He’s not as sexy as Ryan Gosling — then again, who is? — but damn it, he’s a hard drive with a mysterious past, a sweet jacket and an awesome soundtrack. More »
There’s a word for this story, and that word is “ouch”. A New Zealander is seeking compensation from Toshiba after a spike of metal flew out of his laptop and impaled his hand. More »
That wasn’t an order — you don’t have to, but three brave Aussies are about get into a rickety rickshaw to do just that, for charity — and with a twenty-first century technology twist to go with their dilapidated drive. More after the jump. More »
When a loud motorcycle woke up Mark Nesdoly’s young daughter, he decided he had enough. Instead of taking a baseball bat to the offending Harley, Nesdoly used his engineering skills to design the Noise Snare, a video detection system for loud vehicles. More »
Instructables has posted a guide to breaking down 3.5″ hard drives and creating a wall clock out of the pieces. The guide calls for a bunch of the washers used to separate hard drive platters as well as the innards of a cheapie clock the builder had lying around. It’s a pretty easy project, but what’s remarkable is how cool it looks by the end. You wouldn’t know it’s made of hard drives; it just looks like an industrial sort of sculpture that tells time. [Instructables]
