If you’ve bought the Energizer DUO USB battery charger , you might want to uninstall the software immediately. Why? Because it comes pre-loaded with a backdoor that can let someone remotely access your computer. The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a backdoor that allows unauthorized remote system access.

This mod turns the PSP into a pretty cool looking little VU Meter (that’s volume meter, to you non-audiophiles). So dust of that PSP kiddo, it’s time to breathe life into that fledgling portable once again! The hack is the work of “foo foo” and it works as advertised. Spin up an audio track, and watch the little lights pump up in down with the levels. It’s no Korg DS-10, but then again few things are. At the very least this hack would provide you with literally minutes of fun as you wait for Sony to get its act together and release the mythical PSPad , PSP Phone, or whatever it ends up being. [ Foo foo via Engadget ]

Mindflex, the brandwave-detecting game, will probably give you a headache no matter what. But Harcos Labs decided to take it further, with a hacked Mindflex that shocks you when you concentrate too hard. The result: science, and hilarious shock videos. The original Mindflex headset indicates how hard you’re concentrating with a series LEDs. But with a little ingenuity and an electroshock kit, the devilish geniuses at Harcos turned it into something of a torture device: Harcos hooked up the leads of the LEDs to a transistor/resistor relay network so they’d instead activate an electric-shock kit made by QKit. The end result

Take a Linksys running custom firmware , tap into the hardware to power a circuit controlling the locks, and SSH into the router with custom iPhone and Android apps to flip the circuit. Easy, right? [ Sunlight via Make via Engadget ]

Even as US authorities are getting pretty damn sure who’s behind the high-level hacking attempts from the other month , and that they were launched from the Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, China’s all “Nuh uh, eff you guys.” I mean, that really is the essence of their rebuttal. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said that “Reports that these attacks came from Chinese schools are totally groundless and the accusation of Chinese government involvement is also irresponsible and driven by ulterior motives.” And that’s that, I’m sure . [ The Hill ]

Hard drive clocks are a dime a dozen on sites like Etsy, but Hacked Gadgets reader NatureTM went the extra mile and employed an Arduino to control the time and LED light show on the reflective platters. This is only phase one of NatureTM’s project, a chronodot (for time accuracy) and a case will eventually be added. Details on the build are pretty basic at the moment, but a schematic can be requested and code should be posted…eventually. [ Hacked Gadgets ]

GeoHot, one of the fathers of the iPhone’s jailbreak community, has just released the exploit that’ll unleash all sorts of promising PS3 hackery, just like he promised . We can’t wait for the homebrew and, frankly, piratical features this enables. From the source: This is the coveted PS3 exploit, gives full memory access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS. Enjoy your hypervisor dumps. This is known to work with version 2.4.2 only, but I imagine it works on all current versions

Droid draggin’? Apps crawlin’? Android creepin’? Then maybe you should overclock your Droid to 1.1GHz, like this guy! But really no, don’t. The boys at AllDroid have figured out how to overclock the Droid’s ARM Cortex A8, normally clocked at 550 MHz, to 1.1GHz

Nope. No way. No conceivable way whatsoever this massage video game controller, called the Massage Me , could be hacked or used in a way that makes it sexual or awkward to use if your parents walked in the room: You see, while you play your games normally, the Massage Me harness translates those button presses into different massage techniques, which are then used on a partner (or yourself) via the harness. The system works with a hacked PlayStation controller for now, but the design is such that any button mashing controller will work just as well. “The best massages come from playing games that require the player to press a lot of buttons and combinations,” says designers Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson. Indeed, you coy bastards, indeed.

George Hotz, the young gun who first hacked the iPhone 2G, has claimed to have compromised the Playstation 3. On his blog , Hotz wrote: I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software.