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The Wii Laptop
An anonymous reader writes "This Wii laptop was 3 months in the making and cost around £300. Check out the Ben Heck forums for more information." The insides look a little bit wobbly to me, but you sure gotta respect the hack.
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If this went into production it might go a long way towards curing vitamin D deficiencies in isolated socially inept recluses.
Ben Heck has made about 8 different laptops out of every console ever made. Why is this one being posted?
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The thing is, with Ben Heck all he has to do is attract the attention of one or two people with some cash about it and he has made a pretty good profit on it. They aren't mass produced items that have to appeal to most of the population but rather rare, specialty items that if he finds even one buyer he has made money.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
[Zoidberg voice] Houray! We are discussing youtube videos on slashdot! Now it might be time to show off my LARGER model of a slight smaller original model the thing I made and posted on youtube to show off!!! Finally recognition of my geniality!! It will be MINEEE!!!
[Fry] But can I play wii while I'm walking around?
[Zoidberg] No... You don't have your arms free while you are carrying it
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Next time you post a video on the internet make sure you vacuum the floor.
Also try relaxing before filming it so you don't sound like you've just ran marathon.
Thank goodness for Coral CDN. As it turns out, it's a YouTube video so viewing the actual forum post isn't really worth it.
I often think that as well with the hacks. All that time and effort to put it in a different case/shell/etc. I certainly can appreciate it to some extent, but mostly I just think 'Really?'
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It was posted to the benheck.com forums, but I don't think it was actually Ben Heck. My first clue was that this Wii based laptop is bulkier than Ben's XBox 360 Laptop, my second clue was that Ben Heck doesn't sound like a 15 year old British kid, and my third clue was that I didn't think Ben Heck would use the handle OMGpedobear on his own forums.
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my question is If he can make a WORKING laptop out of anything ... why doesnt he work for dell???? they can use the help >_>
Summary should include link to this article made back in 2007.
interactive hologram, or it didn't happen.
The wii is a very small system. What I find impressive is when he takes much larger systems that run pretty hot and find ways to rebuild them into much smaller form factors.
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Except it's not Ben Heck, it's 'OMGpedobear'.
This link goes to Ben Heck's version (credit to this post from further down the page). It's considerably smaller and better-built.
Considering that you can run Linux on a Wii, and the Wii has built-in wireless, it's quite possible.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
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"What ith the point?"! Ath he clearly demonthrateth, thith Wii Laptop Mod ith tho thuper thecthy! Focthy chickth jutht love thith!
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Another clue is that 5 seconds into the video he says "It's built out of expanded PVC, like Ben's"
What with being about 5x8" and maybe 3 lbs plus another 3 lb power supply.
The point is like in any other hobby: because to the person indulging in said hobby, it's fun.
It doesn't have to be fun to anyone else; I don't find anything entertaining about knitting, yet millions knit because they like to. Good for them.
De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum
What with being about 5x8" and maybe 3 lbs plus another 3 lb power supply.
Maybe if he squeezed a balance board in there, somewhere, it would be an achievement.
Don't you know Gameboy?
Going by the picts the Wii lapy appears to be quite thinner than the 360 lapy
& needed to wack up some opioids, drop some benzos or had the DTs 'n needed the hair of the dog or something. Or ran out of ciggies & didn't find any bumpers on the footpath ot front. Who knows, I assume he's just human like the rest of us ('Speak for your self' my red n' tan Kelpy just nodded)
Someone told me the Wii remote has 2 or 3 of those electronic surface mount 'nano' gyros similar to what those Sedgeway thingos have.
Well, it would still be kinda cool to have alongside a bunch of the old Nintendo classics they offer. ... wait.. huge GBA, heh.
No need for motion sensor there, just a classic gamepad and you got yourself a
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Thanks for the idea, Bro' !
Slinks off to program up Wii Knitting and make a fortune !.
Squirrel!
Why?
Or you know.... you could get a laptop and emulators ;) and you can get a lot more games and systems.
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