Nook e-reader hacked and rooted

From TG Daily -

Per Wired, a team of hackers has successfully rooted the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader, allowing users to connect it to a computer and freely access the OS using Google's Android developers kit. The hack, which involves mounting the unit's Android OS MicroSD card on a PC (via a card reader) and altering the init.rc file, transforms the Nook into a color touchscreen computer running a full Android install, with free wireless over 3G from AT&T plus Wi-Fi, and a battery that lasts days. It also has multi-media messaging service (MMS) support, as well as support for a speech recognition engine. Which all means it is just the kind of platform killer apps will be developed for.


More details of the hack here.