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iPad + Macintosh Plus = Crazy Visualizer Helmet
An anonymous reader writes "I would like to share with you a helmet I made out of a Macintosh Plus and an iPad. Essentially, I purchased a Macintosh Plus on ebay, removed the inner parts, cut a hole in the bottom of the case, inserted the inner padding of a bicycle helmet (cut to fit), and cut a slot for the iPad to slide in. The iPad's thinness allows for plenty of room for the user's head and the inner helmet keeps the Macintosh situated properly. What started as a project for my sculpture class has now become a part of my good friend Kid Chameleon's DJ set and a way for us to showcase our visuals in a new way during live performances."
Was that really Slashdot-worthy? A douchey meaningless video with too loud music I had to fast-forward to get to the point, with the "OHMIGOD this is the greatest thing ever" Also sprach Zarathustra music to stroke your own ego, "look at this great thing I invented, I managed to use a knife to cut holes and shit"?
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Hipsters + ruined mac plus + horrible music copying daft punk.
I didn't think Lord Canti would look so metro.
Max Headroom has been replaced by Mac Headroom. Well, that's progress for ya.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
I swear it wasn't me!
I can accept using digital turntables or computerized mixing and effects in DJing. It's just a fact of life. Technology progresses, and the users of that technology progress too. But your friend "Kid Chameleon" has really lousy song selection and no stage presence, at least one of which is necessary for any good DJ. In this video, he putz around with the equipment, BSing with a few people, then finally plays his lame intro. It isn't even until a good 45 seconds in that he finally puts on the helmet, but then he just bops around in front of his Mac with a beat with no energy.
Technology changes, and we have to live with it. Those who don't are bound to be considered dinosaurs, while those who adapt lead us ever onward. I think the helmet is a beautifully constructed realization of this fact. While technology progresses, it is up to us individuals to bridge the gap between old and new, and sometimes bridging that gap results in really fucking stupid shit like this.
Just some fucking idiot bouncing around to bitch noise.
This has to be the stupidest thing Ive seen so far this year. It looks like a lot of work went into it, but it still looks fucking stupid.
DJing an event, with a mac on your head, dressed like your going to a piano recital, will NOT get you laid. Ohh and the music sucks.
Fugly.
'nuff said.
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- I think he looks very silly...
*Tries a Dell laptop*
- Now that's better!
Bicycle helmet padding? $20
Used Mac Plus? $60
Ipad? $500
Watching your wannabe friend look like a retard on the internets? Priceless.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
This.
I clicked on the article because I thought he made some sort of virtual reality helmet with the iPad screen facing inside. _That_ would have been cool and /. worthy. This is just some stupid faux-geek-styled mac-fanboi crap.
Posting AC because calling anything Apple faux-geek (which most everything they make nowadays is, gone are the days of the true Apple geeks) risks getting the good old troll slamhammer from the faux geeks and wannabe nerds who frequent this site.
"iPad + Macintosh Plus =..." The jokes just write themselves. I won't even try, it's just too easy.
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I don't understand how the tags "humor", [hard]hack", or "story" apply to this.
i'd call this as a serious needs for larger mental hospitals and meds that put you into totally vegetative state
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So it's every apple product since the ipod - basically featureless and only tolerable to those with a thick eardrum, but hey, it sure is shiny.
of Dans le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip..
If you're going to post something on Slashdot as original and newsworthy, it's best not to rehash something done better elsewhere and claim originality.
Alright it's cute but the novelty wears off fast I bet, I'm guessing it's not the lightest thing to have on your, not very cool, especially when you constantly move around and sweat. Sure, the non-geeks and drug-induced crowd will find it fascinating, I would too depending on the moment, but it's not that great. Maybe I saw the headline and expected a lot more.
All glory to Arstotzka!
This is NOT a story. So many comments are being modded 'Troll' when they are completely justified here. So, a guy puts an iPod in an old mac box and moves around. There's a) virtually NO creativity b) it's NOT interesting c) there are so many, much more worthwhile stories out there (like the net reduction in our freedoms in the past decade). To date, I grade this the worst story ever on Slashdot
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Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
He's going to Chico State...
for art.
But there is potential.
In the spirit of tooting one's own horn ... this is reminiscent of my cyborg music performance project robotcowboy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuuJkE789ag :D
Today's nerd girls are cuter and have bigger tits than when I was in college.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Since you were actually generating the music via suit and your movements, I'd give you 1000000 times the Internets I'd give the other guy. His was a "hack" while yours is a TRUE HACKER.
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Let's just let the spammers post directly to the front page, shall we? *sheesh!*
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Those were very easily amused ravers. That looks like a rave at the high-school gym level. They didn't even have good lighting, let alone naked girls in cages.
That hat makes you look like an idiot.
Gym, tan, laundry
Twice. Once for the "high school hacker's notebook", and once for the 2004 followup to Neal Stephenson's "In The Beginning Was The Command Line". And you want something better? Fine. I built this last year.
Also, your logic is wrong. When you say something is inversely proportional to the lack of something, you are saying it is directly proportional.
Also, I wouldn't call this the "true geek spirit", but that's a matter of taste. I'd say it more of a rave-inspired thing.
Also, I don't think you're actually sorry.
Hater haters gonna hate.