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Aquarium Modcase

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-machine-running dept.

zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."

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  1. Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... by AEton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fishy go BZZZT!

    --
    We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
    1. Re:Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... by alib001 · · Score: 5, Funny

      .

      Oh no! Not dead plastic fish?

      Seriously, did you really think the whole case was filled with water?

  2. More living things in computer cases by mr.henry · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy put an ant farm in his case.

  3. A P4 could... by xanderwilson · · Score: 5, Funny

    boil a fish in twenty seconds.

    Fill it with grease and you've got yourself fried flounder.

    Say hello to the new dorm microwave.

    Alex.

    1. Re:A P4 could... by MattCohn.com · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hah! An AMD could do it in 4 seconds! Told you AMD was faster, you stupid Intel fanboys.

  4. Think Geek by macragge · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/

  5. Thinkgeek has been making these for ages by ithicine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thinkgeek has been selling these very things for ages. Same case, same aquarium kit. Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek? (apologies if it says in the article... my German is just a little rusty ;))

    1. Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages by Nodatadj · · Score: 5, Funny

      "my German is just a little rusty"

      Its very rusty.
      The article is in Danish for a start.

      And hey, maybe it was just another one of those Thinkgeek product placements that seem to have been appearing on /. over the last few days.

  6. What I would Actually like to see. by SubjunctiveSam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yawn.

    Here's an idea for a casemod that would actually impress me:

    Get some expensive pure water, some with NO corrosive dissolved oxygen, and completely electrically neutral, meaning no OH- and H+ ions. I realize that water is self-ionizing, so the removal of these ions might need to be continuous.

    Unpack, assemble, and run your awesome computer in a container full of this stuff.

    I don't care how expensive or chemically unfeasible that would be, but that would actually be impressive. I've heard of computers running submerged in vegetable oil before, since vegetable oil is made of large covalent molecules, but I don't care. I want an underwater computer.

  7. Macquariums with real fish! by bhny · · Score: 5, Informative

    people have been doing this for years with old macs

  8. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... by holt_rpi · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...would that be a school of fish?