• Pink wireless-terminal of wonder [Hunter Davis] is at it again, this time hacking the pink IM-ME to use as a wireless terminal. It sells for between $12-16 and he ordered it to get free shipping with another purchase. The wireless antenna registered as an HID device when he plugged it into his Linux box. [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Borderlands recently released a patch — 1.0.1. This fixed many issues, which was cool. Even better is the fact that they’re also soon releasing an expansion pack DLC (downloadable content). It’s called the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned. It adds a few more places to travel to that entail additional monsters to kill [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> These babies are lubricated, ultra sensitive, extra thin, and make sure that YOU…are protected. You get a whopping total of 100 condoms for such a low price. Use them wisely and ensure they last you for more than just a week! Also note that you can make water balloons out of these if [...]

• Hackaday Links: Sunday, November 29 Sometimes we wonder if we’re making good choices with PCB layout when using EagleCAD. Watch how the pros do it with a video of an hour-long Adafruit PCB layout session compressed into seven minutes. [Elijah] documented his RepStrap build. This is a chicken-or-egg project in that RepStrap machines are [...]

• Using an iPhone as a Newton keyboard [Jesus Alvarez] sent us this funny little project. If you happen to have an iPhone and an old Apple Newton, you can use the iPhone as a keyboard for the Newton. You can download the schematic from his site to build the wire to connect the two. [...]

• Door opening help For those who are seeking prosthetic limbs, or just require a little bit of robotic gripper help, the choices are very few and very costly. A newcomer to the area is hoping to change the costly part with their door opening arm. Costing only $2,000 to build, it is quite cheap compared to the other [...]

• DS goes full size – pockets everywhere rally in protest It’s hard to believe we missed this one from a couple of years back but we’re thankful that reader [Christian] tipped us off about it. This a Nintendo DS with two tablet pc screens being used as an external display. He’s using an FPGA [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Do you know what day it is? No? That’s too bad. It’s Thanksgiving! Load up on as much food as possible. Jaaaa!

• Make any gloves work with a touch screen The chill of autumn is upon us, and with it comes the awkward sport of trying to work touch-sensitive phones and gadgets with gloved fingers. One can try toughing it out with fingerless gloves, or we’ve seen some costly solutions in the forms of specialized gloves [...]

• Commodore SQ1000 twitter wall: the twypper Before we begin, let us soothe those first dreaded thoughts. No, the commodore was not destroyed in the process. They can simply clip the 16 wires they added to interface the keyboard and be back to stock. Breathe a sigh of relief, and enjoy the twypper, a twitter [...]