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Xbox Media Monster

by John B. Carnett John B. Carnett Reinvent Your XboxCost: $35Time: 1 HourEasy | | | | |HardAlthough the sleek new Xbox 360 is all the rage with gaming geeks these days, that chunky old first-gen Xbox...

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Add a Versatile Compact Flash Boot Drive to an Inexpensive Laptop

gBook With CF Interface Installed Dave Prochnow View Photo GalleryNo doubt about it; Everex's gBook computer is a hacker's dream PC. While we weren't too fond of the company's entry into the...

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Eee PC School: Add a Keyboard Backlight For Under $15

Eee PC Backlight Installed Dave Prochnow As we showed you in our May 2008 issue, Asus's Eee PC has quickly become a favorite of hardware hackers around the web. Here, we offer the first installment of...

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Eee PC School #2: Add a Second microSD Card Reader

microSD Drive Installed Dave Prochnow Including a built-in SD card reader in the ASUS Eee PC was just one of many smart decisions that went into the lovable little portable (are you listening Apple?)....

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Eee PC School #3: EZ Desktop Mode Mod

EZ Desktop Mode Mod Deluxe Dave Prochnow This little gimmick has been in graphics design studios for years: a clever way to bring a wayward menu bar back from a dual monitor setup without plugging in...

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Eee PC School #4: Add a Super HID

HID Dave Prochnow Have you ever found yourself wishing that your Eee PC had a better trackpad, or maybe even a joystick? Well, the Atmel AVR USB key might be your answer.Packed inside a thin USB...

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Dancing a Song With the Full-Body Wiimote Music Controller Suit

Soon after the Nintendo Wiis release, hackers immediately began uncovering ways to use its unique motion-sensing controller to interface with other things—PCs, musical…

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Beef Up a Little PC

If you want a super-light laptop, you have to pay for it, and you have to use Windows. Thats been the (frustrating) conventional wisdom—at least until late last year, when the Taiwanese company Asus...

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Add a Versatile Compact Flash Boot Drive to an Inexpensive Laptop

No doubt about it; Everexs gBook computer is a hackers dream PC. While we weren't too fond of the company's entry into the ultra-portable market, the gBook sings a different…

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Eee PC School: Add a Keyboard Backlight For Under $15

series. Check back in the coming weeks for more tiny ultraportable tweaking.—Eds._ What good is that portable PC if you can't type anywhere and anytime? With its ultra-compact keyboard, even touch...

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Eee PC School #2: Add a Second microSD Card Reader

Including a built-in SD card reader in the ASUS Eee PC was just one of many smart decisions that went into the lovable little portable (are you listening Apple?). Without a large hard disk, memory...

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Eee PC School #3: EZ Desktop Mode Mod

This little gimmick has been in graphics design studios for years: a clever way to bring a wayward menu bar back from a dual monitor setup without plugging in a second monitor. Essentially, by...

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Eee PC School #4: Add a Super HID

Have you ever found yourself wishing that your Eee PC had a better trackpad, or maybe even a joystick? Well, the Atmel AVR USB key might be your answer.

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So We Put a Jet Turbine On Our ATV...

Don your Nomex firesuit and industrial-grade ear protection: It's time to soak in some nature at 60mph. PopSci staff photographer/madman John Carnett has realized an unholy…

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Musical Typewriter Turns Your Essays Into Aural Masterpieces

Yamaha and Fabian Cappello teamed up to deliver this modified typewriter, which has each key wired to play a different musical note as you type. The end result is a sentence…

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Portable, Wearable Playstation 3 Rig Pimps Projector

When most companies promote a new product, they follow a pretty standard formula. Write a press release, tape a demonstration of the device, and maybe send out some schwag.

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5 Things You Need To Know About DOTA 2 and The International 2015

ValveWith the The International 2015 (TI5) running all week until, Dota 2 is back in the spotlight. Already, the tournament’s Twitch stream has had more than 48 million views, and the tournament's...

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Smash Bros Fan Mod Project M Ceases Development

Project MSuper Smash Bros Project M Will Cease DevelopmentNo use trying to spot-dodge this newsIn 2011, die-hard fans of Super Smash Bros introduced Project M. The modification to the game undid many...

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Add a Versatile Compact Flash Boot Drive to an Inexpensive Laptop

DIY Using the Everex gBook as a base, easily swap large CF cards for multiple OS booting and quasi-SSD storage No doubt about it; Everexs gBook computer is a hackers dream PC. While we weren't too...

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Eee PC School: Add a Keyboard Backlight For Under $15

DIY Keep on typing even when the lights go out with this inexpensive mod As we showed you in our May 2008 issue, Asus's Eee PC has quickly become a favorite of hardware hackers around the web. Here,...

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