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Jello iMacs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.

webslacker writes " First they looked like Jello, now these kids compete to make the most realistic iMac out of Jello. The weirdest thing is, this contest was school sponsored. " my school never did anything nearly that cool.

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  1. Sponsored by... by Mooset · · Score: 2

    Actually, according to the article, it sounds like Apple did put most of the money forward for this. The main trick in the event, sponsored by the school and Apple computers, was finding enough structural support to keep the sculpture together. I think it's rather cheesy of them, sort of like the giant iMac balloons they paid to have placed on top of many school buildings.

  2. Been there by Straker+Skunk · · Score: 2

    I actually had a chance to see this in person. Nothing really impressive. Most of the entries were massive albeit formless blobs of Jell-O that didn't resemble any piece of computer equipment (nor an iMac for that matter *grin*). The only one that came close was frozen, or at least it had some major anti-jiggle countermeasures. Oh, and it had a real keyboard and mouse too :-P

    I didn't hang around to see the winner. By the way, what the article and the header forgot to mention was that the grand prize to all this craziness was a brand-new iMac. Not that MIT students make things out of Jell-O just for the heck of it, ya know }:-)

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