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Broken iPhone 3g Screen? Check Out This DIY Repair

diy iphone screen repair make

Did you just break the screen of you beloved iPhone? Annoyed at paying $200 to have Apple replace the screen? Well, Morten Skogly will give you the means to repair your screen yourself, DIY style.

One of the most common mishaps of having an iPhone is that sometimes they fall…

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July 30th, 2010 by: Range

LCD Bending: Art From Cracked Screens

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So I always thought that once you cracked an LCD screen, it was pretty much useless. Not so says this guy, who used a dead LCD screen to create interactive art.…

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May 27th, 2010 by: Technabob

Tired of Telling People Why You’Re Wearing a Cast? Get a Casttoo!

Casttoo

One time I was at one of my cousin’s birthday parties at the park in our town. We were specifically told not to go on what had to be the world’s highest monkey bars. The geodesic dome structure was a good 10 feet off the ground not counting the hole…

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March 10th, 2010 by: Shane McGlaun

Crazy Calculator Constantly Crashes

Takumi Crash Calculator

I can’t decide what I like best about this “unique” calculator from Japan. I’m torn between the keyboard that’s arranged into a completely non-standard configuration that’s sure to trip up even the speediest touch-typists, or the calculator’s oh-so-special random crash mode.

The Takumi CRASH Calculator apparently is designed to crash…

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December 5th, 2008 by: Technabob

Dead iPod Gets Second Life as a Mouse

iPod Mouse by stefferroo

Got a broken old iPod lying around? Besides dropping it in the dumpster, what else can you do with it? Well if you’re like this resourceful modder, you turn it into a mouse.

After stefferroo’s brother dropped his iPod under his car and then proceeded to run it over, it…

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July 7th, 2008 by: Technabob

A Quick Fix for the Xbox 360 Red Rings of Doom

Some crafty Xbox 360 owner in Brazil has come up with the Occam’s Razor approach to fixing the console’s “red rings of doom” failure.

When in doubt, the simplest solution is usually the right one… simply smack the crap out of your hardware. Perhaps Microsoft will begin recommending this to…

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November 28th, 2006 by: Technabob

The Flying Wii Controller

There are all kinds of stories starting to surface on the web about how the Wii-mote is flying out of people’s hands and breaking various things. Apparently the wrist strap isn’t really designed for significant stress. Well someone caught the “flying Wii-mote” on video…

I just cringed when I heard…

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November 24th, 2006 by: Technabob

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