Tag Archive for 'mods'
While we first flagged up the Inspiron Mini 9’s upgrade potential earlier this week, Dell have gone one stage further and posted the netbook’s service manual on their site. Diagrams explain how to dismantle the budget ultraportable, flagging up key components such as the SSD and Bluetooth, as well as highlighting screws and latches.
Sony’s VAIO UX is a slick little UMPC, but it’s overdue a processor upgrade. Micro PC Talk forum member Anh Nguyen couldn’t be bothered waiting for Sony to do the honours, so he cracked open his UX280P, desoldered the 1.2GHz Core Solo U1400 chip from the mainboard and replaced it with an Intel Core 2 [...]
With the ink on an extended warranty to cover Red Ring of Death incidents only just dry, it might seem crazy to take apart your XBox 360 - voiding the guarantee in the process - and decant the contents into a new casing. That’s what Lian Li are suggesting, however, with their XB01 Cooling Chassis; [...]
If you play a lot of World of Warcraft on your PC then chances are you’re not doing a lot of physical activity in the process. A few industrious WOW players created a way to hook up treadmills to the game so they could simulate the running done by their avatars in WOW.
The Fujitsu U2010 has only been available in Asia since earlier this month, but that hasn’t stopped owners modifying the 5.6-inch convertible UMPC. Although Fujitsu sell versions of the U2010 (which will be known as the U820 in the US) with a 64GB SSD, it’s an expensive option above the standard 60GB HDD; UMPC Fever [...]
Birthday candles haven’t changed a whole lot over the years. The biggest change was when the obnoxious candles that don’t blow out were created. Well now Instructables has a new slightly more hi-tech version.
It doesn’t take long for iPhone Dev team to jailbreak the iPhone 3G. It has been a mouse and cat games between Apple and the group of iPhone hackers. The iPhone Dev team has managed to jailbreak into firmware 2.0 a day before its official release and now they are showing video of jailbreaking iPhone [...]
Have you ever thought that you needed to play a really violent Simpson’s game? Well here’s an awesome vid that gives you exactly what you’ve been craving.
At first glance this looks like a Gameboy Micro clad in wood, but actually the scale is rather different. The handiwork of The Longhorn Engineer, it’s in fact a modified Nintendo-on-a-chip (NOAC) retro NES gaming console packed into a custom wooden case and given a 3.5-inch display and Li-ion batteries for some portable classic play.
Nintendo’s Wii Fit board is great, but what if you expect more from a peripheral than to be told you’re overweight and should do more yoga? Two researchers from DFKI (the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) decided to see just what else you could control by wriggling your body Michael Jackson glued to the [...]
