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Creative use for empty whiskey bottles
Japala writes "You might have seen computers built inside of toasters, radios, garden lamps etc. As motherboards keep getting smaller and smaller the possibilites on where you can embed then increases. As it turns out, you can get them to fit inside an empty glass bottle. Whisky PC for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server."
So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?
I fill them up with more whiskey (and then empty them again).
I thought they were going to try and rollup the motherboard and unfurl the memorysticks and processor once inside.
Instead they just cut a hole in it.
liqbase
You can store your booze inside your PC case. I've not seen this done yet, but I did know a guy who used the on/off switch on top of his tower IBM-AT as an ashtray (which filled the inside of the switch with ashes).
It looks like a nice mod. I don't personally drink so a whiskey bottle would look strange. Or funny. Maybe I should buy a bottle of whiskey just to try it out :)
well, it is certainly more portable and better looking than your average tower. I think that there could well be a market for these things, in all different types of bottles or shaped glass cases... If you wanted to go all out you could put a plasma screan on the side... set it to show the original label as a screan saver if you want to go all out...
I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...
The article just says that the board is an "industrial 3.5" SBC board". Does anybody know the model number, and where one could buy this board?
It'll stay cool, if it gets too many requests it'll just tell you to piss off.
And if it does go down, hey, its only passed out, and not burning in flame.
I don't get it.
Put a fish in it :O)
I've got an empty 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels that one of my alky loving friends gave to me. I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Back on topic, now you don't have to go to your liquor cabinet on those long lan party binges
Is there any site that lists all the motherboards and components you can use to build these tiny machines? I've seen mini-itx.com, but it's very hard to navigate to specific boards, cases, psu's etc. It's mostly a news site, and it seems like if you don't keep up with it every day you'll have no idea what's up. So, where do you go to find these little things? I'd love to build a PC based alarm clock.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
A chip in a bottle!
Excellent mod work. I really like the mods which make PCs look like something other than PCs but then that's one of those personal preference things.
Again, very nice work.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
And what does he actually do with the Whiskey???
My 0.02 cents
Would that make it a bar tender?
No...! Nothing less than Single Malt is good enough for my computer. Make that a cask.
Arrrrgh!! The first few pages, I'm all "oooh aaah" and then the little wavy bloze window icon comes and I projectile vomit. There should be a warning page. How am I ever supposed to enjoy whisky again? And don't say "drink it" you flippant bastards. I am traumatized and I deserve sympathy and you know it.
I like the concept, but cutting holes for fans was cheap. Everyone knows that whiskey bottles belong in the fridge.
the high level of quality of many commercial software products...
aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..
From TFA:
professional glass grinder man
Gotta admit, I've never heard of that profession before.
Anywho, what mobo is his using? I just couldn't seem to locate it in his notes...
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
ow!
Whisky bottles also make good bongs.
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.83/it.A /id.369/.f
I bet it would fit just fine.
But a breakable glass case? While it looks cool, no thanks...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Fill the bottles to different levels, form a band, and recreate Windows theme sounds.
While your at it, rebrand Windows Vista:
"Windows Redneck" with the slogan "You ain't ever seed Windows this clean(tm)"
"Windows Whiskey" with the slogan "Computing, soo you cann drinnk at the sssspeed of your buss, busi, work.(tm)"
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
Obviously you helped him empty that whiskey bottle.
I am Spartacus
Seriously, I can't believe I'm the first to think of the entertainment of running Wine in a wine bottle.
It's not a true whiskey-computer till that sucker's whiskey-cooled!
Remember kids, with great power comes great opportunity to abuse that power
You should be able to drop one of those SIMM sized linux modules in the mouth of a Mickey's Big Mouth. If only they had an equally small wireless module, you might fit the whole thing including enough AA batteries to run for a few days and have a working linux bottle with the cap on.
Should have used a full bottle of cooking oil, in order to build on this article:
Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil
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The metal case of a desktop computer and the internal metal panels of notebooks are designed to protect the internal components from RF interference and keep electrostatic charges on the outside, where they can be safely dissipated. I see no such protection for this mod — does anyone have any idea (I mean a proper one) just how vulnerable this machine is in a glass case?
..Finland is a nation which likes a drink (& I hold in high esteem)..just surprised that he didn't use a bottle of Finlandia...mmm, Finlandia...clean distilled taste..
Hesburger PC! That's what I'll do...if only they had Hesburger in the UK!!
Not to worry, I shall just have to go there again on a _cough_ research trip..
No really...cool...now fill it with a non conducting cooled liquid.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
You can get rid of the hard drive and use a compact flash card instead.
I'm currently doing a project based on Damn Small Linux. www.damnsmalllinux.org
The result uses less power and therefore generates less heat to get rid of.
www.mini-box.com is a good source of boards, power supplies and ide-cf adapters.
Next step: Wrapping a flask around a mouse.
Instead of watercooling your next build, why not use whisky?
"I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."
Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?
Flambe!!!
*Bananas Foster not included.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
AP News (12:44pm - EST) - Tragic Death of Geek
Tragically a young geek lost his (albeit lonely) life last night after starting a fire in his room of his parent's house. It would seem that the young and impetuous geek decided after reading an article on the technology news website "Slashdot," that building a computer out of a used whiskey bottle would be a good idea. However, upon emptying the bottle (and his bladder several times), the poor geek forgot to wash the bottle out and promptly started a fire the moment he turned his new "Whiskey PC" on and sadly, perished in the blaze.
Memorial services will be held in your MMORPG of choice in that "one zone."
I tried that once with a tequila bottle, but never made it all the way to the finished product. Did mention the bottle was full of tequila when I started?
I lost my sig...
This mod, while very cool, would make an excellent semi-portable monitoring device, say, to keep an eye on the stockroom at your restaurant or whatever. Stuff some kind of thin webcam in the bottle neck, lay it on it's side, headless (cords to the wall, somehow) and you'd have an inconspicuous camera that can store images/video locally or ftp them somewhere remote (then you could skip the laptop drive altogether and run the whole thing off the CF card, perhaps allowing a smaller bottle), and looks like an empty bottle on a shelf. Extra points if you mount it in a wine rack with a few real bottles.
;)
Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool.
Stasis is death. Embrace change.
OK, it's not THAT bad, but it's a long long long ways from what I'd call a "whisky lover's whisky."
Then again, at least you're not going to regret cutting into such a bottle.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
It doesnt look like you can plug in speakers. Cool mod but no fun without sound and 3d graphics.
Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
Listen, I'm not opposed to people sticking computers in every conceivable container - but that's not creative anymore. In fact, whenever a geek is faced with a generic item he (or she, hah!) doesn't have any immediate use for, the first thought is now always "Hey, I could stick a computer in there".
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Free as in beer?
Feel free to send your single malts my way. I am happy to empty the bottle for you...
bong? ahh, memories of college.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
I, for one, welcome our new sleek, technologically superior, quiet whiskey bottles.
But.. does this run Linux?
Won't somebody think of the children? I mean really! Increased sales of whiskey bottles will certainly harm them!
1. Buy a lot of whiskey bottles.
2. Mod them to host computers
3. ????
4. Profit!
Careful transporting this one if you bring it to a friends house; be sure to put it in the trunk. You wouldn't want a cop to give you an open container ticket :*)
So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?
Are you suggesting that there's another way to build a computer?
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
On Page 3 he tells you he used a 60W mini-tix PSU.
Since you can see (Pg. 4) that he's using a powerbrick, he coulda gone with the PicoPSU
Wouldn't have been as cramped in that bottle.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
"No officer, I'm not drinking, I'm analysing radio signals to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence."
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
On the last page there's a picture of a Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" case (one of the best-looking cases Apple ever used, IMHO) that he desecrated by putting an AMD64 inside. He lit it garishly, too-- makes me wonder where the "Type R" stickers and whale-tail fin are. Ugh.
..I'm not an alky.. my shervers been shlashdotted, i wash jusht adding more bandwid..
-AlexC
Nope, not me.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
oh man.. imagine a beowulf cluster of thi*BURP*
It would be more impressive if, in the process of modding the whiskey bottle, it still could be used for its original purpose.
really drill just ONE hole in the bottle for cooling? If the air was going to go in there, where did he think it was going to come out? (or vice versa).
Eventually he worked out that he needed some holes elsewhere, but really!!
...PDA in a hip flask.
In practice, "great wizard" is far more commonly used than any formal title, because if you can't buy the right shape piece of glass off-the-shelf, then you need to find someone to grovel before. I know of at least one research project that was derailed for almost three years when the previous master retired "unexpectedly" at the ripe age of 80, and his 35-year old Journeyman assistant who got promoted didn't have half a century of expertise under his belt. Requests that the old guy used to craft flawlessly in one day, the new guy sometimes needed four to get what they wanted exactly right... or worse, almost but not quite exactly right.
Which just goes to show, loss of critical personnel isn't only a problem in IT.
I've only had whiskey on three occasions, but now I dream about it every day. I have a slightly addictive personality.
Take a glass cilinder, then take SBC with memory, cables and all stuff mounted, and place it inside small asbestos bag. Then push that bag into bottle, bag mouth hole to cylinder bottom. Then heat up cylinder mouth, and fuse it into bottle neck. Asbestos bag will protect board from the heat. Now you just pull asbestos bag through bottle neck, pull the wires attached to it through bottle neck, and voila - you have intact bottle with SBC inside, and cables to connect outside.
;-)
No air flow inside a bottle though, so you need to choose fairly cool CPU for this.
To bad i don't have any friends with glass blower skills and facility to try it
Bananas Foster not included.
That requires rum, not scotch.
This sig is false.
A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with a n 'e',
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it's spelt with an 'e'
but in Scotland
it's real 'Whisky'.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an 'e',
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of 'Scotch Whisky'.
Stanley Bruce.
20th April 2004
MI6 has a nondescript rock for you.
Compact, organized, simple, and clean cut! I want one of these!
Still, it looked tricky getting that second part to fit in the bottle. Just make sure you don't drink your PC.
I'm not quite finished with my latest McAfee's Benchmark
For the drinker that has everything.
Whiskey PC Tech support Person: Sir, could you please log on to your Whiskey? ... um ... where's the "whis" key? I don't see any "whis" key on this damn thing ...
Clueless user: Ugh
Over Jesus? Maybe not forever, just for now?
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
If its a single-malt whiskey, do you have to put a single-core CPU?
I will create a sig when innovation restarts in the U.S.
As a Kentuckian, I have to say using anything other than Maker's Mark or Wild Turkey would just be sacrilage. Nonetheless, a cool mod. =)
This sig rocks the casbah.
Unfortunately small fast fans are noisy. Perhaps the answer would be to cheat: remove the base, create a false base with ducting around the circumference, and allow the air to flow in at the bottom and out at the back.
Pining for the fjords
"My current machine is an Apple PowerMac G4 Quicksilver filled with an A64 system." I guess mac users do know how to build simple pc's
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Just in case anyone is interested...
;)
The article blurb gets it right once and wrong once. I checked TFA and he used a Ballantine's bottle. Ballantine's is a Scotch, which is a type of whisky (without the E). Other whiskies/whiskeys use different spellings:
Scotch whisky
Irish whiskey
Rye whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
Canadian whisky
Bourbon
And now you know the rest of the story.
A nice touch on this would have been to route the power to the cap, maybe with just a small spring switch that barely protruded above the rim such that taking the cap off would release the spring and start the computer up.
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You could sell it in a brown paper bag.
n/t
Give that bottle 3-5 years and it will be illegal at the current rate of DRM/"trusted computing". It may just be the start of the new era of bootlegging so that we can enjoy computers the way we use to. I'm thinking speakeasy.net would be a great sponsor here.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Trying to tell the state trooper that the Whiskey bottle on the floor is really a PC doesn't sound like it would fly.
Perfect carry-case for this mod
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
This is the 21st century MSN Messenger in a Bottle.
Now, after you drink the whiskey you know that there will be a bus handy on the motherboard for when you do your computing heh... I love how the PC is built into the bottle. I however would LOVE to see a PC built into an old UNIX manual has anyone seen such a case mod?
-- Josh
"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!" - Pete Conrad
A free AirSeat. Anyone out there like me and install aftermarket struts you felt were too stiff? I did when I put my KYB GR-2's in my Subaru Legacy. Gave me headaches I suspect were micro concussions.
So I built this. It takes the following (free) things to build:
- Air envelope (from mail order packaging)
- two plastic liquor bottles
- Duct tape
- Yellow Pages
Procedure:
1) Duct tape the bottles together
2) Duct tape the air envelope to the top of the bottles
3) shove the thing under your seat
4 - optional if needed) slide yellow pages underneath for correct height.
I think I had finished off the liquor bottles when I got the idea. Works perfectly, no headaches anymore (cept hangover).
Plugged in the PSU connector plug one row out. Most of the capacitors on the board exploded when I switched it on. Resolved never to drink and assemble PCs again. :-)
- Paul
My god, this patent madness just never stops. What does Creative Labs have against my whiskey bottles? I was gonna use them for candle holders, but now I gotta give 'em up? Arrrgh.
That's it, I'm joining the EFF.
--
Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
The choice of weapon caliber that you use on it is optional.
Best of all it's totally "old skool".
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Ne1 ever thought to build one of these but seal it with some glue and fill the bottle with that oil (some past /. article about that)??
With a motion detector thingy these actions could be defined:
- empty the browser cache if the user is pouring the bottle
- switch firewall rules to maximum security if a finger is poked down the hole
- restart the Whiskuter if user is shaking the bottle
- go to hibernation mode if bottle is knocked over
versus the Bob Harris For relaxing times, make it Suntory times.
Who's your user, program?
Puts a whole new meaning to bottleneck!
Did you get that thing I sent ya?
... considering I used to just piss in the empty bottle and give it to my friends =P
Wow, anal destruction? How'd they know my college nickname... errr wait..
There are more and better mods out there: http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-case- mods/ Just a few.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Come on, who would want to drink that Ballentines crap anyway? Ardbeg or Glenmorangie, sure, even a Jameson would be fine. But Ballentines?? Get a life!!
This image is offensive to the Cult of Mac. We demand Microsoft and Intel punish those responsible.
Wow..I can't wait for the whisky company to step in and try to administer the DMCA against this endeavour. Remember FedEx with their boxes?
Surely they want you to get drunk off your ass and end up on America's Craziest Videos, not use it for gadgetry and have a post on Slashdot about it.
(Fo'shizzle, Seymour Crazizzle.)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
My roomates once hired a stripper that had some pretty creative uses for a vodka bottle ;-)
like everyone else. That is also an option.
Try this.Use a quart mason jar that the last batch of moonshine came in.Or a brown Coca-Cola bottle.;)
Geek Hillbilly
~~Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way
There's too much coke and too much smoke
Look what's going on inside you~~
In Soviet Russia, Vodka casemods YOU!
Free as in mason.
B***********'s is hardly whisky, it's like chewing on raw grain drenched in alcohol. And it's surely not whiskEy, since that's Irish. But it can be used to clean your monitor, keyboard, or the oil lamps of a classic sailing ship. Only, you'll have to do a lot of cleaning until the bottle is empty.
For drinking, i would recommand a fine Lowlands, like Rosebank or Bladnoch. You can also try a St. Magdalene, to make sure you won't have to bother getting a motherboard inside the bottle, since your budget will be totally spent on the booze.
Trust me, I work for the government.
When you have to hide your computer from your spouse in a whiskey bottle, you have a problem, and it's time for an Intervention.
...walking into things. (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
...into this.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing