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."

Comments

Good TImes

[SteelFist]

So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?

Re:Good TImes

[FinestLittleSpace]

wwWWWoeorkss ffdffoooor meeEEEEEEeeeeeeee

Re:Good TImes

[FidelCatsro]

A tower case filled with 24 year old single Isla Malt sounds like a nice companion project

Re:Good TImes

[iezhy]

if I would have made home server for every bottle of wiskey i drank... i would be running pretty powerfull boewulf cluster by now :)

Re:Good TImes

[mrm677]

So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?

My last computer build started at 3am after coming back from the bars completely hammered. I was completely wasted. In the morning, everything still worked except one case fan was backwards.

Re:Good TImes

[iphayd]

So, you work for Gateway, eh?

Cheat!

[LiquidCoooled]

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.

portable, and tastes nice too...

[joe 155]

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...

for what?

[Quixote]

for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server.

Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...

There's always a good use for empty bottles

[TubeSteak]

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.

Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.

I'm assuming this is a joke, but juuuuussssssstttttt in case it would be a bit cruel to stuff even a Betta into anything less than 4 gallons. And a goldfish should not be put into any tank smaller than 10 gallons with an extra gallon for each additional fish. I can't stand the attitude of fish being disposable pets.

Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles

[TheRaven64]

A fish in a bottle would likely suffocate in a short time. Bottles taper towards the top, and so there is almost certainly not enough surface area to get enough oxygen into the water from the air.

What's with the hole?

[Phat_Tony]

They cheated! They cut a hole in the side of the bottle.

They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

A chip in a bottle!

A whisky server...

[ToteAdler]

Would that make it a bar tender?

Re:Nice

[Deitheres]

For a small fee, I will drink the whiskey for you... giving you a perfectly usable emptpy bottle! You may then mod to your hearts content!

PC in a bottle

[ikejam]

aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..

Re:Any more info on the motherboard?

[TubeSteak]

SBC stands for: Single Board Computer

3.5" and 5.25" seem to be standard sizes.
Of course, 3.5" doesn't really mean 3.5"

The specs I looked at (first google result)say that the
3.5" SBCs are actually 5.75" Length x 4" Width (146mm x 101.6mm)

Try one of these

[nurb432]

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...

Re:Try one of these

[oculuses]

If you're that worried about dropping your computer hard enough to break the glass, then perhaps you should lay off the wiskey. :)

Right...

[no_barcode]

"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?

Just thinking out loud...

[SleepyHappyDoc]

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. ;)

Next Project...

[Anonymous Coward]

...PDA in a hip flask.

If anyone cares...

[Anonymous Coward]

In places where a formal title is needed, it's usually "Master Glassblower", although there may be the occasional Journeyman working along side where there's enough demand for more than one. If you poke around larger research institutions, there's usually one hiding out somewhere, who handles all of the custom glass blowing, cutting, polishing, optical gluing (EG, for custom laser prisms), and shaping needs. In larger cities, check under "glassblowers" in the Yellow Pages.

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.

Re:I have a better use for empty whiskey bottles

[macdaddy357]

An empty whiskey bottle is good for hittin' arseholes over the head when they call us Irishmen a bunch of violent drunks!