You know how important getting a regular intake of fruit is, right? Well, if you were ever thinking of trying to charge up your iPhone using oranges (c’mon, of course you were) here’s someone else doing the experiment so you don’t have to… or at least, you’ll know how many oranges and charging paraphernalia to [...]

Hey, Greenpeace, stick this idea in your pipe and smoke it.
The older Apple notebook computers may not have been the most environmentally friendly on the planet, but some resourceful types have created a functional timepiece from their defunct iBook G4 instead of just chucking it on the scrapheap.
In fact, I wish I’d seen this before [...]

I must say I’m liking what Evil Mad Scientist has been doing recently, such as this fine creation: a coffee bean cooler.
If you tend to buy ready-brewed coffee at Starbucks, buy ready-ground beans for use at home, or (shock) drink instant coffee, you might wonder what all the fuss is about.
However, if you take the [...]

SparkFun Electronics have been at it again, this time building something that will definitely slow down your candy habit (unless you just raid the store of course).
The M&M Dispenser Maze features a classic wooden labyrinth around which you must guide an M&M without it falling off the edges.

It uses 8-bit Nintendo buttons for resetting and [...]

What happens when you try to turn the classic arcade game PONG into a real life tabletop game?
Evil Mad Scientist has done just that and come up with Tabletop Pong.

It’s a definite work in progress, but you can read the fascinating journey including photos and descriptions of the construction process.
Check out the video of it [...]

Spread the holiday cheer with this easy to install plugin (just click install and activate it if you’re running a self-hosted Wordpress). The Let It Snow Wordpress plugin developed by Aen Tan is a boon for guys running blogs from WordPress.com.

It’s definitely a cheap thrill to start new conversations with your readers. The screen [...]

Ashley Towns, the hacker who developed the Ikee worm which infected / rickrolled a number of unlocked iPhones, has got himself a job with iPhone application developer Mogeneration.
Security firm Sophos has reacted negatively to the news, suggesting that it glamorises the writing of potentially malicious code (despite the fact that this worm, in particular, wasn’t [...]

As someone who learned to play the acoustic piano from an early age, is a fan of synthesizers, and is a geek, this ticked all the right boxes — a rather bizarre creation of a voice synthesizer using an acoustic piano.
Check out the video. It’s in German but with subtitles. See if you can understand [...]

When you’re worried about losing two small Apple products — namely the 2nd generation iPod Shuffle and the Apple Remote — then this hack is for you.

The two devices have a similar shape, so were disassembled and then the iPod’s circuit board was connected up to the Apple Remote’s buttons.

If you’ve any old cassette tapes left over after building that floor lamp then you might want to try stuffing your iPod into one, just like the guys over at Contexture Design in Vancouver have.
The great thing is that each unit — a glorious mix of new and old — is likely to be unique, [...]

In memory of (the nearly dead) Internet Explorer 6 comes this nifty little piece of JavaScript that will wreak havoc with your web page, turning it into a pile of unreadable junk that even Steve Ballmer would be proud of.

The IE6IFY site proudly proclaims: “After years of observation and reverse engineering I am proud to [...]

When Apple opened up the dock connector to third party hardware developers with its latest iPhone OS 3.0, I’m not sure it had this kind of application in mind.

I love this marriage of concepts and materials — parts of an analog clock fused with original Atari 2600 video game cartridges.
Sadly, if you’re after the game itself you’ll be disappointed to hear that the innards have been removed to make way for the clock mechanism.

Awesome mod: an Acer Aspire One A150 netbook in a Super Nintendo case. Dubbed aaSNES1

Sounds trivial doesn’t it? Of course everyone loves to play guitar with a real guitar. But what when it comes to Guitar Hero? There are many Guitar Hero aces among us, but we all play on those pesky plastic guitars. Well the guys from OpenChord have modded a genuine guitar to also function in Guitar [...]

Firstly let me say that, as a Brit, the first mental image I had upon reading about “keyboard pants” wasn’t the best, but once I saw a picture it all became clear.
That still doesn’t mean I fully understand why anyone would want a QWERTY keyboard – a pink, flexible, half-functional silicone keyboard – split across [...]