In case you didn’t know, there weren’t any PCs in the 60s. People in offices then went about work with typewriters and pens and all sorts of archaic artifacts. Despite this fact, it didn’t stop Jeffrey Stephenson from taking up the challenge of building a functional PC for the 60s. He even went so far [...]

Four bright orange vans decked out with enough hardware to impress the Autobots will travel from Parma, Italy all the way to China beginning this week. As an epic experiment in autonomous driving from a team of Italian engineers led by Alberto Broggi, the journey is supposed to reveal the perils faced by attempts of [...]

If you are anything like me, you have fought with a USB port on more than one occasion when your flash drive or other device just didn’t want to plug in. I end up flipping it over several times in an attempt to plug the thing in and end up wondering why the port won’t [...]

There’s certainly a lot of folks out there who have dedicated a slice of their life to getting Mac OS X running on non-Apple hardware. It’s complicated but sure gives you that endorphin rush after you complete it. Not many though are willing to invest a huge chunk of time and effort building a hackintosh. [...]

A happy and sad day for iPhone hacking today. Geohot announced that he’s successfully installed Cydia onto an iPhone 4 sent to him. The bad news? He has no plans of releasing a tool for it or anything related to it for that matter.

Retrovicio Forums member  pocket_lucho has recreated a mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet. The build uses a mini ATX motherboard ZOTAC 330, 2GB ram, Wi-fi, an 8″ VGA screen, four speakers, 4-speed gearshift, illuminated buttons and digital metal pedals. The Mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet build took nearly 7 months to complete but looks well worth the wait [...]

We’ve featured a number of different concept and production electric bikes here on Geeky Gadgets but this electric DIY mod by Jennifer Holt is fantastic. Using a 48v motor powered by a homemade battery pack made up of a 144 x 3.3v lithium ion cells.

Blake Bevin decided  to create a pair of shoes where the shoes laces would tie themselves at the press of a button, just like in Back to the Future II, and came up with this fun invention. The Self Tying Shoe Lace uses an Arduino micro controller and a pair of Nike sneakers, and Blake [...]

The guys over at Mongoose Studio have been working on a project to display video on multiple iPods, with the movie split up between 12 individual iPod screen to create a much larger screen. As you can see in the video below it looks pretty impressive, they used a total of 13 iPods, with 12 [...]

If your a fan of Shel Silverstein and his children’s books then this Giving Tree iPad decal is for you. The decal plays on the covers of the books and incorporates the Apple logo as a fruit falling to earth from a tree.

We featured a number of Lego sculptures here on Geeky Gadgets but this has to be one of the best we’ve seen. Constructed by Matt De Lanoy this Futurama Lego world is a huge 5 x 7 ft in size and taking over two years to complete.

If your a Apple iPhone 3G owner and are little more than upset with some of the features in the new iOS4 release not working as they should, there is an alternative. Android 2.2 FroYo, Google lastest version, has now been successfully installed onto an older iPhone 3G. Allowing hacker Sergio Mcfly to make calls [...]