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Lenovo PC modder challenge produces articulated touchscreen table, desktop arcade, more

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Lenovo has been courting PC modders in the run-up to CES 2011 this week, and some of the results of the "What's Your Idea of Fun?" campaign are pretty striking. Taking regular Lenovo computers as their starting point, the modders variously came up with a desktop arcade cabinet, a beautiful Birdseye maple and teak gaming PC, and the bizarre MD-5 robot-themed touchscreen computer shown here. Read The Full Story

HTC HD2 gets MeeGo 1.1 install

, Dec 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

HTC's HD2 has become something of a favorite among smartphone modders; we've already seen the Windows Mobile 6.5 device swap its Microsoft OS for Android and Windows Phone 7, and now it's the turn of MeeGo 1.1. Steve Troughton-Smith spotted that, since the HD2 is relatively similar to the Nexus One in terms of core hardware, it should be possible to tweak the instructions for installing MeeGo on the Googlephone to suit the HTC. Read The Full Story

Google Nexus S rooted

, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

After less than 24 hours on sale, Google's Nexus S has been rooted. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone fell to the practiced hands of xda-community's Koush, taking a metaphorical screwdriver to the OS in the same way that we saw iFixit strip away the Samsung-made handset's hardware. Read The Full Story

GoldenEye: Source multiplayer mod for Half Life 2 ditches beta

, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

GoldenEye: Source, the fan-made conversion modification of Half Life 2, has been knocking about for years, but the team responsible for the redressed retro multiplayer has finally ditched the beta label and released the fully optimized mod. Now up to v4.1, the conversion consists of 22 maps - both the classics from GoldenEye on the N64, and new revisions - and eleven characters, together with over 50 custom music tracks. Read The Full Story

LED Christmas lights hacked into huge IM status display [Video]

, Dec 13th 2010 Discuss [2]

Christmas lights can be gaudy and distracting, or they can be a force used for good; well, as long as by "good" you mean individually-programmable and capable of showing IM status. Microsoft .NET developer Andrej Kyselica discovered that, after some tinkering, he could get a FEZ embedded controller to individually manage each LED on a string of $60 Christmas lights from Costco. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Geeks get Ubuntu working on Samsung Galaxy Tab

, Nov 19th 2010 Discuss [5]

You can always tell the geeks by the hardware and gadgets they use. Sure, your mom might get a Galaxy Tab, but will her Tab be running something as geeky as Ubuntu? I think not. If you are the sort of geek that lives to add alternative OS's to hardware it wasn't meant to run on, we have a project for you. Read The Full Story

Galaxy Tab voice call hack turns tablet back into a huge phone

, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [14]

Our review of T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy Tab went live yesterday, and while we bemoaned its lack of official voice call functionality, if you're willing to get your hands dirty in alternative ROMs then you can bypass that limitation. The xda-developers community has been working on enabling what the US Galaxy Tabs lost from their European counterparts, and - with a few limitations - has managed to activate voice calls on the T-Mobile Tab. Read The Full Story

Dual-booting Android/iOS iPad and iPhone 4 one step closer [Video]

, Nov 12th 2010 Discuss [4]

Apple's hardware is generally pretty well-admired; it's the company's attitude to software that rubs quite a few people the wrong way. Now, the prospect of dual-booting Android and iOS 4.x on the iPad, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS is another step closer, with Hexxeh managing to get the OpeniBoot boot-loader tool running on the Apple slate. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Apple TV jailbreak released with PwnageTool v4.1

, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [2]

The latest version of the iPhone Dev Team's PwnageTool, v4.1, has been released, with the new software updated to include jailbreaking of the new Apple TV.  The hack is an untethered jailbreak, taking advantage of the limera1n exploit among other things, though once you've actually got a jailbroken Apple TV there's not a huge amount you can do with it right now. Read The Full Story

Sony UX UMPC gets massive DIY upgrade: CPU, 3G, GPS, TV & more

, Oct 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sony's UX-series of UMPCs may not be in production any more, but they're still like catnip to modders.  After the beastly upgrades applied to one UX490 late last year, now here's another which has seen the stock CPU switched out and a 3G modem squeezed inside, together with GPS, a TV tuner and a USB hub. Read The Full Story

ChumbyBot bipedal robot: when widgets take over the world [Video]

, Oct 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Chumby was made for hacking, and so we probably shouldn't be too surprised to see one sprout legs and start its gradual path to world domination.  Eric Gregori of EMG Robotics has developed a bipedal walking ChumbyBot by pairing the touchscreen Chumby One with a Freescale MMA7455l controller board. That board is soon going to be commercially launched as part of the Tower Robot/Sensor board from EMG, working with the company's RobotSee and Robot Vision Toolkit to make for easy vision-based navigation and control.  It's also apparently easy to code for, using the same sort of language as BASIC. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia N8 gets 30fps 720p video hack and super-detail still compression tweak

, Oct 5th 2010 Discuss [2]

The Nokia N8's photography skills are already prompting plenty of discussion, but one modder has instead concentrated on squeezing out some extra performance rather than arguing over the standard results.  Notorious Symbian-lover hyperX has already managed to coax the N8 into shooting 720p video at 30fps rather than the default 25fps, and he's also worked some magic on the smartphone's still images. Read The Full Story
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