Experimental Gadgets Hacking Hardware Modding
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Apple Gadgets Hacking Hardware High Performance Macintosh Modding OS X PC Software
Become the proud owner of a high-end desktop “Mac” without paying the Apple Tax. A very cool project indeed.
Design Experimental Gadgets Hardware Modding
The Royal College of Art’s graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was a plug. Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passer by with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of an Apple MacBook Air. “The MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest laptop ever. However, here in the UK, we still use the world’s biggest three-pin plug,” says Choi.
The idea produced a spin off, too. Choi created a multi-plug adaptor, a compact standard plug sized unit with space for three folded plugs to slot in, as well as one that charges USB devices.
This simply has to be commercially produced.
Apple Experimental Gadgets Hacking Macintosh Modding OS X
You might be interested in learning how to install OS X on netbooks from the likes of Dell, MSI or Lenova… then again, you might not!
Community Experimental Gadgets Hacking Hardware Modding
“It’s almost a Fight Club for nerds,” says Nick Bilton of his hacker space, NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, New York.
Inspired by Pixar’s 2008 cult movie Wall-E, a Russian modder has designed and built one of the most amazing computer mods I have ever seen. The Wall-E mod is stunning in its engineering and attention to detail. Beautifully machined and remarkably true to Pixar’s characterisation, the Wall-E mod project was completed in just 18 days!
What a shame the creator didn’t build this machine around a Mac mini!
