Foxblocker Filters Out Fox News

Fox Blocker

oh yes folks, just what you’ve always wanted. the foxblocker is a little piece of metal that screws into your coaxial cable on the back of your television (or cable box) and will block out the news channel, FOX News. this is a very interesting concept because in theory, you could start to daisy chain these together and filter out whichever stations you wanted. i think it’d be fun to see these made into “nickelodeon blockers” or something to that effect. whatever will make your little brother cry.

it’s available now for $8.95 from the official website. thanks to off the hook for informing me.

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HOWTO: Put Linux On A ZipIt Handheld

Linux ZipIt

AiboHack of all places has come up with quite an interesting hack. Turns out someone actually can make good use of the $100 ZipIt Instant Messaging device. The ZipIt (in case you didn’t know) has built-in 802.11b WiFi, a really cheap 320×240 LCD screen, and the ability to IM with MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL Instant Messenger. Groovy, but what good is this to us if we don’t have a WiFi spot to use? Not much. So with a little tweaking and some re-flashing, you’ll be running a sub-2mb version of Linux in no time. Here’s what you’ll need:

  • A Zipit device you are willing to screw up

  • A Windows PC (Windows XP recommended)

  • A WiFi card, or WiFi access point, attached to the Windows PC

  • Optional: Linux PC or cygwin running on Windows PC (for compiling your own Linux ARM apps)

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Hackaday Links

dig robots? dig sex? dig this.

remember the bicycle wheel pov we were checkin out? well the iball can display any random crap you want basically

James Dean has nothing on this easy rider with QNX installed [john]

the french might be able to actually win a war sometime soon with this real solar death ray
melts steel in 3 seconds. [Alexis]

for you fancy caviar eaters out there, maybe this is your kind of teleprompter

it’s only a matter of time before somone steals your credit card with RFID embedded in it and gets their ass thrown in jail 3 seconds later, fool

if there were a superman fighting against credit card fraud, this dude would be it

learn how to wipe your hard drive and not your bank account

this replicator bot can make you anything. by “anything” we mean a plate or a pot.

by now you might have gotten your treasured psp so now is probably a good time to read about hacking it

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