Must not be all that skilled in business, even for those 25 years. I mean, how does this hack make any money? wft, no leds? no <3

Posted at 4:11 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by koft

Damn! Another WEEK and I would have hacked this baby. My server’s CMOS battery is dead, so I was going to wire the easy button up to a keyboard matrix to press F1 during POST. :-)

Posted at 5:26 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by ayeyen

i’ve got 2 of em…i bought one on impulse and then my mom, who knows me oh-so-well, bought me one for the holidays. So one sits at home and the other at the office. i think we’ve found a fate for at least one (probably the work one).

Posted at 5:46 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by alex

nice. we have on of these at the front desk at work. It might have to disappear one night and be back in the morning…

Posted at 6:25 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by roberto

|0|, Thats cool

Posted at 6:49 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by Gen0cide

My favorite “evil” appliance is when you rig “The Clapper” up to someone’s PC.

Posted at 10:40 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by Derwin

Um, daft question, but, whats an Easy Button?
What does it do?

Posted at 10:42 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by Matt

Thats no “Evil” button! Evil buttons don’t go on rants about technology. A good “Evil” button would do the following:

“EVIL” lettering is actually a conductor. When button is pressed, it triggers the discharging of 4 disposible camera flash capacitors in parallel through the users hand. Functionality of the appendage may or may not return within a week.

Posted at 11:23 pm on Jul 18th, 2006 by Jozer

#8 – the appendage itself probably won’t return at all :P let alone the functionality of it :p

amusing nonetheles

Posted at 2:00 am on Jul 19th, 2006 by trebuchet03

#9 – surface burns only, possibly some scarring, but the worst injury I’ve gotten from a regular disposable camera is a constellation burn from showing people it wasn’t that dangerous. 4 at a time over a wider area won’t be life changing or threatening unless you press it with both hands making a circuit through your heart.

although a scar on the palm of your hand that says evil backwards…

Posted at 5:05 am on Jul 19th, 2006 by Ben

i am having problems with the links. when i click on a link the same page loads again.

Posted at 8:01 am on Jul 19th, 2006 by Mikesh Shrestha

#7: An easy button is made by Staples, when you press it, it says “That was easy” (”That was easy” is Staples slogan.). Go to http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=0&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=130700&cmArea=SEARCH to see the page for it on Staples web-site.

“My roommate thought it would be funny if someone wired it to generate the shift+delete key sequence.”
It seems easy to do, all you have to do is wire a button to the contact points on the keyboard. Look at http://www.mameworld.net/emuadvice/hack.pdf for more info, yes, it maybe for MAME arcade machines, but it will tell you how to do it.

Posted at 8:42 am on Jul 19th, 2006 by Pick

This is the most worthless thing yet on hackaday that I’ve seen.. there’s something to be said for a site that has a build your own CNC router one day and the next day they’re hacking easy buttons

Posted at 10:00 am on Jul 19th, 2006 by Chuck

Good job man… you made the front page of digg.

Posted at 12:14 pm on Jul 19th, 2006 by Matt Sandy

what does the shift-delete sequence do?

Posted at 1:29 pm on Jul 19th, 2006 by dan

shift+delete permanently deletes files

Posted at 2:43 pm on Jul 19th, 2006 by conor

Ehh, no, it’s not permanent. Shift-Delete has the same result that emptying the recycle bin does (it just deletes the thing that points to the data). Data is almost always not permanently deleted.

Posted at 2:54 pm on Jul 19th, 2006 by Professor Bagelwood

#16 You’re right…my bad grammar…I just meant in the n00b sense of the word permanent

Posted at 6:36 pm on Jul 19th, 2006 by conor

I would like to let every one know staples does not make any money off of the easy button. Staples donates the proceeds to the boys and girls foundation. So they are doing a good deed. I have always had great service there my self.

Posted at 8:26 pm on Jul 20th, 2006 by MIke

its not that they hate staples, just the button. Its annoying and pretty much mocks you.

Posted at 9:26 am on Jul 21st, 2006 by eVAN

boring hack (more like a case swap)
still some for someone to reflash or something else creative.

Posted at 8:27 am on Jul 22nd, 2006 by uncle joe

‘that was sleazey’ all i gotta say

Posted at 11:10 pm on Jul 22nd, 2006 by Frogz

In Canada we send the proceeds to special olympics (yes I’m a staples sales associate). I proposed this mod to one of the guys in furniture, who wants to mod one and keep it around in the area… I think some of the female colleagues in the store will WTF at this. You’d be surprised at how many of those tricks we sell though…

Posted at 2:01 am on Jul 30th, 2006 by colonel62359

This rocks!

I would have mine give off a evil laugh… after doing a shift+delete!

Posted at 2:11 am on Aug 4th, 2006 by jim

I see a couple already hacked on ebay.

Posted at 6:23 pm on Jan 10th, 2009 by rdriver