Month: November 2005

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Bluetooth Headset Phone/iPod Hack

Here’s an amazingly easy hack for a Bluetooth phone headset so that you can listen to your iPod through it, and when a call comes through on the phone, you can pause the Pod, take the call, and then go back to your music. The guy who hacked this up used a cheapo Bluetooth headset and did little more than solder on a stereo mini-plug in place of the headset’s speaker.

Extra geek cred for using the Comic Life program for presenting the how-to piece (a growing little trend we’ve noticed).

[Via Engadget]

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Xbox Detailed Out-of-Box Experience

Don’t worry, Street Tech is not turning into yet another gamer fanboy site — there’s just a lot going on in the gaming space these days. ‘Tis the season n’ all that.

Brian over at Kotaku got his sweaty little controller-fingers on a 360 and has a series of pieces walking through set-up, use of Xbox Live, Xbox multimedia, interoperability, and some game play.

Update: Gizmodo has their own OOBE take on the 360.

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PSP and the Public Cocoon

Six students from the Royal College of Art in London are putting on a show that explores the statue-like forms people assume while playing with a Playstation Portable (or any other gaming handheld for that matter). From studying these gaming postures, the students designed cocoon-like “furniture” that conforms to the gaming postures. Visitors to the show are encourage to climb into the pieces.

[Via we-make-money-not-art.com]

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Shuffle Boombox for Road Warriors

You may already be familiar with the i-Fusion Portable Speaker System for the iPod. It’s a zippered travel case with built-in speakers that offers fairly impressive room-filling sound, a nice way for business travelers n’ such to carry and amplify their Pods. Sonic Impact now offers the i-Pax (US$80), a similar case and speaker system for the Shuffle. Not sure how this compares sound-wise, but if it’s comparable to the i-Fusion, it might be a nice mobile over-the-air solution.

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Atari 800 Laptop

Ben Heckendorn is flippin’ insane — this latest hack proves it. The well-known retro video game hacker (who brought us the Portable PlayStation 2 and the Phoenix 2600 handheld) is now showing off an Atari 800 Laptop.

One of the things that really impresses us about Ben’s hardware hacks is, not only are they functional, but they’re gorgeous works of techie folk art as well. Dig that groovy woodgrain finish.

[Via Engadget]

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This Holiday, Say You Care with Dirty Bomb Detection

Just in time for the holidays comes this lovely new fashion accessory for every apocalyptic paranoid on your gift list. It’s a Micro Bomb Detector, a serious little key fob thingy that’ll alert you to the presence of an RDD (Radiological Dispersal Device), a.k.a. a “dirty bomb.” Pair one of these little stocking stuffers with an avian flu nano-mask and you’ll clearly be telling your loved ones: “There are plenty of gadgets like these to keep us safe during the coming dark ages.”

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Circuit City Xbox Rumor Control

You’ve likely been hearing the rumors floating around that the Circuit City chain was going to be offering Xbox 360s for sale on Friday, Nov 18 (instead of the actual on-sale date of the 21st). The official word is that the City will take your MONEY on the 18th (at circuitcity.com only), you’ll still have to wait until the 22nd to get the actual box (if you pay for overnight shipping).

[Via Joystiq]

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PSP Contents Viewer

At Game Show & Trade 2005, in Seoul, Sony Korea was showing off the Contents Viewer, new software that allows you to view comic books and ebooks on the PSP, via the Memory Stick. You will also be able to listen to music while you read, thanks to a new “multi-task function.” No word yet on supported media formats.

[Via UberGizmo]

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Xbox 360: RTFM!

If you just can’t wait to peer inside of the Xbox 360, you can at least get a whiff of hardware to come by perusing the Instruction Manual that ships with the console. Available here via Kotaku.