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Cool Cases: Armor or Arcade?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-for-the-holidays dept.

It wouldn't be christmas without a couple of cool cases. An anonymous reader sent linkage to the 63rd issue of ZZZ online which has a ridiculously armored laptop. If thats not the right case for you, check out Arcade2000. I've been considering retrofitting an old game cabinet for a PC running an emulator, and stumbled upon it. At least its not as expensive as the armored case!

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  1. purpose of armored notebooks by Barbarian · · Score: 3

    It might not occur to most /. readers, but the armored notebooks aren't for reading /., or playing Quake XIXIV, or loading up X11, or fanatics that are worried about damage. They're for running on the well test rig. Or entering data on the seismic line. In other words, for real world applications where you don't need a PIII-999 to get it to work.

    The site that is linked here (review site) misses this point completely. If you have one of these, you're probably not exactly running an app. that stresses the CPU out.

  2. You missed the best story on that page by mattbee · · Score: 3

    The same link has a story about a company selling ray guns that would let police painlessly immobilize criminals in their tracks; much more interesting than an armoured laptop, I think you'll agree :-)

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  3. Reading the ZZZ magazine thing.... by Calle+Ballz · · Score: 3

    I was reading about the new laser device that transmits electric impulses to immobilize people. The new "phaser" so to speak.

    One thing didn't set right with me, if it makes all of the target's muscles contract at once, and that target is holding a gun.... what is going to stop the trigger finger from contracting? It would probably set off the gun... Immobilizing the villain would mean risking the lives of others. has anyone else thought of that?