03Apr

Hacked Facebook Headquarters

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When the last of the employees moved into the new Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg announced a “Space Hackathon.” His post encouraged everybody to decorate the new space to make it their own—tag the walls with spray paint, hang cool posters, and hack the building with some patented Facebook personality. But a few of them interpreted the call to action a bit too literally. They decided that they wanted their “space hack” to actually be visible from space. They wanted to hack the globe… with a QR code nontheless.

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14Mar

Hatcher says she was hacked

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05Mar

Gossip: Hendricks hacked?

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15Dec

Old Rotary Phone Hacked To Play Nice With Siri

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By David Ponce

It’s kind of ironic that there seems to be a developing trend of using new technology to breathe new life into really old tech. Like that retro looking cordless handset we wrote about a little while back. And now we hear of a hack that pretty much resuscitates the operators of old. Maker and hacker Davis Remmel took an old rotary phone and made it play nice with Siri. He took a Bluetooth headset, relocated the speaker and microphones to their respective places in the dumbbell receiver and wired the board so that dialing “1″ activated Siri. A sticker with the Siri logo in the center of the dial completed the effect. Watch the video, it’s very future-old-timey…

[ Step By Step Rotary Siri Hack ] VIA [ Wired's Gadget Lab ]



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