Twitter has been on the fritz for the past week, following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last Thursday that brought the site down for most of the day. Recently it has become apparent that it was the work of Russian KGB operatives targeting a Georgian blogger who has become fiercely critical of the [...]
What happens to your scrap metal when you don’t need it anymore? In most cases, it ends up in a landfill. If you’re environmentaly conscious, it ends up in a recycling facility and is reincarnated as something that someone else can use (and hopefully recycle). Other times, it turns into art. This feature at Wired [...]
While Palm’s exclusive arrangement with Sprint ends at the end of this year, people are already itching to get it off the network and onto bigger and better places, like Verizon. One owner claims to have successfully performed a relatively complex hack that allows him to use the Pre on Verizon’s network, and in a [...]
Apartment Therapy Unplugged brings to light an awesomely geeky DIY mod — turning an old Super Nintendo controller into a doorbell. At one point in its life, pressing the A button would have told Mario to jump up and land on a Goomba, but not anymore. Alas, the game itself and the system are no [...]
This really cool hack involves combining several cheap components into a real-time tracking gun.
The ingredients:
- Cheap toy gun from Walmart,
- Small game controller,
- Gyration mouse (for head tracking)
- Small LCD TV screen
Put it all together and you’ve got a pretty realistic virtual reality shooter game. Obviously this works best for first-person shooters, but I wouldn’t [...]
While trolling around Instructables for cool mods, I came across something I thought was pretty awesome that I remember from back at the beginning of the year. These guys from Mana Energy Potion (energy shots for gamers) modded their Vulcan Nerf gun into a a 500-rpm dart-emptying monster. But they ran into trouble trying to [...]
