If you are wondering, F.R.E.D is short for Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device – and he can strip you of your privacy faster than you can say “the RIAA sucks balls.” Basically, F.R.E.D takes hard drives, disks, flash drives, etc. from computers of suspected criminals and it sucks the data off – storing the evidence on a whopping 2.0 TB ...

The Airmagination Inflatable R/C Robot stands at a whopping 48″ tall – which would undoubtedly scare the hell out of pets, young children, and vertically challenged celebrities (Tom Cruise would piss his pants.) It can also be remotely controlled to move in all directions and speak a variety of prerecorded phrases in a robotic tone. Unless you have a pin ...

Anyone who has ever built and overclocked a PC knows that heat is a major obstacle. There are plenty of DIY remedies out there, but few are as amusing as this cheap MacGyver-esque solution. � Sean Fallon Link [via]

If you are into DIY projects, pay close attention because the following story is truly inspirational. PopSci photographer John Carnett took it upon himself to develop a device that truly benefits mankind — a beer machine that takes the process of making beer all the way from boiling extract to a chilled pint with almost no physical effort. In fact, ...

So, either your parents haven’t ponied up the dough for a new car, you have a bad job, or you just feel like riding a bike is more environmentally friendly. For whatever reason you’re riding a bike, the LED Spokes are a really cool way of making your wheels unique. If you can’t have the blingage of chrome rims, but ...

We’ve seen our fair share of Guitar Hero DIYs, but this would be the first time we’ve had the opportunity to make our very own PS2 GH controller from scratch. Of course, it’s not totally from scratch, you will need supplies. You’ll need a few old PS1 controllers, a whammy bar, various screws and other shiny items. You get the ...

It doesn’t get much more classic than Pong. We’ve seen the game immortalized in the form of a watch, and of course the game that inspired it, Ping Pong, is one of the most popular home played games, but this is just so damn cool. This self-made “Wall Of Pong” was made by a senior at Cornell University for an ...

This project from Imagitronics shows what can be done with a little bit of DIY ingenuity and a few pieces of government owned and hijacked traffic gear. Using a simple Mac app, this USB-controlled traffic light monitor is programmed to change color depending on the number of programs running, and more importantly, which programs were running. Based on the fact ...

Designer Chris Demino started this project with one problem in mind. Taking an old product and turning it into a functional product. The result is the Typo-Vac, an old typewriter which has been converted into a working vacuum cleaner. Concept design has taken a turn to the recycling of old products, and some of these ideas are ingenious. The Typo-Vac ...

That old expression “Go fly a kite”, which is basically a nice way to go tell people to go f*ck themselves, is brought to mind with this Cursor Kite. Since the kite string is almost invisible to the human eye the kite just looks like a real-life floating cursor, which is just beyond awesome. The Cursor Kite reminds us of ...