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By Chris histrion Barr

There are a difference of phones discover there with touchscreens, which low connatural circumstances are great. However, erst the defy turns algid and the dress become on, these wonderful pieces of profession are rendered every but useless. If you desire to analyse your email, beam texts or do anything another than look at the concealment you’ll domain to effect at diminutive digit digit naked to the elements. That, or you only domain to be a foxy individual.

Since most good touchscreens order a conductive touchable (such as your skin) to work, your dress aren’t feat to removed when you contact it. However, if effect a conductive touchable that crapper contact both your harm and the concealment at the aforementioned instance it module work. Armed with this knowledge, you crapper forge a discernment of conductive arrange (yes, ostensibly they attain conductive thread) in the counsel of your glove’s finger finger. You’ll then be flourishing to go most your activity as usual, with every fingers safely exclusive the confines of a glove.

[ Instructables ] VIA [ CoolestGadgets ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Instructables member ‘laxap‘ has posted a relatively painless tutorial on how to turn an actual cigar into a glowing, fully functional USB flash drive. The most involved part of the build is trimming, boring and then completely sealing the cigar inside and out using a wood primer, but there’s also a bit of wiring and soldering involved in order to replace the cannibalized flash drive’s read/write LED with one that will cause the tip of the cigar to light up while the drive is being accessed.

[ Instructables - USB Cigar Flash Memory ] VIA [ Coolest Gadgets ]

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Nintendo PowerGlove, and yes, birthday cakes are in order. To celebrate, game designer Matt Mechtley has augmented it with Bluetooth and accelerometer chips for a more modern take on the hand peripheral — think of it as a more assimilated version of the Wiimote-embedded glove we covered in 2006. If you’re interested in following in his footsteps, instructions are available at Instructables and in the video form after the break — jump to 10:50 if you want to see it in action both with a test program and a brief glimpse at virtual boxing.

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Find yourself in situations where you can’t bring a handset but are in desperate need of one? This D.I.Y. from instructables will definitely sort that and your phone foot fetish out in a jiffy. All that’s needed is a tiny handset (the article recommends the Panasonic GD55) a pair of shoes big enough to stash said phone in, and a bit of spare time to put it all together. The win? You’ll find yourself in the company of secret agent Maxwell Smart as you surreptitiously dial and take calls from your shoe. The lose? Well, you’ve made and are talking on a shoephone.

[Via techdigest]
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If you’ve got some 60 x 60 solar panels, a few diodes, some scotch tape, and a little time on your hands, you may never need to plug in your DS ever again. According to “dark sponge,” a poster over at Instructables, you can convert the Lite into a solar-powered wonder that will obviate the need for your standard PSU, and make your green leaning friends, er… green with envy. The mod involves slapping panels on both the bottom and top of the device which — when wired in parallel — get 6 volts of power at 80 mA, which is apparently perfect for a trickle charge. The only downside is you’ll have to leave the device face down for a bit, and it’s advised to keep it out of the sun all day. Still, it’s an excellent mod that doesn’t seem too difficult to execute, and ends up saving hassle and energy… and who can knock that?

[Via SlashGear]
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