[Fridgehead] modified his Simon Says game to include a dirty word for each lighted button . This is a real good way to teach kids to swear and to get child protective services to pay you a visit all at the same time. The hardware has been modified to use an Arduino in tandem …

Tobacco and E coli can wreak havoc on your body causing serious damage if not death. Some researchers from the University of California at Berkley have found a way to take these potentially dangerous organisms and make them do our bidding. By genetically engineering a virus they have shown that the…

OK, friend sent me a link to this tattoo, and I started searching. Wow, didn’t realize the wave of geek tats out there. So, I decided to start a collection here of all the cool …

You have to be kidding me?? Right? No, seriously. Right?

Some idiot attempted to scam people at a Hackers Meet- up, AKA Defcon. Mind-boggling.

(P.S. No, this is NOT a pic of me. But it is a pic of my new spiffy undies.)
OK, they rock. They fall inline with my spiffy weird comment undies,  like “Weapon of Mass Seduction” …

OK, I am a geek just as much as the next, and I love getting new technology. But, I also have some common sense about what I purchase, in that, it has to serve a …

The table for electronic dreams is an interactive table that is sensitive to electric activity.  Though it looks similar to the table built by EMSL , this one lights up based on electromagnetic fields. You can get the schematics and such from the instructable, but there is also a video located at …

How would you like to have someone walk by a Mac that no one is touching… and have it scare the beejeebuz out of them? It’s quite an easy thing to turn your Mac into a seemingly haunted machine, and I’m going to show you how. Thanks to Wirelesspacket for this tip.

[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It’s a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it in 1989 and recently decided to see if it would actually work . It took some digging to find a proper D25 adapter and even then the original serial…

[John] sent us this nice little project. He shows us how to create a motion activated alarm that plays the Mario Brothers theme and flashes some lights . He’s using an ATTiny13a for the brains, and a cool mario mushroom candy tin for the body. You can see it in action after…

[Will] submitted his ski goggle mod. He has mounted an Oregon Scientific ATC3K digicam in his goggles . This should make recording ski trips a lot easier. Most of the electronics fit just fine in the mask, though he did need to use an IDE cable to extend parts of it to …

No one will ever accuse us of being Windows fanboys; we’re certainly fans of netbooks though (or anything cheap enough that we don’t care if we accidentally burn a hole through it). We’ve heard from quite a few friends that Windows 7 is actually an excellent operating system to run …