NES controller cellphone and "Zack Morris" Bluetooth headset mods

by Evan Blass posted Jun 13th 2006 at 10:35AM

While mobile companies are doing their best to make cellphones as sleek and futuristic as possible, retro junkies keep taking them apart and turning them into ironic, yet functional, pieces of art like these. The first mod, from Grooveking.com, makes an old Motorolla DynaTAC 8000X or "Zack Morris phone" into a Bluetooth headset, that'll get 8-times the juice of a normal battery. The second project, from DIYHappy.com, takes an old NES controller (which has already gotten the Bluetooth treatment in the past) and fills it with the guts of a Nokia 3200 – yes, the American Idol phone. You need a little technical know-how to make these for yourself, but after you get the hang of it, all of your gadgets might end up crammed into NES controllers. Sadly, the Nokia 3200 doesn't have Bluetooth so you won't be able to use these two devices together, but we look forward to the future when our Xbox 360 controllers and Treos are turned into seemlessly-integrated retro kitsch.

Filed under: Handsets, Peripherals

Tags: 3200, bluetooth, cellphone, diy, hack, headset, mod, moto, nes, nintendo

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Brad @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:58PM

This is really cool what all you can do with a old NES controller.

I am really wanting to take an old NES controller and allow it to connect through bluetooth to my MOTO Q and control my NES games through my already loaded emulator. I think its highly possible with the exception of having enough room inside the case for the electronics to control it.

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