Gadget Hacks How-Tos

How To: Apple's Big TV App Update Gives You 10 New Features and Changes to Enhance Your Viewing Experience

How To: Use FaceTime's Secret Hand Gestures and Reaction Buttons to Add Animated On-Screen Effects to Your Video Feed

How To: Turn your stereo into an iPod stereo

This video gives you the simple steps of turning your ordinary stereo into an iPod stereo with just a headphone jack.

How To: Create a custom streaming Flash MP3 player

This tutorial shows how to create a custom mp3 player for your myspace page, website and blog using Flash in under 10 minutes using SnapDrive. Create a custom streaming Flash MP3 player.

How To: Turn a laptop touch pad into a mini graphics tablet

TOUCHPAD HACK - This video tutorial shows how to transform a touchpad into a useful mini graphics tablet with some simple, everyday items. You will need a 1.5V battery, a small ball bearing, and a Philips head screwdriver. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to transform a touch pad into a miniature graphics tablet.

How To: Make a safe out of a speaker

Transform your old stereo cabinet speakers into a secret, lockable safe.

How To: Make a USB crystal ball light

Make a crystal LED light from the chemicals in a cold compress that runs on USB power.

How To: Make a Leyden jar static electricity capacitor

Build an old static electricity capacitor which will shock the electricity of your TV or computer screen. The full discharge of this Leyden jar can be deadly. Make it smaller if you want to try with your kids.

How To: Build an android head for $30

This android can talk, listen,and, with some tuning with a voice recognizer software, it will open and close many different applications.

How To: Make an Eggstractor to peel boiled eggs

Very useful way to peel an boiled egg. With this homemade gadget you can peel over 50 eggs in a minute.

How To: Make a homemade anti-gravity toy (FAKE?)

F for FAKE. This video has been labeled a "Faux-To". Commonly contested as bogus science, we believe this video to be a hoax. What's your opinion? Comment below.

How To: Build a beer cooling machine

Build a machine that will cool beer in as fast as 6 seconds using an Airduster can of compressed air.

How To: Use Sirius Direct in a BMW with navigation

This video shows you how to operate a BSW Sirius Direct kit in a BMW 3 series/M3 (E46) with navigation.

How To: Use voice commands with BMW Bluetooth and navigation

This tutorial shows you how to use voice commands with BMW Bluetooth and navigation. This video pertains in particular to the BMW 3 series/M3 (E46).

How To: Dial using a bluetooth system in a BMW with navigation

This video shows you how to dial using a bluetooth system in a BMW 3 series/M3 (E46) with navigation.

How To: Pair a phone with a BMW bluetooth kit with navigation

This video shows you how to pair your phone with your BMW bluetooth integration kit in a 3 series with navigation.

How To: Prank people with a fake webcam made on MSN

Learn how to do a fake webcam on msn with Splitcam! Learn all the configurations. Easy and simple , can be use to play any video. Watch and learn.

How To: Program voice dialing in a BMW bluetooth module

This video will guide you through setting up voice dialing on a BSW bluetooth system in a BMW.

How To: Pair your phone and BMW bluetooth retrofit kit

This video will guide you through the pairing process of the OEM BMW bluetooth retrofit kit.

How To: Use a BSW bluetooth system in a BMW

This video will cover using your OEM BSW Bluetooth Retrofit kit in your BMW.

How To: Access a hidden menu on a Verizon Motorola V3m Razor

Use a special code to access a special system menu inside of a Verizon Motoroloa V3m Razr cell phone. Access a hidden menu on a Verizon Motorola V3m Razor - Part 1 of 2.

How To: Test any TV remote

Simple test using a cell phone camera to test to see if any TV remote or other infra-red device is working. Test any TV remote.

How To: Make your own PS3 sixaxis-style USB controller

How to make your own "PS3 6-axis controller" style BASIC-programmable USB device.

How To: Make a CAT 5 LAN cable

Directions on creating a LAN cable with an RJ45 cable

How To: Increase your wireless signal strength with a soda can

In this movie is going to teach you how to increase your wireless signal strength with a soda can. Cut the aluminum can in half to create a parabolic shape. Then fit the can around the WiFi antenna to help boost the signal's strength and direct it towards your wireless computers or laptops.

How To: Make an LED sign

Learn how to make a sign using a large perforated board and about 50 LEDs. Looks

How To: Make a cheap heads-up display (HUD)

It may be intended as a toy, but this gizmo can be hacked for more than just watching a remote-controlled car's video spy cam. This HUD (heads-up display) comes with the Wild Planet Spy Gear Video Car, but it's said that you can purchase the video headset separately. And it's not really a HUD, because you can't see through the video images, but it's close enough to be handy for all sorts of things, like computers, iPods, robots, wireless cameras, and gaming. Who wouldn't like to Call of Duty ...

How To: Hack a camera into a taser

Build your own cheap taser with an old camera and some plastic. These guys even show you the final product's effects on each other.

How To: Shut off your alarm clock with a light phaser

We'll base the project around a digital clock radio and a light gun for gaming; huge selections of both of these are available inexpensively second-hand, with many beautiful and well-designed examples. To enable our FPSI (First Person Shooter Interface), we'll outfit the gun with five tilt sensors, arranged at different angles on a small circuit board. A cable tethers the gun to the clock and carries your tilt and trigger signals to the clock's time and alarm control button contacts.

How To: Transform a camera into a taser

This is a long form tutorial on exactly how to disassemble the disposable camera to make a shocking taser. Make a tazer or taser using simple things at like a disposable camera and some simple hack sense. This prank is great to pull on an unassuming friend. Transform a camera into a taser.