Sometimes, all you need to do is look around the house for some clever life hacks. For example, bread tags make great cord labels. Or, you can also turn a muffin pan upside down to create cookie bowls for ice cream. Click here to see more. Continue reading to find out how to make a messenger bag out of trash bags.
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You may know Altoids as "The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong Mints", but geeks have other things in mind for the tins after they finish the mints. These cool projects show just what is possible when you think outside the box. Continue reading to see them all.
Just about everyone who traverses busy streets has seen at least a few of these road signs, now take a look at what happens when geeks get their hands on the access panel that controls what's being displayed. Click here to see all the geeky examples. Continue reading to see the carnage that one geek caused on the highway by hacking the signs.
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App developers Grant Paul, Steven Troughton-Smith and Ryan Petrich have successfully ported Siri in complete form to the Apple iPhone 3GS. One caveat: "they can't distribute the port or share how they did it. TL;DR version: It's illegal." Video after the break. Click here to see more hilarious Siri responses.
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Remember Google's Gmail Motion prank from yesterday? Well, the guys over at the ICT MxR lab have made it a reality, using Kinect. That's right, "all your favorite gestures are here: opening an email as if it were an envelope, replying by throwing a thumb back and, of course, 'licking the stamp' to send your response on its way." Video after the break.
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. Hacker / gamer Shantanu Goel has managed to get a Kinect working on the PS3. Technically speaking, "the Kinect is connected to his laptop, which is running PrimeSense's drivers for the Kinect, which are then converted into raw tracking data and reconverted into PS3-compliant data via DIYPS3Controller." Video after the break.
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Another day, another Microsoft Kinect hack. This hack basically enables the visually impaired to "better navigate through and stay informed about their environment." Video after the break.
A Kinect is attached to a helmet and connected to a backpack-mounted Dell laptop. Also connected to the laptop is an Ardunio-controlled belt and a Bluetooth headset...Finally, thanks to a little C#, the whole package allows someone to walk down a hall and receive verbal and tactile notifications of obstacles in their path.[via Engadget]
According to YouTube user "BITcrash44", he managed to hack billboard in Times Square by plugging a transmitter into an iPhone 4, playing back a video clip, and then have that footage sent to a video repeater that overrides any screen. Continue reading for the video demonstration.
Starting off small, he exhibits how the device works on various video billboards on the ground and ultimately leads to a big finale. I'm not going to spoil the ending, but will say it involves a balloon and the giant CNN billboard in the middle of Times Square![via CBSNews]
While you may have seen other Doom ports for the Ti calculators, this one is definitely the best. The crew over at omnimaga "successfully moved a beta version of nDoom over to a Texas Instruments TI-Nspire." Video after the break.
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Ok, so it's not really a hack, but more of a clever way to use the thumbnails found in the new Facebook profile design. Simply put, users are able to create one giant image using the smaller thumbnails. Click here to see a few awesome examples. Video tutorial after the break.
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