Household Hacker
Household Hacker is a fun new site that supposedly shows you how to charge an iPod with an onion and Gatorade, how to build a high-definition speaker for under a dollar, and how to intercept cell-phone signals using a few household items. The veracity of the site’s demonstrations has proved controversial among the Interweb masses, but they’ve proved to be a phenomenon as thousands of people post their own science experiments online in response.
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no said | 13 December, 2007
You shouldn’t condone ANYTHING made by household hacker….he is a fake, none of his stuff works, ever….and ontop of that, you will probably set your house on fire of have batteries explode in your face, covering you in red hot battery acid if you even attempt step 1 of his ‘Cell Phone Interceptor’
The man needs a swift kick in the face, and quickly…..he’s earning money by parading useless gadgets on the internet though advertising & people STILL visit his site!
I would seriously rethink your statement about how ‘fun’ his website is, as 1) Making stuff that doesn’t EVER work is not in my book classed as ‘fun’ and 2) having short circuited batteries explode boiling battery acid on your face and potentially blinding you is not, again, classed as ‘fun’ by me, or whomever it happens to.