Hasta La Gadget!

The DIY-tacular folks over at Instructables have all sorts of crafty shenanigans that you can get yourself into should you be stuck home with the kids on a rainy afternoon, unemployed, or a just some kind of nut who likes to keep their hands busy. The whole spectrum. And they’re gonna make the most out of this last unofficial weekend of summer.

They have step-by-step instructions on how to prepare an adorable (functioning!) little mini-BBQ out of nothing more than an Altoids tin, pair of computer fan guards, and assorted toolbox crumbs. It is fueled by a standard-sized briquette and–the author claims–is capable “of cooking a full-size hot dog (cut down to size) or smaller hamburger
patties with ease.”

So while all those suckers are out there fighting with Hurricane Earl for their burgers, you can sit by your open window with your adorable little mini Altoids grill and pass judgment on your culinary inferiors. And isn’t that what summer is all about?

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Despite a temporary victory stopping PS Jailbreak sales in Australia, Sony’s PS3 headaches are far from over. With PS Jailbreak’s code in the wild, lawsuits may be too little too late.

PSGroove claims to be an open source PS Jailbreak. Users download the code and install it on an AT90USBkey or Teensy++ USB development board to get the modchip up and running.

While the PSGroove is not as easy as the PS Jailbreak for the average gamer, but an entrepreneurial hacker can easy sell pre-assembled PSGroove kits to the average Joe PS3.

A USB drive, PS Jailbreak lets you run unsigned software, including legitimate backups, on the PS3. You can run the backups from the internal hard disk drive, or use PS Jailbreak to backup the games to external storage devices. Once saved, you can run the games from the external drive as well. Despite the lawsuit in Australia, PS Jailbreak is already available in Canada, US, and Europe.

With this code, you don’t even need the original game disc anymore to play. Imagine emulators to the PS3. The possibilities are endless. What’s next, Sony?

via PS3Hax

If you’re anything like me, you have a vehement rage towards iPods. Of course, some people will tell you “you should leave iPods alone, there’s more important things to be doing with your time than hating inanimate objects.” But these people are likely iPods dressed as humans trying to fool you into wavering from the cause. Don’t fall for it! You just scream at them “I’m too smart to fall for your dirty tricks, you iPod wearing a human suit!” And then run out of the room.

Thankfully, we live in an age where no person is forced to suffer their boiling hatred for a piece of hardware in solitude. The Internet can connect you with others who have been wronged by iPods. You can even find those who have gone all Hostel with their revenge on the portable digital device menace. Thankfully, these warrior poets decided to record their retribution and share the results with the world.

You’ll notice we didn’t choose any iPhone torture videos (and there are plenty of them) in this post. That’s because we like the iPhone. They and their smart phone ilk are going to make the very idea of a portable digital player completely outmoded. iPod, meet the true death!

But until that day of complete iPod obsolescence, they will still be among us. And they will have to pay.

Things get medieval after the jump.

Recently Nike — a shoe company that seems to enjoy a side dish of tech from time to time — challenged 78 artists to “hack” its shoes and come up with something decidedly different than your typical Air Force Ones. Now, a lot of the projects were more art and less tech, but that can’t be said for entrant Nick Marsh’s contribution to the experiment. The designer fused the internals of a Wii Balance Board with a pair of Air Maxes to create a gaming experience that may not be nuanced, but certainly seems capable of making you break a sweat. According to Nick, games are played exactly as they would have been previously, but since you can’t step of the board, you’re required to lift your foot or sit down when you need to back off on the pressure. Nick finished the project in April, but it sounds like a slightly more polished version could be in the offing. Check out a quick video of the shoes in action after the break, and hit the source for a slew of pics.

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The A3-21 Plasma Rifle is quite the little devastator in Fallout 3 and it doesn’t look half bad in the so-called real world either. Lovingly pieced together by one Ryan Palser, this homebrewed replica (the lower of the two in the image above) took five months to complete and involved the enrollment of his wife’s painting skills for the weathering job. The final result is enough to convince us that Fallout would be well served by a movie adaptation, if only so we can see more of these retro-futuristic rifles get their shot at corporeality. You can scope out one more image showing off the lights inside the rifle after the break, but only if you promise to hit up Ryan’s Flickr account for the full set.

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