Here’s an interesting kit for tinkerers: Canadian startup EZ-Robot has started offering a kit that’ll let you build your own robot. Actually, the kit just includes a wireless controller, an ultrasonic distance sensor, wireless tracking camera, three servos, two rotating servos, battery pack and software – all of which make up the guts of your potential robo-creation. But the fun part is in what you can turn into a robot… basically anything you can fit the parts into: stuffed animals, your sister’s doll, existing non-smart robot toys, and in this best example, DJ Sures’ homemade Wall-E shown in the video above.
Anyone who knows how Apple – or at least Steve Jobs – operates knows this: when the company designs their products, they want to make sure that the insides are laid out beautifully, even when they don’t want you opening up their stuff to see it. iFixit just came out with a mod that’ll let you appreciate and show off your iPhone 4S’s interior guts permanently with a transparent glass back panel.
After a dev successfully hacked Siri onto an iPhone 4, here’s another attempt at making Siri run on a different iOS device. According to this post at jailbreakstory, the work that had Siri running on the iPhone 4 has been passed on to another developer called @jackoplane, who then managed to muscle Siri onto a first-gen iPad.
Console question: would you rather have a PS3 or an Xbox 360? Some gamers prefer one console platform over the other, while other gamers – the more dedicated ones who can afford them at least – just pick up both. Well, dedicated hardcore gamers, here’s something that you can’t really buy at a store, but you’re going to want it nonetheless: a modded PC case that neatly fits both consoles inside.
Why wait a year for Apple to release the iPad 3 when you can build your own? That was what this guy was thinking when he did exactly that: he went out, picked the parts, spread them out on a table, and built a fully functioning tablet (one that he calls the “iPad 3”) from scratch in two weeks, complete with an Apple logo… along with a USB port and what looks like an Ethernet port along one side. Oh, and a Windows XP OS. If you want to see how he did it, there’s a 15-minute video showing the build after the break.
