Hacker Challenge: Create a Combo Hack

Welcome, Lifehackers, to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That gives you a few days to think about it and a whole weekend to work it up. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will win an autographed copy of the Lifehacker book!

Let's get started!

This Week's Hacker Challenge: Create a Combo Hack

James Bond has a watch that shoots lasers and a pen that doubles as a camera. In honor of Spy Week, we want to see what combo hacks you've created. For the purposes of this challenge, a combo hack is one in which you make a single device have more than its intended purpose. Whether it's a table with a secret remote drawer, a game console you've built more gaming ability into, or controlling your garage door with your smartphone, it all counts. This challenge is pretty open. The thing you hack should retain its original use, but add a little something extra. So, get creative and show us your best combo hack.

How to Submit Your Entry

Make sure to follow these instructions when you submit your entry:

• Post your entry below or send it to challenge@lifehacker.com with the subject Hacker Challenge: Combo Hack. If you post your entry below and need to include more than one image, just reply to your own comment or host your extra pics on a free, quick image-hosting site like imgur and link out to your gallery.
• We will accept entries up through Sunday night, November 18 at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time
• We will showcase the best submissions and announce our favorite Monday, November 19.

Break out your tools and get to work! And don't forget to check back every week for a new challenge.

Standard Gawker contest rules apply, so be sure to check them out before submitting your entry.

This post is part of Spy Week, a series at Lifehacker where we look at ways to improvise solutions to every day problems Bond-style. Want more? Check out our spy week tag page.

Photos by Brian A Jackson, Slavoljub Pantelic, and Hamik (Shutterstock).

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/fT_eNKJlh9c/hacker-challenge-create-a-combo-hack

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