We’ve seen iPod hacks run the gamut, from the useful to the just plain absurd , but no matter how rough around the edges such a project may seem, we always get a kick out of the ingenuity and hard work involved. Today’s DIY wonder comes from a cat named Benjamin Kokes, who’s using his engineering chops to put together a GPS peripheral for the iPod nano. As the project stands right now, he’s taken a reference board sporting a Nemerix GPS and written a screen driver for it, allowing it to do its thing on the handheld

I don’t generally check to see what’s new in apps when I’m prompted to update, but I’m glad I did. The latest Google app update put a ninja into your iPhone. We’re all doomed

Good ol’ Nokla , with its punny branding and utter shameless, has taken upon itself to build the touchscreen N98, based on a sketchy Nokia concept that was making the rounds last year and never materialized. There’s a 3-inch QVGA screen and dual-sim support, but things lean into the realm of Nokia parody with the complete lack of 3G or EDGE data. The worst part is that this phone actually looks kind of nice

You might think the future of surround audio lies in sophisticated DSP-driven single-box soundbars or even crazy wireless headphones , but Audyssey Labs knows the truth: what you really need is more speakers. Up to 11 of ‘em, to be exact, as part of the company’s new Dynamic Surround Expansion system

Filed under: Odds and ends , Surveys and Polls , iPhone Given all the other good publicity the iPhone has been getting, it won’t come as any great surprise that the J.D.

Oh sure, you could already get your paws around the Archos 2 flash-based PMP if you really, really wanted to, but we’re still thrilled to see the company come clean and begin offering it up on its own website. As of now, prospective buyers in the United States of America can “soon” select the 8GB version in black or white for $59.99, while the 16GB model arrives in the same color options for $40 more. In related news, ArchosLounge has shots of a new blue model, though there’s obviously no way to procure that bad boy just yet.

Earlier this week, we reported that a large number of businesses worry that social networking could endanger corporate security, but according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks , social networking is only a minor issue when compared to the proliferation of browser-based file sharing tools, P2P networks, remote desktop access applications, and more sophisticated encrypted tunneling applications like SSH, GPass , or Gbridge . Sponsor Palo Alto Network’ specializes in providing firewall solutions to enterprise customers, and this study is based on the behavior of nearly 900,000 users on 60 large corporate networks.

Over the weekend, Gigabyte held its regional overclocking finals in the Los Angeles. During the event, 12 competitors spent almost all of Saturday overclocking in an attempt to walk away as champion and be placed in the top spot for Gigabyte’s finals this

We already caught sight of Fujitsu’s new 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook in Japan earlier this month, and it looks like the company has now gotten official with the seemingly identical M2010 model for some other markets, although it still hasn’t made it all the way over here. The netbook itself is about as standard as can be, and includes a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and built-in Bluetooth, among other not at all surprising specs — although you will apparently get a bundled DVD burner and wireless mouse with it, which makes the nearly $650 price tag at least a tad more reasonable

Okay, so first things first — we all know the world’s on track to end in 2012, so it’s not like this really matters. But if , just if it manages to survive (