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Posts tagged “hacks”

Space Invaders Bring Intergalactic Warfare to Your Mailbox

Space Invaders seem to have hit us with their intergalactic evil cuteness from all angles; choppin' boards, flexible keyboards, and lovely wall decals. Mailboxes, it seems, doesn't seem to be an excep...

How to Hide Thermostats and Door Buzzers

Now this is brilliant. How many of you are living in rentals where your landlord decided to ruin a perfectly good wall with a thermostat smack dab in the middle of it? Our thermostat and door buzzer,...

The Simplest & Efficient iPhone Stand We've Seen

If you are looking for a simple and efficient way of having your iPhone/iPod stand in front of you without spending any money, look no further, because this hack is just pure genius. ...

Tech Chest: PC Hack That's Hidden In Plain Sight

Rob Higardea had an old Via Epia motherboard hanging around the house that needed a purpose. Combining his love for odd cases and enclosures, Rob's travels led him to the most unusual of places&mda...

Hot or Not?: Sound Egg Chair

We've never met a person that hasn't had some sort of love for the Ovalia Egg Chair (it's a classic!), but it seems nowadays; anyone and everyone is trying to expand upon the original by adding soun...

Convert Box-Like Expedit Into Entertainment Center

When you move or renovate your home theater area, you'll most probably want to get rid of a dated entertainment center. The trouble is that there are quite a few on the market and the newer low-slung ...

Hacking Ikea Furniture to Make An Ergonomic Desk

It's one thing if you buy an ergonomic desk. It's another think to hack existing IKEA furniture to make an ergonomic desk. Joel and Mandy transformed a few IKEA parts into an awesome ergonomic one, wh...

Zhu Zhu Hamsters on Kids and Hackers Wish Lists this Holiday Season?

Have you heard of the Zhu Zhu Hamster yet? It's supposed to be the Furby/Tickle-Me-Elmo/Tamagotchi of this holiday season and according to some reports it's already sold out and sellers are jacking u...

The Framed Entertainment Center

Here's an interesting take on "framing" your entertainment center posted over at IKEA Hacker. A submission from Tien showcases a DIY project utilizing 4 Lack long shelves, 2 Lack side tables and some ...

N900 Rolodex Machine

One part new tech combined with another part old school and you've got the N900 Rolodex machine that takes advantage of the Bluetooth capabilities of the Nokia device to track exactly which contact ...

Ikea Besta Hacked Into Floating Media Center

Why is it that we want our home-sweet-cozy-home to feel like a chic boutique hotel room? We don't have any clue 'Why' but we sure know how to make it happen. Try switching out your media center shelvi...

DIY iPhone Water Protection from your Recycling

This low-cost rain protection for your iPhone-when-mounted-on-a-bike isn't fancy but it does the job. While it's not sealed, rain doesn't generally come from the ground so it'll do a fine job at kee...

Using a Shelf as a Floating Entertainment Unit

When choosing the entertainment unit for your HDTV, it's not always good to use something very large and imposing. Most of the time, something simple and elegant will do the job nicely. That's why we ...

How To... Turn an Apple Cube into a Terrarium

We've seen a few creative ways to repurpose Apple's G4 Cube into aquariums, tissue boxes, and LCD frame, and even a pendant lamp. Flickr user Ilovecode.dk, turned his Cube into a fish bowl for his Be...

DIY Project: Ikea Bonde TV Bench... Simplified

On Ikea Hacker today, Swedish hackster Oscar Cederwall turns a gigantic Bonde TV add-on into a slick sideboard. "The main reason for why I decided to build my own side board from Bonde is because I ...

How To... Build a Baby Cam with a Mac Mini and iSight

Lauren Hirsch, a blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, was on maternity leave when she realized her love of Apple didn't have to go on leave post baby. She decided to turn a standalone iSight and I...

Ikea Hacked PC Desk

When Matt and Beck decided it was time to redecorate their office they hacked their way into a clean and simple space. "When we first moved in we sorta just slammed in whatever furniture we had, boug...

DIY Project: Repurpose a Coffee Table Into A HDTV Stand

With HDTVs getting thinner and thinner, and even being able to stream your NetFlix movies directly without any extra hardware, you'll need less and less space to showcase them. That being said, we don...

Furniture Made of Old Airplanes and Fighter Jets

Looks like turning old airplane parts into furniture isn't just a one hit wonder. Roughly 200 airplanes are retired every year. Most go to a scrap metal graveyards to be picked apart for worthy parts...

Nintendo Controller Morphs Into Doorbell

OMG! We need this. We NEEEEEEED it. One very creative DIYer retrofitted an old school NES controller to be a doorbell. Once any button on the controller is pressed it sends a signal to the wireless ...

Look! Interactive LED Ambient Lighting

Whoa, when people mention adding "mood lighting" we don't think they mean a full blown discotheque, laser light show. But that's exactly what Instructables user Hazard created using a customizable LE...

Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take the Stage

What you're looking at up there is the most minimalist of lamps, hand crafted from recycled lab equipment. No DIY project could be easier, we assure you. But the result is simple and, in it's own indu...

DIY Project: Build Your Own Automated TV Lift

Here's a great DIY for people who want to build their own automated TV lift without having to buy new media furniture... ...

Computers and Home Decoration: Finally a Way to Make it Happen

It's true that most computers don't really fit into stylish living rooms. Usually, they tend to stick out like sore thumbs. As desktops get smaller and smaller, companies are trying to find ways of ma...

Plastolux's Modern Credenza Ikea Hack

Tyler of design and interior blog Plastolux wanted to build a credenza, inspired by a project done by x818.com we showcased over at Apartment Therapy NY, except Tyler's budget dictated he needed to lo...