If you know someone who doesn’t respect electricity have them watch the above video from Fast MHz. The best part of the video is around the 21 second mark when a Dell power supply is zapped with 16kj of electricity. It looks like the power supply may have permanent damage from the experiment! The subwoofer shown at the 56 second mark has a remarkably long throw, must be a
Ever wonder what is in one of those heating pads? Well you’re in luck, I have one here that stopped working. Of course I didn’t chuck it in the garbage, I took it apart and see what made it tick. Overall it is exactly what I expected, a few thermal cut out devices, one had obviously over heated and opened the circuit. It must have been hot for awhile before
Fast MHz has unleashed some serious energy against a beer bottle. The results are dangerously interesting. Melting beer bottles isn’t anything new around here though, remember when Bill Beaty melted one in a microwave?
Thanks to EFO for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Black Wireless Handheld Keyboard and Touchpad Mouse to the winner. They saw the article that we had done earlier today about their product and wanted to provide one to a Hacked Gadgets reader. Nice thing we have the perfect mechanism for selecting that reader, our weekly contest! The remote comes with a wireless USB dongle that
Thanks to the book publisher for sending us a copy of Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction for review. It brings back memories of high school hijinx. This book by John Austin is packed with over 200 pages of fun weapon build guides. It is actually meant for office warriors but I am sure a home office will work just as well. 🙂 In the first section of a project
Where was this product about 4 years ago when I was running a home theater PC? I was using a wireless keyboard that got the job done. Only problem is the range was not great since it was meant for desktop computing, the keyboard was full size and has a stand alone wireless mouse. I found it overkill since I was never typing anything more than a few words
Did you ever want to watch a movie in the back yard but didn’t because hauling out the projection screen would be too much trouble? Well with this Mobile Movie Theater Robot that wouldn’t be a problem. Just drive the rig to where you need it and start the movie. The system has a built in drive system, 110V AC power, projector, DVD player, speaker system. The only thing
