damage
Cameras
Hideous Rusted Camera is Ugly Like a Fox
8:45AM Dan Nosowitz | This decrepit-looking camera is actually disguised in preparation for a trip overseas: It’s intentionally damaged and taped up on the surface, but is actually in perfect working order to mislead potential thieves. Clever! [MAKE] More »
Computers
New MacBooks Will Totally Tell Mum If You Take Them Swimming
7:38PM John Herrman | The new MacBook and MacBook Pro don’t just want to impress you with their fancy new fabrication techniques, unibody designs and bolstered performance: they want to make you more honest, at least when it comes to reporting water damage. According to the service manuals, the new line of MacBooks include submersion sensors, designed to indicate if the laptops have been exposed to excessive levels of moisture and/or dropped in your toilet. More »
Computers
Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop’s Keyboard Rather Easily
9:20AM Jason Chen | You’d think a laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project would, I don’t know, account for the fact that it’s being used by a child? A child that likes to tear crap apart? Stuff like keyboards? No? Which is why people are seeing keyboards being ripped up rubber piece by rubber piece. A few of the commenters in the forums (no doubt just regular folks buying them for their kids) say that their units were developing rips within days. If this is happening in the relatively safe conditions in the US, how are these laptops going to fare in the harsh conditions they were supposedly designed for? [Laptop.org] More »
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iPod touch Passes Gentle Scratch Test
11:15PM Charlie White | Look out, iPod touch! There comes a scratch test with a safety pin, a car key and then even a razor blade. But this tester doesn’t seem too hell-bent on damaging his precious touch. Would a jackhammer scratch it? How about a blowtorch? We could run over it for you, guy—that might help. But still, this touch is a lot tougher than that first iPod nano we got, looking like a skating rink after about six hours. [YouTube] More »
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Scratched Disc? Banana to the Rescue
5:30AM Charlie White | There are a variety of scratch removal devices for CDs and DVDs, but whoever thought of using such a readily available in prosaic device, that proof of creation itself, the everyday banana? Watch the video to see how to render your videos suddenly watchable, using banana goo and the banana’s waxy peel to miraculously fix that Netflix disc that arrived at your house looking like a skating rink. [Neatorama] More »
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9:15AM Seamus Byrne | I’ve seen this happen over the years, and it isn’t pretty if it’s your own screen. But one of our readers shows us a little DIY for fixing this damage in the video above. Almost TOO easy, if you ask me… though I guess fitting a magnet to a drill isn’t the simplest of hacks.
Is this fix old news, or is this one clever SOB? -Seamus Byrne
Thanks Mike.
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DIY fix for magnet damaged CRTs
9:15AM Seamus Byrne | I’ve seen this happen over the years, and it isn’t pretty if it’s your own screen. But one of our readers shows us a little DIY for fixing this damage in the video above. Almost TOO easy, if you ask me… though I guess fitting a magnet to a drill isn’t the simplest of hacks.
Is this fix old news, or is this one clever SOB? -Seamus Byrne
Thanks Mike.
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