Unless you gave it a retro styled cover to look like a very old computer, this looks pretty tacky, in my opinion.

3qM

That proves it, nerds are not interior designers and never will be.

Personally, I've built plenty of PCs and never found a MoBo attractive unless it was behind glass with some cool LEDs glowing off it. This just looks like a junkyard on walls.

KryptonZero

Another great use for worthless equipment that originaly cost thousands of dollars.
He should put power to them so the little LEDs would flash.

reddingofish

The only way it could be cooler is if he painted them all. That would be amazing.

Motherboard textured walls.

Priest

he should rig a mobo up in the middle of them all that actually was a running computer... camoflaj!

Shub-Niggurath

wait wait wait, they hung motherboards over the jenna jamison posters?!

s017jrs

That doesn't look cool at all... but neither does the peg board the boards are hanging on.

hagrun

mmmm... free lead...

s017jrs

I'm sure being around all those exposed motherboards is good for your health....who doesn't like a small dosage of lead in the morning???

SlimDan22

I'm sure all those metals leaching into the air isn't harmful at all. I mean.. I try to breathe in as much particulate matter as possible.

Ftp1423

I would hate to accidentally bump up against that wall.

terry

aren't motherboards made out of some pretty toxic plastics? i mean what if this place lit on fire?

robokasey

not very good if you have allergies. I could not survive in that basement more then a few minutes unless he hours spends every day vacuuming the walls to remove accumulated dust. But it looks cool in pictures :)

froggy

Saw a guy the other day who put a motherboard on the lid of his bag/man-purse.
It looked equally horrific.

TetsuBo

He should make at least a couple of em working computers. That would be awesome. Make an HTPC and get a nice HDTV...

Log1c

...I bet somebody on acid who was in that room would think they were inside a computer...

parliamentpoet

if my girls sees this and doesn't wanna have sex, then she's not the right one. this invention could save loads of time.

josecardozo

Great. though dust maybe problem after couple of weeks.

deactivated

HAHAHAHA IF YOU EVER WANT TO HAVE SEX AGAIN! such finality, so you thing a lady of the evening would forgo the money and flee for her life when she walks into a house completely covered in mother boards.

parliamentpoet

Snarkiness aside, if he'd bothered to remove all the chips, sockets, capacitors, etc. and leave only the on-board circuit traces, this might actually look kinda cool. As is, it's just butt-ugly.

rekoil

@parliamentpoet: It doesn't work like that, it's that things turn into what you're thinking about. For instance, if a tall person walked by and I was thinking about dinosaurs, they could turn into a dinosaur for a few seconds. But the hallucinations don't stay more than a few minutes before your brain moves onto something else, like a "wall breathing". More likely than not, you wouldn't be able to comprehend motherboards on walls because motherboards don't GO on walls. It would just give you a horrible trip because your brain would be sub-consciously confused until you left the room.

Substance_D

I think its pretty cool. They earn 100 points of geek cred.

Aneurism

I think you are all overlooking the true health benefits. When "they" try to scan your brain from "out there", their scanning devices will get confused going through all those processing lines and think you are a super genius and stop messing with you like they been messin' with me all these years. Ohhh the humanity!!!

willie333

I have two hangin in my living room.

DoPeY5007

I suppose the aesthetics are a bit lacking for an HCI lab. These seem to lack both form and function.

DorkRawk

the flamboyantly gay interior designer in me just threw up a little.

tehdahl

Can it play Crysis?

clockradio

@deactivated: my point exactly on the Neatorama boards.

Snorbalp

This is a deeply horrible idea. How can you stagger drunk into the wall if the wall fights back in a pokety stabbity rip-your-skin-away way? Not to mention stumble/trip/fall and instead of merely a bruised ego, gaining a series of nasty lacerations, probably filthy ones since no one's going to dust them...

Narual

Cloud Computing Misinterpreted.

orphic1

Unless a Cray MB is present, no thank you.

JChristopher

NERDCORE!!!

rdldr1

Pretty crazy sweet! Does anyone else see the strong resemblance to some of the levels in Doom? hahaha :)

Yeah, I've already had PCBs on my wall for "art" purposes. I've got the PowerPC 604e daughter-card of my old PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225 on the wall, and my dad has a 286 motherboard and a Quadra 650 motherboard on the wall in his computer room.

I have literally a couple boxes just full of old motherboards.. this seems like a pretty valid use of them! ;)

amatecha

Resistance is futile. The cube will be completed in 20 years. Unfortunately, he won't be propagating any new drones to help, since earth women kind avoid these kinds of forward thinkers. Yadda yadda, something, overlords, yadda.

jkr's bold comment

HAHAHAHA...HAHAH...HA... okay. That's kind of ugly.
But classy.

Eruanno

@josecardozo: Agreed, sir.

Yes, it is ugly as hell. But...It's still really cool.

KarinDiscoGirl

Why on earth would anyone scour ebay for old mobo's. A lab especially should be chock full of em.

catndhat

I dont care... i think thats pretty sexy...

Sorshha

I would totally do this for a computer lab that was separate from my bedroom. I would also add different colored LEDs all over it. that combo would make it look like the beta edition of the BORG.

segamanxero

NOT ORIGINAL AT ALL. I've seen this a lot.

SinAmos

He can stick his RAM in my motherboard anyday...

Sorshha

I bet that if you cooked a motherboard at a few degree above the melting point of solder, those components would just fall off but why bother.

Just take a bunch of high res photos and make none toxic wallpaper

nospamsam

It a Borg cube turned inside out! Where's that POA 7 of 36 DD chick at anyway...fucking slacker borg bitches.

VideoVampire

But are they all properly grounded?

aR-Tard

It would only be awesome if all those were actually on and running parallel to do some cracking job. :P

I guess this is too nerdy even for the geekest of the geeks.

Also, it kinda looks like the guy is living on a huge garbage dumpster or something.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

What about the floor and ceilings? They are just not nerd enough!

lulu321

Hmm, looks kinda like some walls I made, except, I used human skulls.

capitalass

You could easily hide stuff within those motherboards. Like keys, flash drives, DS games, it would be like an easter hunt, but with electronics.

MrPuppet

I thought the RAM-turned-into-keychain was an epic failure, until I came across this

discounteggroll

cant say i've ever seen anyone do this before... brilliant idea, not so good for the chicks(at least most hot ones).

@Sorshha:
And that's exactly what I did to your mother... board.

tehdahl