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Hard drive wallet stores your money

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 8:29am

This wallet, which is comprised of two hard drive platters riveted together, is not the type of wallet you'd want to carry around in your back pocket, for obvious reasons. But if you carry around a bag and keep your...

Bed-inflating alarm clock makes it literally impossible to stay in bed

Kevin Hall

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 7:34am

Need help waking up? Jeff Saltzman's "Princess and the Pea Alarm Clock" will give you more help than you've ever wanted — it'll literally have you rolling right out of bed. The "pea" is actually an inflatable bag that rests...

NES controller iPhone dock could be so much more

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 8:18am

For $40, you can ditch your boring old iPhone dock and pick up an old NES controller modified to work as an iPhone dock. It's impressive enough, sure, but man, do I want someone to take one of these mods...

'Chumby Book' turns the Internet into a hardcover

Kevin Hall

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 4:02pm

Our very own Charlie "Can I borrow your hard drive" White called the Chumby One the "world's best connected alarm clock and a lot more" after spending some time with it. With over 1,000 apps, it does a lot more...

Crazy person crams a MacBook pro into a router

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 12:29pm

Do you like the guts of your MacBook, but not the form factor? Laptops just too darned convenient for you? Well, you could always take matters into your own hands and cram the guts into a couple of hollowed-out routers...

Attaching a SLR lens to your iPhone probably not worth it

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 7:32am

ILM Research Engineer Bhautik Joshi wanted to juice up his iPhone's camera. So, of course, he took it apart, put in a bunch of stuff from a DVD player in order to get it to accept the images from a...

NES cartridge iPhone dock leaves a bit to be desired

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 8:04am

Look, I love hacking old NES gear into new accessories as much as the next guy, but if you're going to do it, do it right. Basically, here's the line for me: if it looks like something I could make...

The desk with a computer built right in

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 6:25am

Why have both a computer and a desk when you can combine both items into one convenient package? That's the idea behind this custom mod, which built a computer right into a desk. Of course, this makes upgrading either the...

LadyBugBot, the creepy-crawly robotic fridge magnet

Kevin Hall

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 11:13am

For Let's Make Robot's robo-wiz "Isotope," anything he sees has the potential to be a 'bot. Example: pondering a simple ladybug magnet on his refrigerator, he decided it'd be better as a larger, motorized magnetic crawler exploring the surface...

Dell Mini 9 hacked to become a touchscreen, motion-sensitive tablet

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 11:15am

In the above video, an enterprising modder shows off their amazing handiwork: a Dell Mini 9 hacked into a tablet with a touchscreen and motion sensitive capabilities. Think of it as a big iPhone running Windows. If you want one,...

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diy stories

Hard drive wallet stores your money

Bed-inflating alarm clock makes it literally impossible to stay in bed

NES controller iPhone dock could be so much more

'Chumby Book' turns the Internet into a hardcover

Crazy person crams a MacBook pro into a router

Attaching a SLR lens to your iPhone probably not worth it

NES cartridge iPhone dock leaves a bit to be desired

The desk with a computer built right in

LadyBugBot, the creepy-crawly robotic fridge magnet

Dell Mini 9 hacked to become a touchscreen, motion-sensitive tablet

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