I talked to phillip m. torrone today — he’s got one of the coolest websites for any product geek.
Phillip essentially takes products that you have in your home and hacks them into uber-products that are much more powerful. he’s one of those guys that originally hacks things like Tivo to put on a bigger hard drive but ends up also turning it into a coffee-maker and a robot that feeds your fish.
definitely worth checking out his site: http://flashenabled.com/