Hacks Archive

  • Help Wired Pimp Our Kegerator, Win Free Beer

    Help Wired Pimp Our Kegerator, Win Free Beer

    Wired.com is building a kegerator at our San Francisco office, and we need your help to pimp it out, Wired style. We’re going to pit our machine, which we affectionately call Beer Robot, against two store-bought models we have in house for review. While we think Beer Robot will give the others a run for their [...]

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  • Video: Unlocking the iPhone 3GS

    Video: Unlocking the iPhone 3GS

    Over the holiday weekend, iPhone hacker George Hotz released a jailbreak solution for the iPhone 3GS. (To clarify: jailbreaking is not the same as unlocking, but rather a hack to allow you to run unauthorized applications. Jailbreaking, however, is required in order to perform an unlock.) The Dev-Team Blog, who regularly posts iPhone hacks and [...]

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  • There I Fixed It: Gallery of Dangerous, Hilarious Hacks

    There I Fixed It: Gallery of Dangerous, Hilarious Hacks

    There isn’t much to say about the blog “There I Fixed It”, other than that you should add it to your RSS reader immediately. It’s a gallery of user-submitted hacks, the twist being that these hacks are disastrous, usually dangerously so, and many of them could quite possibly end in death. The new car lock above [...]

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  • England Gets NYC-Reject Bike Racks

    England Gets NYC-Reject Bike Racks

    Last year, the results of the New York CityRacks Design Competition were announced. The winner? Woking, in leafy Surrey, England. While New Yorkers get a fragile, ugly and hard-to-use steering-wheel-shaped rack, the rather prettier and much more functional Y-Rack (a losing entry in the contest) is being installed on English streets. Just take a look at [...]

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