Modding

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Instead of lip-syncing and juggling, ArtBots will feature acts like Three Blind Mice, a performance piece involving real mice driving cars, and Jonah Brucker-Cohen's Drawbot Modding Competition, a project that lets participants make their own simple art-making robots. The shows are free and will end with an Audience Choice Award and and an Artists' Choice Award.

If you want to play around with the look and feel of your iPod but you don't have that hacker inclination, try one of the many iPod modding services, like iPod Mods. Besides doing repairs on Apple's portable music player, they also make cosmetic mods like changing the backlight coloring to blue, orange or green.

Why rock the boat? Suffice to say, I won't be modding my DS Lite to have a tilt-sensor like these inventive chaps. Plugging into the mini-USB port on the back, this homemade sensor doesn't work the way you would want.

For the nitty-gritty  this compiano has a current price of $7,000 on Ebay, with a Buy-It-Now at $12,000 with 20-percent supposedly being donated to charity. Which charity? Well of course, the poverty-stricken PC Case Modding Children of Qatar Fund, obviously.