Archive for February 2011

The Kinect has gotten a lot of love from the hacker community on the PC, but what about the PlayStation Move?

While not quite as revolutionary as Microsoft’s answer to motion gaming, the Move’s true 1:1 movement tracking can make for some fun. Well it seems that Sony has finally…

Thanks to the ZTE Peel, iPod Touch owners can easily convert their gadget into an iPhone. But if the device isn’t available in your area – or you’re just plain cheap – Lifehacker reader Kevin has a solution:

Kevin used the plastic packaging of his 3rd generation iPod Touch as…

Yet another cool costume sighted at last week’s Ohayocon, this guy’s Team Fortress 2… Heavy costume is nearly perfect.

The minigun and ammo belt are spot-on, and even the expression on the dude’s face is priceless. The only thing he really needed to do to complete the look was to

I made the unfortunate mistake of buying my first (and only) netbook PC about 2 months before the iPad came out. Once I got my iPad, the little ASUS netbook started gathering plenty of dust, and I’ve been wondering what I’m going to do with it. I think I finally…

If you are the sort that has to commute a relatively long distance each day, but you want to do that commute with a small and green bike you don’t have to pedal, the VeloMini could be just the ticket.…

The thing I missed most when I went from a point-and-shoot to my DSLR was the huge 12x zoom that my point and shoot had. Sure, I could buy a larger zoom lens for my DSLR, but those things are expensive. Heck, my point and shoot cost less than the…

The Egyptian government still has the country under a web blackout and they can’t access services we have all come to rely on like twitter and Facebook among others. If you want to know what’s going on in Egypt from the mouths of the folks who are there you can…

After Asus released some Lamborghini laptops, it’s time to make more money off the Lambo name by releasing some USB hard drives. While the enclosure looks nice enough, it’s by no means the fastest or biggest drive out there.…

I usually don’t go for Bollywood movies, or Kollywood in this case, but when I heard about this movie, called The Robot or Endhiran…, I simply had to watch it. It’s kind of hard to describe, but suffice it to say that it is the most expensive Indian film

A clever piece of advertising spotted at an Apple Store:

ObamaPacman spotted this seemingly convincing demonstration of just how light the MacBook Air is. He even caught it on video……