It's amazing what you can do with magnets and cardboard - how about hacking your own DROID dock.
This is what Engadget's Paul Miller has done, after learning that Motorola was using magnets in its DROID car and "multimedia station" docks (or DEXT for those of us in Europe).
Based on the positioning of a couple of magnets, the phone auto-loads the pertinent application," he writes. "The multimedia station at least offers a charging plug, but the car dock is all stand."
He soon worked out where to place the magnets for control, to spoof the phone into believing it was docked. In "car mode", for example, the navigation options are displayed. Check out the video over on Engadget. Points for ingenuity (if only for ingenuity, not functionality).
This is what Engadget's Paul Miller has done, after learning that Motorola was using magnets in its DROID car and "multimedia station" docks (or DEXT for those of us in Europe).
Based on the positioning of a couple of magnets, the phone auto-loads the pertinent application," he writes. "The multimedia station at least offers a charging plug, but the car dock is all stand."
He soon worked out where to place the magnets for control, to spoof the phone into believing it was docked. In "car mode", for example, the navigation options are displayed. Check out the video over on Engadget. Points for ingenuity (if only for ingenuity, not functionality).
