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Hardware Reuse Contest Entries Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the quick-translators-will-get-insightful-mods dept.

teqo writes "The outstanding German computer magazine c't had a contest in which they challenged readers to submit their coolest recycling projects for obsolete hardware, and the entries have been revealed to the public now. There is an artsy and a practical category, and although it is in German, the pics make lots of submissions intuitively grokkable." (On the right hand side of the page, click the links beneath "Kunst" -- artistic -- and "Funktion" -- functional.) My favorite is the laptop with a solar-powered backlight.

3 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Babelfish translation.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mach quickly the scrap iron! Ja baby!
    Who wrote this translation engine? The German nihilist-nazis from 'Big Lebowski'? ;)

  2. Re:nice one by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would be easier if the site was actually readable to someone in the United States.

    Not to the intended readership, no. Much easier to read German than English if you are German, you know.

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  3. Hardware Obsolescence by Captoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do they have a precise definition of what constitutes "obsolete hardware?" If they're talking about functional obsolescence, then a calculator may not be obsolete for decades. A CD-R becomes obsolete the moment that someone copies an AOL CD. A Pentium 4 becomes obsolete the moment that it belongs to my grandmother.