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This guy has gone through the painstaking process of cramming his shmancy Motorola SLVR mobile phone into the case of an old Nintendo NES controller.

While the end result is pretty fugly from the phone side of things, it looks pretty convincing from the outside.
Normally, I’d say the strangest…

Do you long for the days of the simple, elegantly designed gamepad controllers from Nintendo’s classic gaming systems?

Perfect for playing emulated games the way they were meant to be played, you can buy custom-modded versions of the 8-bit NES and 16-bit SNES joypads, ready to use with your PC…

The guys over at RedPost come right out and say it. They want you to hack their new digital picture frame and do whatever you want with it.

For starters, the RedPost/Kit is a gorgeous digital picture frame with a large 19-inch Hannspree LCD screen. A mini computer inside runs…

Using a couple keys from a spare keyboard, this guy made up his own custom USB memory stick that looks like a computer key.

Modder Alex over on Hacker Zen shows you step-by-step how to make your own using an old keyboard, a flash drive, an Xacto knife, a file…

This cool hack takes videos from YouTube, converts each frame to ASCII text, then plays them back in all their alphanumeric glory.

Warren Harding (Linux geek, not the 29th President) put together a script which uses the text-based Lynx web browser along with Mplayer to to render the video.
Unless…

I came across this cool video on YouTube that shows off some pretty cool interaction with Nintendo’s Wii-mote controller.

The video shows off a nifty typographic animation designed by Erik Loyer which lets the user move the Wii-mote to influence the rendering of the text. As the controller moves, the…

This has gotta be the best hack I’ve seen in a while…

Scott Walker’s DigitalBox Newspaper Machine automatically displays the day’s latest news on an LCD screen that’s installed in the front of an old newspaper vending machine.
He put together the system using a Mac Mini and a 17-inch…

An enterprising hacker over in Japan has put together this mashup between the old school Nintendo Power Glove and a modern day Wii-mote controller.

While the on-screen motion sensing is pretty much standard functionality, the modder did add some finger activated switches to replace the A and B buttons. I…

So what do you do when you crack your iPod screen? This industrious hacker has decided to turn his broken eggs into an omelet by turning his fractured iPod into a tiny little laptop.

Owen McGarry created his iTop mini laptop by cutting his old iPod in half, keeping only…

A console modder known as sir crx has fabricated a mashup between an Xbox 360 controller and a Wii-mote, allowing the Wii control to operate the Xbox 360.
From what I can tell, he modified the 360 controller to accept Bluetooth commands, then uses it as a proxy for connecting…