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News: Hack a Roomba into a Wii-controlled Pac Man
Want your boyfriend to clean house? Make it a game. This Wii remote-controlled Pac Man vacuum will transform every alpha male into a....maid!
News: Sun + Plastic Bottle = Toy Car
Here's a DIY dream. Solar-power, recycled bottles, snap'n'go toy car! Simple. How easy to transform trash into toys.
News: Cook hotdogs like a Redneck
What do Jeff Foxworthy and Nikola Tesla have in common? Not much until this insane innovation came into existance.
News: Hack a metal detector from a calculator
Our good friend Kipkay is at it again! He has earned six figures from videos like HowTo Unlock Handcuffs and HowTo Make a Stink Pen
News: Hack together a DIY cotton candy machine
This ultra clever mod of household junk makes for an ingenious variation on the carnival classic.
News: Hack a monitor to make DIY dynamic holograms
Remember the future? It was supposed to be flying cars, 3D virtual worlds and pill-form meals. And the hologram. That Star Wars relic.
News: Build a USB spy telescope for less than $40
Looking for a cheap addition to your KGB-esque arsenal of spyware? Here's a hack using a webcam and a telephoto lens to record some far out sights. Build a $40 USB spy telescope.
News: Make a water gun alarm clock
Silly and gratuitous DIY comes to mind. But let's not overthink this Howcast video.
News: Turn your monitor into a hi-voltage Kitty fence
The unrestrained joy of How-To cleverness. This subversive video shows you how to transform that old CRT monitor into a 30,000 volt fence.
News: Make a lemon battery
The lemon battery has a rich history in many elementary science classes as a great example of an electrochemical reaction.
News: Make an Eggstractor to peel boiled eggs
Rube Goldberg meets Cool Hand Luke. Arguably pointless. Arguably quite satisfying.
News: Hack a 12 volt battery
This video is revelatory. Here is the good news. If you have devices that rely on 1.5 volt button cell batteries, this tutorial from KipKay will save you $40.00.
News: Crank charge batteries
[community/members/babblin5/ Babblin5] is a tenacious tinkerer. Here he shows us HowTo get a dead battery running again. How?
News: Remotely shut down a computer with a cell phone
There is something reassuring about the calm competence of Tinkernut.
News: Make a homopolar motor
Weekend fun. Foolproof. An ingenious melange of idiocy, electrical currents, arts and crafts.
News: Bust a co-worker for pinching your Altoids
Both petty and fun, this tutorial requires only double stick tape, an Altoids tin, a Hallmark greeting card, and a primal sense of justice.
News: Mod a flashlight into an IR night vision light
Record stealthily, in the dark. This hack is simple and will turn any LED flashlight into an infrared night vision light you can use with any video camera.
News: Hack hard drives into working speakers
Old Hard Drive + MP3 player = Music This equation just doesn't make sense. If you're an iPod addict, the HD element is redundant! Well, take a second look at what constitutes a speaker and what a hard drive is made of. They are more alike than you'd think.
News: Recycle an old satellite dish into a WiFi booster
Struggling to keep up your wireless signal? If you're struggling to stream Hulu from the backyard DocZee's got an idea.
News: Run USB through phone lines
One of the many reasons Circuit City should go out of business is their sale of ridiculously expensive cables, wire and cords. The secret to the industry of Monster Cables is that it is unnecessary and ineffective. Gold-plated or otherwise, Monster's $100 cables are not intrinsically better than the cheaper versions they're stocked next to. Don't believe us?
News: Mod a Yo-Yo to Light up a Frisbee
Toy splicing is the hobby of combining to disassociated toys into a totally unique device.
News: Commit voter fraud - Ivy League style
The last two US Presidential elections were marred by reports of voter fraud. So Princeton University took it upon themselves to investigate how easy it could be to hack the election.Answer: easy.
News: DIY your own MultiTouch Screen
Ever since we got our fingers on the iPhone, we've been fascinated by multitouch. Why couldn't everything be so physically interactive?
News: Make a Jacob's Ladder with cassette tapes
I have seen wallets/billfolds made this way. Like magic. The essence of this folk design is that there's no movement up or down at all. The cassettes are simply flipping back and forth.
News: Taser dear friends with hacked camera
We almost forgot about the disposable camera. With every cell phone outfitted with a camera, who needs the emergency 7-Eleven point-n-shoot?
News: Thwart the Bluetooth hack
This week, California, like a growing portion of America is now 'handsfree'. As of July 1st, mobile phone use in cars became prohibited without the use of a headset.
News: Pop popcorn with your cell phone...NOT!
Watch this first 'tutorial'.FauxTo! Hoax! Con! May 28, 2008, this video was uploaded to YouTube illustrating the popcorn popping power of a circle of ringing mobile phones. Radiation. Amazing. Viral. Millions viewed.
News: The FBI needed this laser mod for Martin Luther King
Starting in 1961 the FBI and an army of other non-believers, wiretapped MLK. All found nothing but gossip. No one was able to nail him with any evidence of sedition.
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