Chinese Hacker Turns Laptop Into Giant Touchscreen Phone

Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010

As the Google China hack sends the world slinking into more insane fear of the Middle Kingdom, it’s worth remembering that not all Chinese hackers are bad. Like our friends at NYC Resistor, some of them are homebrewing their own gear so they can talk to their friends and listen to European pop songs. Consider this DIY tech wizard, who voids the warranty on his Dell laptop to build what we were really hoping the iPad would be: a giant cell phone.

But might this fake Dell mega-phone itself be a case of Chinese fakery? Swarms of angry Photoshop-jaded commenters want to know, for instance, how a laptop screen becomes touch sensitive? Does it use a giant SIM card? Could hands that rubbery looking possibly be real?

Either way, this guy’s clearly a badass. He takes apart the friggin laptop and builds out of its parts a Zack Morris phone for the 21st century.

And as if his hacker skillz weren’t enough, listen to the brilliant music supervision: before calling his friend to show off his sound quality, dude pops in a mindblowing transition from The Chemical Brothers to this Scots-Irish pop singer whose music is part of the national English-learning curriculum in China. Edgy AND educational!

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Mason 29 days ago

Oh those Chinese... What will they come up with next?
listenn2slayer about 1 month ago

is that the ipad?!
Gabriella_Mangino about 1 month ago

totally mesmerized by the combination of this guy going crazy on the computer and The Chemical Brothers.
Orion about 1 month ago

Pocket size if you're the Jolly Green Giant.
localola about 1 month ago

this man just made a Dell iPad with his bare hands!! whaaaat?!!
nerdvana about 1 month ago

hands of jesus i tell ya
Giga_Please about 1 month ago

I'm thinking this isn't real, but if it's fake, it's a good one.
eddy_moretti about 1 month ago

this got 100 million views in CHINA
eddy_moretti about 1 month ago

we need ot ber able to post these to our facebook pages. when is that coming?

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An enthusiast of science, technology and web surfing, Alex Pasternack has written about culture, politics and the built and natural environments in places as far afield as Sichuan, China, Ulan Ude,...