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As this list proves, some console mods are absolutely breathtaking. From an R2-D2 that simultaneously plays every major console ever made with a built-in projector to XBox 360 laptops, the modding is a vast, wonderful world of skill and productivity. But then there are the people who take prized video games that could provide any person with thousands of hours of joy, and make them into accessories, or non-gaming gadgets. This is what this list features.
Some of these non-gaming mods are inspired, like Nintendo desk organizers (a disgrace to all Super Nintendo games). Some are dubious, like the N64 controller pipe. Still others, like a PS3 George Foreman Grill, are absolutely magical. These are the craziest ideas in the history of modern console modding, though none of these game console mods actually facilitate gaming at all.
GreenCub, a console/controller modder on Etsy, is taking old Nintendo systems like the N64 and the GameCube and creating desk organizers. They've found really cool ways to fit all your pencils, paperclips and other office supplies in them.
One prisoner in the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in West Sussex was using what was left of a Playstation 1 machine as the internal motor to power a homemade tattoo machine that he was using to ink up the other inmates. The machine was confiscated.
The XBox 360 pipe takes out the guts, uses the guide button as a nut, and allows you to use the cord holes to inhale. The classic Nintendo 64 controller pipe takes the middle handle and puts holes in it to make a carb; the nut is put on top where the analog stick usually goes, and the cord hole is used to suck smoke through.
One gamer took his XBox 360 and made an alarm clock out of it. After re-wiring it to display the numbers in the back, he made what used to be the DVD/CD slot into a tissue holder.
