Archive for August 2010

The iPad can be charged via USB using the proprietary charge/sync cable. But on older Macs, and worse, in some modern PCs, sometimes the darned thing won’t charge. It seems that the problem is that the iPad doesn’t get enough power from the USB ports of slightly older machines. By…

What would Star Wars… be like if it was a silent film? It would be much darker.

It’s the dramatic battle between Vader and Luke, made slightly more comedic by the fast forwarded action, and the fact that Vader had the gall to ask for Luke’s cooperation right after chopping

Not too long ago, I was busy eating some buttery goodness known as popcorn and got a text. It didn’t take long before all the buttery smudges on my iPhone screen were annoying to look at. If I protected my iPhone with a password, it would have been easy enough…

This computer-in-a-keyboard casemod owes at least a nod to from the Asus EeeKeyboard (or at least the Commodore 64). Bart Reardon’s MacBook Air Project is working to combine the brains of a MacBook Air with the aluminum body Apple keyboard and a Magic Trackpad.

Under the hood of this nifty…

Do you keep valuable items in your briefcase? A bunch of secret documents perhaps? Maybe you should keep them somewhere safer. Kidding. With a bit of hacking and modding, you can have a remotely-toggled electrified briefcase.…

It’s always been about Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for me. No matter what people say, I think it’s the most important film of the Star Wars saga. Even though I have to agree that Revenge of the Sith… wasn’t all that bad, it was nowhere near as good

This is what you’ve been waiting for, ever since 1983. It’s the missing lightsaber scene from the beginning of Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, and you know that you’ve been dying to see this.

This awesome long-lost scene from Return of the Jedi… was shown over the

…but it’s a hell of a lot funnier too:

Poor Zaeed. Check out the whole pic at Unreality.…

Taito, the creators of the original Space Invaders have been testing a new arcade game that involves yanking a tablecloth off a virtual table without knocking over all the stuff on the table. Weird, huh? Would you expect anything less in a Japanese arcade?

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We’ve featured a variety of SEGA Dreamcast portable mods over the years, and up until now, I thought this one from China was the best. But you’ve got to hand it to modder Techknott. His portable is super slick, and I think it’s my new favorite Dreamcast portable. (No, the…