How-To: Turn your old computer into an aquarium

Before we had seen the story at “Hacked Gadgets” on computer aquariums we didn’t know how popular these projects are. There are whole web sites dedicated to this topic and people must have gone through quite some efforts to achieve results as shown there. More information and links at…

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Weekend activity: Do something with that old printer

Over the years most of us have gathered at least two printers at home and some of us got quite a collection of them. Latest since prices have drop so much it often does financially make no sense to get that old boy going again. And with that new printer you have it’s most unlikely that you would go back to half the resolution of the old one. So it’s collecting dust in your closet since quite some time - but what to do with it? - Our three suggestions to you…

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Gadget: Silkscreened CDRs and DVDs

US company 5inch offers pre-designed silkscreened CDRs and DVDs together with equally unique cases.
Custom designs and sets are also available.
Packs of 10s are about USD 13. Have a look at their shop.

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Wired: Battery of the future

After various incidents of exploding computers, airlines banning laptops and almost nine million laptops / batteries having been declared faulty over the last weeks in IT’s biggest ever recall action, voices have been raised and questions asked if the whole battery technology as currently used in mobile phones and laptops is actually safe.
It seems that [...]