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Looks like our favorite god of mods is at it again. This time, Ben Heck has really outdone himself with this amazing feat of engineering — cramming an entire Playstation 3 into a laptop.
The portable PS3 features a slick, glossy black case, and a nice big 17-inch LCD screen running at 720p resolution…
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April 10th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | video games
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While most of you are tuned in to the Superbowl, a little bird whispered in my ear to let me know about the latest portable console creation by modder extraordinaire Ben Heck. I give you the Xbox 360 Elite Laptop.
The portable Xbox 360 features a Halo 3 theme, and is based on the Elite’s internals…
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February 3rd, 2008
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author: technabob
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Console Mod Man Ben Heck is at it again. Now he’s taken the mammoth controller from an original Xbox, gutted it, and stuffed it with the contents of an Xbox 360 wireless controller…
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September 18th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | retro | video games
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The master of console mods, Benjamin Heckendorn (aka “Ben Heck”) is at it again. This time he’s created a portable that combines an NES system and a Atari 2600 console, and crammed them together into one compact package.
Like a Frankenstein’s monster, the NESTari portable can play cartridges from either Atari’s or Nintendo’s classic 8-bit systems…
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August 22nd, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech | retro | video games
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The world’s most prolific console modder, Ben Heck, has a new trick up his sleeve. This time, he’s partnered up with a company called Gameport to design a portable emulation console for mass-production…
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May 27th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | hacks-mods | mobile tech | video games
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Hot on the heels of Ben Heck’s last mod, the PS360 hybrid joystick, he’s at it again. This time he’s cranked out another Xbox 360 laptop, which improves on the original one he did a few months back.
This time out, Ben has implanted the brains of the 360 in a black laptop case with green accents, versus the white case of the original…
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April 17th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | strange and wonderful | video games
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Console modder extraordinaire Ben Heck is at it again. This time, he’s carefully taken the guts of the Playstation 3’s SIXAXIS controller and sandwiched them inside of an Xbox 360’s wireless controller.
There’s something that’s oh-so-wrong but oh-so-right about the strange bedfellows coming together to form a single mutant controller…
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April 14th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech | video games
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My favorite console mod-god, Ben Heck is at it again. This time, he’s helped Engadget take Nintendo’s Wii gaming console and turned it into a laptop.
The portable features a 7-inch widescreen LCD monitor, and even has a built-in “sensor bar” replacement at the top of the screen…
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January 19th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
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