Computers & Mobile

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Install OS X on a netbook

The new micro-sized “netbook” laptops that have popped up this year are quite nifty, but unfortunately for Mac users, none of them ship with OS X. Fortunately, while you wait for Apple to release their own model, you can hack most standard PC netbooks to run a patched version of OS X. Dan from Uneasy […]

Virtual worlds and physical space collide

Virtual worlds and physical space collide

“Control Structure” by Australian artist Sam Smith is a sculpture and interactive installation built from hoop pine plywood, maple plywood, polyester resin, fiberglass, an LCD monitor and other materials. From the description: “A large digital video zoom lens extrudes from one eye socket like a bionic appendage, while the other eye is caved in and […]

Briefcase computer

Briefcase computer

imp558 at the Hacked Gadgets forums writes– …I tend to do some wierd things being a long time technician and closet robotics enthusiast. Hopefully you guys will appreciate my portable desktop. After stuff I had laying around it cost me about $300. These pics don’t show the chrome trim around the monitor (added later), and […]

Liquid-suspended gaming PC

Liquid-suspended gaming PC

Soak It to Me: Inside Liquid-Suspended Gaming PC @ Wired– Looking for a beefy gaming rig, and don’t mind getting your hands a little wet? Hardcore Computer’s Reactor might just be the 100-pound computational monolith for you. Crafted from 2.5mm-thick aircraft aluminum and packed with powerful hardware, the Reactor is already a fairly striking and […]