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The Neuron Drive
billy writes "After two weeks of planning, painting, cutting, and slicing, I have completed my idea for the Neuron Drive, the world's first 80GB canvas. It is a fully functional USB hard-drive. The Neuron Drive contains 2 fans and 1 Maxtor 80GB hard-drive. It is fully functional as a hard-drive and both fans spin."
A serious work of art with a joke for a disk drive.
What would the MTBF of this painting be?
Oh well, what the hell...
Indeed. If you want some really geeky art, check this out. For the three wild/biological looking images there, the computational background, chemistry and physics behind their creation are fairly impressive. The first two are of retina, while the third is hippocampus.
Disclaimer: the images are mine.
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The colors are well-chosen for the theme. The oil execution really evokes a sense of "brains." I appreciate the theme and the style.
I think the neurons should each have a drive in them-- maybe a USB thumb drive each. That could eliminate the fans. You could put a USB hub in the back. Neuron Drive owners could RAID their neurons together.
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What about flush mounting the drive with a Plexiglas cover (yeah warranty voiding) and do a partial cover with come of the oil paint for a more integrated look.
I do like the idea of peripherals as art, and with the slew of laptops auto magically turning into wall tops this is an interesting addition to it all, For future art projects a wall top with the interesting hard drive (like the one I described above) displayed in a full height canvas would be a very interesting art meets technology project.
With this you could have the laptop screen saver be various alternative images to fill in the hole it created and change the art work it is in. (family pictures would definitely be a lame use of this kind of art hack.
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Most of the time, a series of drive deaths can be traced to all drives coming from the same supplier, or the same shipment. Most deaths are caused by shipping or otherwise something in-between the manufacturer and the user.
It is not uncommon to see UPS drop an entire pallet of drives from the truck, and pick them back up and continue on as if it were a shipment of basketballs or something.
Not that I consider Maxtor the best at this time, but I do not consider it the worst either. Drive companies tend to go through phases of poor reliability and then good reliability every 3-7 years or so.
(Mods: Yes this is offtopic. If you want to talk about a painting with a hard drive glued on, be my guest)
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