Hardware modders take their love of gadgetry to the furthest possible extreme and "roll their own." Always looking for something better, bigger, smaller, or just plain cooler than what's commercially available, they're not content to simply pick up a new toy at the nearest box store. We've seen portables fashioned from game systems as far flung as the Xbox 360, PS3, SNES and the Atari Jaguar, Guitar Hero controllers built out of actual six string guitars, and PCs crammed into everything from R2D2 to a toaster. The desire for mutant gizmos is not just skin deep, however. For some folks cellphones exist to be jailbroken, WPA networks exist to be busted open, and OS X exists to be placed on machines not authorized by Apple. You own it -- why not take it apart and see how it really works?
