Hardware Reuse Contest Entries Revealed

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.

Comments

To find the pictures

[b00m3rang]

Follow the links under 'Kunst' and 'Funktion' on the right side bar.

Babelfish translation..

[cmacmanus]

Click here for a machine translation of the site for you English readers.

Nice one

[imsabbel]

http://www.heise.de/ct/machflott/projekte/56016
Thats a nice hard disc bike :)

I believe that's a keyboard limitation

[Mustang Matt]

It seems like most newer keyboards don't have the problem of recognizing too many keys at once. I remember playing mortal kombat on my old 386 with two people on the keyboard and the trick wasn't skill, but to press enough buttons to keep your opponent's key presses from being recognized.

Re:Recycling Ram

[Anonymous Coward]

I think that the best thing about that project is its name: Arbeitsspeicherschlüsselanhänger

Re:nice one

[Anonymous Coward]

Speaking...
...four languages - is an interpreter
...three languages - is an interested
...two languages - is usual
...one language - is american

categories translated

[Living WTF]

artistic
- objective sculptures
- shape, light and sound objects
- symbolic stuff
- flat objects
- environment
- jewelry
- fancy stuff

functional
- computer equipment
- furniture
- home and garden
- kitchen equipment
- light engineering
- measurement engineering
- robots and models
- sports and toys
- sound and picture
- clocks
- miscellaneous