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Hold on to your Zapper, because we’re about to blow some minds — this Nintendo Entertainment System has been outfitted with a USB port, and its Tetris cartridge transformed into an 8GB USB flash drive. Not only that, there are simple step-by-step instructions to craft your own online, so you too can slot, socket, mount and feel blissfully anachronistic all the same time. Speaking of time — it looks like we’ve finally got a sufficiently retro alternative to your Iomega ZIP drive.

NES becomes world’s least efficient flash drive (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 30, 2010 by CyberNet.

Windows only
If you are a Windows Media Center user the chances are pretty good that you’ve already heard of My Channel Logos. With this beautiful addition to Media Center you’ll see logos for each of the channels when viewing the television guide. It’s one of the most popular add-ons for Windows Media Center, and the developer has done a great job of keeping it up-to-date.

It gets better though. The developer of My Channel Logos also has a second tool that he whipped up, but will probably be of interest to a much smaller subset of people. TunerSalad is a one-click solution for doubling the number of allowed tuners (analog cable, CableCARD, ATSC, NTSC, ClearQAM, DVB-T) from 4 to 8.

I’m guessing there are only a handful of people out there that actually need support for more than 4 tuners. At this point a lot more of you are probably streaming or downloading shows rather than recording them directly from a cable/satellite/antenna source. Well, I guess you have the option to bump it up should you need to go that route.

TunerSalad Homepage (Windows 7 only; Freeware)

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Those who are familiar with Android Honeycomb might have already come across its music player’s cloud syncing feature, though previous attempts to port said app to phones hadn’t been successful. Whatever it was that kept crashing the app back then, it seems to have fixed itself — after xda-developers member WhiteWidows slapped the leaked app onto his rooted EVO 4G, the phone started to automagically sync his tunes to his Google account. The modder then swapped in an empty SD card, but he was still able to stream music straight from the cloud after checking the “Stream music” option in the app. Pretty neat, eh? That said, we do wonder if Google will be able to handle the exabytes worth of high-quality Justin Bieber and Spice Girl tracks.

Android Honeycomb’s music app extracted, brings cloud sync and streaming to phones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola’s got a fine smartphone in the Atrix 4G, but a mildly unsatisfactory pair of modular docks. Good thing, then, that you can gain the most intriguing functionality they add without buying one! Fenny of xda-developers reportedly figured out a way to modify the phone’s APK files to activate Webtop mode over a standard HDMI cable — with no dock needed as a go-between — allowing you to experience the Atrix’s PC-like functionality when connected to any HDMI-ready computer monitor or TV. Of course, you’ll need a rooted and deodexed phone to give it a try, but we hear those aren’t monumentally difficult to come by.

While Fenny’s hack could potentially make the desktop dock obsolete — assuming you’ve got a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard handy — Motorola’s LapDock is still something else. It’s razor-thin, it doesn’t require a separate monitor, and it charges your phone. So, before you write it off entirely, you might at least want to indulge your morbid curiosity about what’s inside, and thus there’s a complete teardown video after the break to show you what the guts look like. Enjoy!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Continue reading Motorola Atrix docks literally and figuratively torn apart, hack enables Webtop over HDMI port

Motorola Atrix docks literally and figuratively torn apart, hack enables Webtop over HDMI port originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve been whittling our likeness into bars of soap for decades, but lucky for us someone’s come up with a far easier way to render our flawless good looks in miniature. Following in a long line of inventive Kinect hacks, the folks at Interactive Fabrication have produced a program called Fabricate Yourself that enlists the machine to capture images of users and convert them into 3D printable files. The hack, which was presented at Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference in January, results in tiny 3D models that resemble Han Solo trapped in carbonite and sport jigsaw edges that can be used to make a grid of small, but accurate renderings. Fabricate Yourself is still in its infancy, and the resulting models are relatively short on detail, but we’re no less excited by the possibilities — just think of all the things we could monogram in the time it takes to produce one soapy statuette. Video after the jump.

Continue reading Fabricate Yourself Kinect hack turns you into a 3D puzzle piece

Fabricate Yourself Kinect hack turns you into a 3D puzzle piece originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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