"The concept: In realtime you get to remix Rick Astley's legendary 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. You do it simply by pushing a bunch of buttons on a physical, custom built controller. You can change all the elements of the song and for example make a nice mashup of black metal, rap, gospel, gameboy sounds and Spanish vocals. You can also change the intensity and mood of the mix. It's just about as weird and fun as it sounds."

"We had 8 teams of hacks and hackers digging around the Scottish data beat. ... With this special digger, fire incidents, planning applications, public-owned property and gifts councillors’ received have been mined."

"Putting those together, one can take the depth image from the Kinect and turn it in to a metric point cloud with real distances. Then, those points can be projected back to the RGB camera centre to determine which RGB pixel corresponds to each depth point, and hence arrive a colour for each point in the cloud."

"I wanted to see how much intel you could gather from a person just by lurking on a social networking site. I [also] wanted to see who was most susceptible to clicking. I wanted to see how fast this thing would propagate. One of the things I found was that MIT and St. Paul's [prep school] were very cliquey. If they don't remember seeing you, they are not going to click. You had less of a chance of penetrating those groups than the actual intel and security communities."

"Using off-the-shelf chemicals, Tarnovsky soaked chips in acid to dissolve their hard outer shells. Then he applied rust remover to help take off layers of mesh wiring, to expose the chips' cores. From there, he had to find the right communication channels to tap into using a very small needle.

The needle allowed him to set up a wiretap and eavesdrop on all the programming instructions as they are sent back and forth between the chip and the computer's memory."

"A long time ago, in a galaxy identical to this one, I wanted to make a life-sized Katamari, and use it to play Katamary Damacy on PS2. My friend Eric Skiff shot a video, and while it’s not quite a polished project, I decided it’s time to share it with the world."

"In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. Some are more involved than others but all are fun and will provide you with some new lighting gear to experiment with."

"We have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites. As a proof of concept we executed a practical attack scenario and successfully created a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate trusted by all common web browsers. This certificate allows us to impersonate any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol."

"We found 4 different ways (including the Kuhn attack) to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. We tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of our 4 attacks."

"Screenshots of emails purportedly lifted from this account - which carries the address "gov.palin@yahoo.com" - were then passed to Wikileaks, and Wikileaks shared the stash with world+dog."

"Warcarting: the hobo's approach to wireless communications interception."

""He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks," said Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police."

Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, a high voltage LEGO vehicle, a continuous-fire ping-pong ball launcher, and other useless but incredibly fun inventions.

"Following a gruelling audition process, one solo worm was hand selected to perform its own music, without proviso, upon a specially adapted and destabilised FM synthesis circuit disembowelled from a Yamaha PSS-470"

A DIY Wii controller that's larger than the console itself.

Lost of nifty open hardware, etc.

"Just a little fun with Rollercoaster Tycoon 3"

"Well, I have finally achieved my "digital dreams" by purchasing a small Kodak snapshot scanner. Before long the device was reduced to its basic components and soon thereafter was doing things its designers probably never foresaw as possibilities."

Google Maps with an added pedometer. Bound to run into some need for this in the future *boom-tsh!*.

Don't mess with the IT department guys.

"One can find LCDs and TFTs embedded to almost everything so why not inside a mouse."

"So, your hand is getting a little warm while playing or surfing the net? This little mod could help you."

Ron Patrick's Street Legal Jet Powered Beetle

A variety of modded consoles.

Details of Abertay's new Ethical Hacking course.

Software that grabs OpenGL data from programs that can then be reused in other apps or even fabricated using a 3d printer.