Firecore's aTV Flash (black) for Apple TV 2

  aTV Flash (black) is a user-friendly software package from Firecore that supercharges your new black AppleTV 2. It is available in both Mac and Windows version. This software package is very simple to use and safe for your AppleTV. Installing aTV Flash (black) is also easy. More details on the installation process can be seen here. Very recently Firecore has launched the version 1.1.1 of aTV Flash (black) that are having

Crazy hacked Monitor looks Invisible unless you are wearing special Glasses

  Instructables member Dimovi shares a wonderful hack where you can turn your old LCD monitor into a privacy monitor!  The crazy thing with this privacy monitor is that it  looks all white to everybody except you, because you are wearing “magic” glasses! People might think you are crazy, staring at a blank white screen wearing sunglasses! But I guess that makes it even more fun! Materials required for this build are: An

Crazy optical fiber and LEDs based Step Lighting

  Fiberopticlight presents an amazing step lights created using Poly Optics Super Side Light fibre lit with LEDs at each end. Each strip of stairs consists of a single LED at each end of a 7mm Super Side Light fibre strip encased in a 10mm square polycarbonate extrusion. Entire system of strip lights is typically operated by just a single 9V power supply and the current consumption of each strip light is about

Crazy Walking Machine Project

  Have you ever heard of a walking machine made from bent wires and run by a single 1.5V AA battery wherein the motor and battery can rotate with crank? Hackolog member brought this amazing concept, where you can build your own walking machine just by using fewer components.  You can start by connecting the motor to the crank to which the wheels are fitted. Now when the wheels meet an obstruction the motor starts

Ultrafast Camera - capturing light particles moving through space

  Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have developed an imaging system that can capture visual data at a rate of 1 TFPS. With such a speed of visual data acquision, the researchers were able to create virtual super-slow-motion videos of light particles traveling and scattering through space. The technique to create the videos relies on what’s called a streak camera. The complete virtual slow-motion movies are created by stitching together each scan

Open Picus Dancing Twitter Santa

  If you want to drive the guys over at Open Picus nuts send a tweet to their dancing santa! Check out their Open Picus Dancing Twitter Santa project to see how they connected the santa with a few bits of electronics to their system. I have a feeling that this will be a fun gadget on the desk until it keeps dancing non stop for a few hours… “I

Hacked Typewriter with Magical Effects

  Makezine in its blog reported that Yoonjo Choi has modernized her old typewriter by adding force sensors and monitor connectivity, so that her old photographs can now be flipped quickly through projection. The way in which her old photo displays on the monitor possesses a magical effect. The project draws attention to the photos in a way that a digital slideshow or picture frame cannot. The most amazing feature is that you can only see the photo