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The Floating PowerBook
Pingsmoth writes "With the proliferation of laptops today, many replacing the traditional space-hogging desktop computer, this seems like a neat idea to free up even more square footage on your desk. It's the floating laptop, a 'stand,' if you will, that is invisible to the average user and just as functional as other traditional laptop stands. The obvious appeal of the 'Floating Laptop' is its aesthetic quality, especially when compared to some of the other stands out there, but it's also cheaper ($15) and only takes a half hour to build."
The only thing I know how to build is a computer. I don't know how to use REAL power tools!
Now I hoped there was some magical forcefield to carry my laptop attached to my belt floating along.
You surely can imagine my dissapointment here :(
If he is complaining about his current stand taking up "valuable desk space," then perhaps he should get rid of that random vase of junk on the left and clean up his desk a bit more often.
" Ta-Da! The finished project in action. It works prefectly."
Creator confirms there are minor typing problems with the unit.
...my experiments with a bath tub clearly show that powerbooks don't float.
If only there was a floating webserver with plenty of grunt and fat pipes so we could see the floating laptop...
Two scoops of ice cream, and two scoops of PowerBook.
Hate mail goes here!
hi mom!
Take powerbook outside. Add 1 gallon of gasoline. Ignite.
Magically, your desk space will be improved, and so will your productivity.
No longer will hours be wasted moving icons around or listening to gurgling sounds of email arriving.
Thank you.
I realise another 10,000 people have already pointed this out but since I can't see much scope for any further discussion.
He's built a shelf and took photos. This is not interesting, I can go around to my married mates houses and watch them build shelves if I wanted to. I don't.
It's a Shelf !!!!! Building shelves is not hard. It also looks crap.
I was hoping for the same. Or possibly levitation, which would have been really cool.
Loose things are easy to lose. You're getting your hair cut. They're going there to see their aunt.
Any guy in India can do better than this - his laptop can float above the desk without the screws. (being helf there by stream of purloined bank account data)
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
A floating laptop on a sunken webserver!
Sound waves should be free!
Or some simple wood scraps you can find at a home depot or something...
The project is rather unimpressive though... I mean an L joint or two and some cardboard? WOW how innovative and unique!
Next he'll show us his milk-crate sofa and cinderblock tv stand...
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
"i built a shelf"
dude.
A shelf it may be, but unlike those annoying PC shelves, this one just works.
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That's gonna take some reinforcing to take a 750:1 scale model of a whale...
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They are designed for a single CPU, single monitor, single keyboard...
:P
I have a Dual CPU machine (G5), and it works just as great. Not sure what happens if you have Two Dualcore CPUs though, that could be a real mess...
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
In one version you use Gorilla Glue to adhere the laptop to the back of a cat and buttered bread to the other.
The second version involves 4-8 very powerful magnets.
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
First we have a guy who spends 1.5 years building something you can already purchase and now we have a guy who thinks he's clever because he re-invented the shelf!
They must work for Microsoft
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Paper made out of sand would quickly wear down any pen or pencil that a person would try to use to write on it.
Next thing you know, you're going to try to tell me that there are such things as boys made out of paper, tops made out of boxes, melons and pitchers made out of water, mobiles made out of autos, and balls made out of feet, bases, and baskets.
Do you think that I am that gullible?
Well, I'm not; there's just no way that I can be turned into a gull.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana