Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your PS3’s hard drive to store your games? Capcom recently claimed that by loading a chunk of data from Devil May Cry 4, they managed to significantly decrease load times, so it could prove very benificial. Well a group of hackers have managed to load retail games on their PS3.
I love my Nintendo DS, but I was just thinking to myself the other day how it could be so much better. I need some old-school Quake II action. Alright, that’s a complete lie, but now that I think of it, it would be cool (provided it could actually run). Apparently a group of hackers have managed to make it happen.
Those of you who have already opted not to buy a new MacBook Air, but were more interested in the $99 SuperDrive that you could get for the MacBook air had better look the other way. It turns out Apple has somehow made it so that the USB connected/powered SuperDrive is only useable with the MacBook Air and that’s it.
Brett Dawson is heavy-handed with his game controllers. However, since he’s a drummer and his game of choice is Rock Band, we can excuse him, especially when he solves the issue with a professional drum kit converted into a controller. Brett painstakingly transferred the piezoelectric cells that pick up the drum vibrations from Harmonix’ own more toy-like setup to his pro kit, added a wired-up kick-pedal and finally a screen (protected by a sheet of Lexan).
Once again I’m ashamed of my lack of Dremel skills. The product of a feverish desire to take the Sega Dreamcast out on the move, this mod is a custom vacuum casing containing not only the guts of the console but a set of two 7.2V 3Ah R/C car batteries. Rather intimidatingly, the game CD simply clips onto the spindle at the back with no door or cover to protect your soft, delicate fingers.
Back in the olden days, 3D head-tracking required a massive helmet that made you look like a classic Cylon warrior with a severe case of water-retention. Now, Carnegie Mellon University’s Johnny Chung Lee can show you how to hack up your own system using a Nintendo Wii.
So check out this safe that stores your valuable stuff under fingerprint scanner (not quite as catchy as lock and key). It’s apparently so secure that its endorsed by the NRA for use with firearms.
Folks, the Hi-Def war is barely getting started. The official website of the Blu-ray Disc Association was breached in more than once today. The intruder/s didn’t put any naked goodies there but have the web content redirected to the main competitor side… “HD DVD, the look and sound of perfect”. If that was the ‘red’ effort to get more even on discouraging sale figures, they were probably going the wrong way.
So basically this is a simple interface hack that allows your 5 or 5.5G iPod to look a lot more like an iPod Touch saving you $400. Sadly it won’t hack the screen into being a touch screen, but it’s better than the boring UI you’d normally be stuck with.
The first is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which I assume is somewhere near Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee. The second was the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of the A-Bomb testing and development.
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