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Tapestry of MacBook Pro
Originally uploaded by kayakleader. [at Flickr]
A huge wall hanging type thing at MacWorld San Fransico ‘06 displaying the MacBook Pro. I like the ad, quite funky

This is really cool collection of photos that are taken by a Nikon D100 digital camera. They must have used an incredibly high shutter speed to capture something like this. There are other photos as well, such as a small wood pole. They are really amazing!
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There are a few photos on a CNET post that show the inside of the before mentioned Xbox 360 car called the ‘Urge’. I don’t know why Nissan planned such a thing, it is really strange. It is obviously not playable from the driver’s position (unless in a parked position), however it is still interesting [...]

About 2 weeks ago, I wrote an article about hard disk recovery that was quite popular (I received approximately 20000 hits for it). The article covered a couple of solutions to help you in the case where your hard drive would stop working. While I was doing some research for this article, I ended up [...]

kay i was messing around with the efi loader, and i put vista dvd files/folders on a removable drive (usb). i then got to the “boot from file” selection on the boot loader and navigates to the vista cdrom.efi file on the drive. i hit enter andi got a boot screen! i took pics and [...]

Lightbulb uses a special bulb, inside which magnets and circuitry are hidden. Using a magnetic hall effect sensor, an electromagnet, and a [modified] PD feedback system, it floats a lightbulb stably in the air, while power is transmitted wirelessly from the base of the sculpture into the bulb. LEDs in the bulb rectify this AC [...]

We saw earlier this week that Nintendo didn’t announce another version of the DS like it was speculated. This is a really cool mockup of what the revised DS could look like. I would buy this in a heartbeat if this was real. It just seems really pocket sized and perfect. Looks like it was [...]

Microsoft may not offer an external Blu-ray Disc drive for the Xbox 360 after all. The software giant this week said it remains “fully committed” to HD DVD and has “absolutely no plans to support other optical formats”.
So no Blu-ray then. I kind of thought this in the beginning. Why would Microsoft support Blu-ray as [...]

Given that virtually all laptops have one of those standard (and not exactly secure) Kensington locking ports built in, we’re not sure why someone would go to the trouble to replicate that functionality using one of the computer’s USB ports. But that’s the idea behind the USB Port Security Lock, which apparently latches onto the [...]

Since I buy burnable media in bulk I usally have lots of unprotected discs lying around. One of my housemates suggested using an origami CD Case. The first thing I found on Google was a set of instructions made by a guy named Tom Hull. I have mirrored these instructions HERE.

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