Nokia’s PUSH N900 campaign is designed to showcase how powerful, adaptable, and versatile the Nokia N900 Maemo OS platform really is by allowing hackers and modsters to get to grips with this amazing new handset prior to its official release. We've already seen how the N900 functions as a portable SNES player, but this is only the tip of the iceberg as some of the hacks being entered into PUSH N900 are amazing. Check the PUSH N900 hack sout after the jump...

Push N900 invites hackers, mods, creatives, and coders to push the Linux powered N900 to its limits and if you haven’t already begun creating your masterpiece you should probably get cracking, as the competition, in which you can get your hands on a Nokia N900 and funding to realise your designs, ends on the 11th October.

However, to get your creative juices flowing, here are some examples of the best hacks from Nokia’s OneDotZero launch event:

1980s Radio playback - If you ever get bored of the high quality of MP3’s and sometimes wish you could just listen to your tracks as they would have been heard in the 80s, then this hack is one of you. By texting a bands name, say The Cure, into the N900 it then pulls their tracks off Last.fm and pushes the audio to a radio giving you that lovely 80s mono sound.

Control Speak ‘n’ Spell - Through the use of open source script, the N900 can be made to control the screen, keyboard, and speech synthesis of a Speak ‘n’ Spell voice synthesizer.

Create 3D images - By connecting the Nokia N900 to a View-Master to can create 3D images, which can then be viewed on the device. This is achieved by moving the View-Master left and right which triggers the N900 to take two pictures. The two images are then combined as one by an open source script, and hey presto, you have a 3D image on your N900.

Sync a Rolodex - Again, through some form of coding black magic, one hack manages to sync the N900’s contacts with a retro 80s Rolodex by using Arduino and Bluetooth technology. The finished result is that when you roll through your Rolodex, the N900 flicks through the corresponding contacts on the device.

As we’re sure you’ll agree, PUSH N900 really does illustrate, quite profoundly, what is potentially possible with the N900’s powerful Linux Based Maemo OS. But what would you like to see it connected to? Let us know in the Comments below.

Check out the PUSH N900 video hacks and mods for yourself:

Via: PUSH N900