 Blackfin robot platform, sent us a link to this software collaboration they did with Jeffrey Nelson, builder of the Forknife robot.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.16 at 13:57
Sometimes you need a handy mobile storage device to move files around between locations. You could use a flash drive or an external disk, but why not make use of that 16GB phone that you carry with you all the time?
iPhoneDisk is a MacFUSE based filesystem for the iPhone.
Via | Posted on 2009.02.12 at 09:23