Kindle Fire Booted With CyanogenMod 7
JackpotClavin over on the XDA Developers forum has posted a few images that show a new Amazon Kindle Fire booted using CyanogenMod 7. Amazon’s Kindle device was rooted earlier this month and only a few weeks later has received the CyanogenMod 7 treatment. Even in these early stages of development WiFi functionality is already operational on [...]
Monitor Polarizing Film Privacy Mod, Keeps Your Screen Contents Secret (video)
If you wear glasses or would simply like to keep your monitor contents private. A new modification has been demonstrated by Instructables modder Dimovi, that shows you how to remove the polarising film on your monitor. Then transform a pair of glasses using the monitor film to allow you to see it again when you [...]
Skyrim, WoW Head Tracking Mod Created For Sony 3D Personal Viewer (video)
Do you enjoy playing Skyrim or World of Warcraft and own a Sony HMZ-T1 Virtual Reality Headset? If you do then you might be interested in this great little mod that has been put together using a TrackIR 5 head tracking system. Allowing you to immerse yourself into the world of Skyrim or WoW in [...]
Samsung Series 7 Slate Hacked To Run OS X Lion (video)
If you have a Samsung Series 7 Slate tablet gathering dust in your home or office, or you would simply prefer to try a slightly different OS on it rather than the intended Windows 7. You might be interested to know that a developer has now been able to install and run OS X Lion [...]
Apple’s Siri Used To Control Your House Temperature (Video)
We recently head that Apple’s voice activated virtual assistant, Siri, had been cracked and was capable of running on virtually any device, which include Google’s Android devices. Now developer and iPhone hacker @plamoni has been working to get Siri to work with other connected devices, and has created a proxy server which allows him to [...]
uWave Microwave Plays YouTube Videos Whilst Cooking Your Food (Video)
Are you one of those people who stands there watching the timer on the microwave when you are cooking something, what about watching a YouTube video instead? A group of students who were competing in the PennApps Data Hackathon have created a Microwave which will play a YouTube video that is the same length as [...]
Lego Street View Car 2 (Video)
Some of our readers will remember the Lego Street View car that we featured on the site back it June, it was built by Mark Crosbie,and now Mark has built another version, the Lego Street View Car 2. The new Lego Street View car now uses an iPhone with iOS 5, and Mark says he [...]
Kinect BeatWheel Mod Provides Innovative Way To Control Music (video)
We have featured many amazing Microsoft Kinect motion sensor modifications and hacks here on Geeky Gadgets over the past 12 months since its launch. But this Kinect BeatWheel adds an innovative way to create music using the Kinect device and moving your arms to control the sounds. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.
Team Xron Launches Custom Android ROM For HP Touchpad (video)
Team Xron has unveiled their own new remix of the CyanogenMod software providing the Android OS with a different look and feel on HP’s TouchPad device. The new custom Android ROM has refreshed the icons and applications contained within the CyanogenMod to reflect the Android Honeycomb ones a little more closely, together with new themes and wallpapers. You can install Team Xron’s ROM the [...]
Project Xperience, Awesome Plexiglass PC Case Mod
We have featured a number of different PC case mods here t Geeky Gadgets over the years, but I think the latest case mod is one of the coolest we have seen so far, the Project Xperience which was created by Florian from Hering Home Projects. The case was built from plexiglass and it features [...]
Tweephone, The Rotary Phone Twitter Client (Video)
The Tweephone was created by two Ukranian technology companies UP digital Bureau and Unteleported tech agency, who have said that the Tweephone is the first analog Twitter client, and it was made using an old telephone and Arduino. The Tweephone lets you type your tweets using the rotary dial on the phone, and obviously it [...]
Google Nexus S Gets Android Ice Cream Sandwich Port
We heard recently that the Google Nexus S had the latest version of Google’s mobile OS ported to it, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and now the guys over at the XDA Developers have released the port for the Google Nexus S. According to the XDA developers there are still a few bugs which they are [...]
