Aquarium Modcase 200
zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."
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Yummy Goldfish for dinner. (Score:1)
Re:Yummy Goldfish for dinner. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Yummy Goldfish for dinner. (Score:2)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... (Score:5, Funny)
There are easier ways ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There are easier ways ... (Score:2)
Re:There are easier ways ... (Score:2)
Imagine yourself computing along, and getting that annoying power outage. You see water flowing back into the case via the air pump hose. Desperately you reach for the power cord nested deep behind the back of the computer, but no! Before you can pull the plug, you friendly local power company manages to restore power in record time! BZZT!
Can't read the article, so if he does have a backflow valve, good for him!
Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... (Score:5, Funny)
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Oh no! Not dead plastic [thinkgeek.com] fish?
Seriously, did you really think the whole case was filled with water?
Re:Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... (Score:2)
Re:Better have a high-quality surge suppressor... (Score:2)
This would be due to a bad ground somewhere. In my father's house one computer had this issue because of a power strip (he had chained two of them and then used a regular heavy duty extension cord). The bad power strip had a disconnected ground.
Concrete is conductive, and the neutral AC line can develop 10s and 100s of volts over l
This is cool BUT? (Score:1)
Re:This is cool BUT? (Score:2, Insightful)
Overclock your CPU and GPU... (Score:1)
Great... (Score:1, Interesting)
Watch out for Power Surges... (Score:1, Funny)
On the plus side, it would be a quick and easy way to make dinner. George Foreman, eat your heart out...
More living things in computer cases (Score:5, Informative)
/. did a story on that. (Score:2)
Re:More living things in computer cases (Score:2)
overclock your fish! (Score:2)
Re:overclock your fish! (Score:4, Funny)
A P4 could... (Score:5, Funny)
Fill it with grease and you've got yourself fried flounder.
Say hello to the new dorm microwave.
Alex.
Re:A P4 could... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A P4 could... (Score:5, Funny)
Teach a man to case-mod, and feed him for a lifetime.
Re:A P4 could... (Score:2)
But I want it now!
Re:A P4 could... (Score:3, Interesting)
Tropical Fish? (Score:1)
I thought (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I thought (Score:2)
Since the 18th July to be precise.
Is that liquid cooling ? (Score:1)
Hamster Pc Case !
Re:Is that liquid cooling ? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm way ahead of you there, been working on one for quite some time (with not too much success).
There are several issues with hamster cases. Firstly, hamsters/gerbils/mice/most rodents CHEW on everything, so I had to find a way to protect the pieces of the comp from the hamster (and vice/versa). Secondly, hamsters will even CHEW through most protection (including plastic), so I had to come up with yet another solution. Thirdly, hamsters need bedding, and they "go potty" in that bedding. Even in a well
Think Geek (Score:5, Informative)
Lian-Li Aquarium Window (Score:2)
I saw it set up in at a computer shop here in .au in late June. They sell the aquarium window [auspcmarket.com.au] as well.
Re:ThinkGeek is for tools and retards (Score:2)
Right (Score:1)
Can't we just agree ... (Score:1)
--LordKaT
FAKE FISH (Score:2)
Re:FAKE FISH (Score:2)
James
Re:FAKE FISH (Score:5, Informative)
Very efficient! (Score:4, Funny)
Not real fish! (Score:1)
Better get some tropical fish (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Better get some tropical fish (Score:2)
faraday cage means nothing anymore ? (Score:1, Insightful)
I thought a PC case was a metal box to stop EM radiation/interference etc surely cutting huge holes in your case isnt going to do much other than piss off the local Taxi firm,ham radio,cb,baby alarms,ambulances,fire tenders,baby alarms,police oh and probably kill the fish.
why bother having interference laws and emission regulations egh ?
My new case mod! (Score:2, Funny)
Aquarium Monitor (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/ [techfreakz.org]
I can't see their website now because it's
Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:5, Funny)
Its very rusty.
The article is in Danish for a start.
And hey, maybe it was just another one of those Thinkgeek product placements that seem to have been appearing on
Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:1)
Its very rusty.
The article is in Danish for a start.
So's my Danish
Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:1)
Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek?
It says that it is a Lian Li PC-6010W which apparently by default includes the aquarium [lian-li.com] option.
Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:3, Flamebait)
Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:2)
No, it'll be an article in Swedish showing some geek assembling his new Ikea office desk using nothing but an Allen key, some duct tape, and a venti espresso.
Re:Thinkgeek has been making these for ages (Score:2)
Image Mirror (Score:2)
Running? (Score:5, Interesting)
I suppose this could be better explained if I could read German.
Danish Blender Fish (Score:2)
Besides, people are only just coming to terms with the whole Germany=DE country code thing (makes perfect sense if you speak Deutsche), so I can understand Denmark=DK may seem a bit too sensible. :)
Q.
Re:Running? (Score:2)
I took a stab in the dark at that one. I knew I'd end up guessing wrong! And leave it to the slashdot crowd to catch me.
Fish'n'chips (Score:1)
Put and take in a case, no way.
and the Engrish summary says.... (Score:2)
Slashdot == ThinkGeek (Score:2)
Excellent product, I thought of buying it. Might still, my daughter's clunker is boring as anything.
But should slashdot be pushing product like this?
M@
Re:Slashdot == ThinkGeek (Score:1, Funny)
Remember, slashdot editors dont even read their own site so im sure they dont check out thinkgeek or the thinkgeek slashbox
i was gonna get 1st post with a link to thinkgeek but i started looking for pr0n while i waited for the story to go live then when i came back it was live for a few mins and someone beat me, argh damn porn
What I would Actually like to see. (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's an idea for a casemod that would actually impress me:
Get some expensive pure water, some with NO corrosive dissolved oxygen, and completely electrically neutral, meaning no OH- and H+ ions. I realize that water is self-ionizing, so the removal of these ions might need to be continuous.
Unpack, assemble, and run your awesome computer in a container full of this stuff.
I don't care how expensive or chemically unfeasible that would be, but that would actually be impressive. I've heard of computers running submerged in vegetable oil before, since vegetable oil is made of large covalent molecules, but I don't care. I want an underwater computer.
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2, Interesting)
Would ruin computer (Score:5, Informative)
De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.
My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.
Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=article
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2)
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2)
The only bitch would be upgra
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2, Informative)
However, isn't distilled water relatively non-conductive? Does that mean that you could run the parts of the computer that don't move submerged in distilled water
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:3, Informative)
Oh yeah! You're right. That's Le Chatelier's principle. You're also right about hydronium. I always just pretended that water dissociated into hydrogen and hydroxide instead of hydronium and hydroxide because it made my stoichiometry easier.
Yeah, it was Fritz Haber who had an excellent method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and got a nobel prize for it even, IIRC. During world war one, he was a patriot and a tremendous asset to germany. He was instrumental in developing poi
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2)
The idea is that water breaks down into hydronium and hydroxyl at a certain rate. At 25 degrees Celsius this rate is that one in every 10 million water molecules is broken down at any one time. This number depends on temperature so that at higher temperatures the water is dissoci
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2)
What I mean is that any quantity of water has 1 x 10^-7 M of hydronium ions and 1 x 10^-7 M of hydroxyl ions. If you want to know how many ions that is in a certain
An aquarium is stupid. (Score:2)
ooh - fishies in coolant? (Score:1)
I suppose all of that Fluorinert [3m.com] probably wouldn't be too good for the fishies, though.
Hypothetically, could oxygen even be dissolved in Fluorinert? (I'm thinking not as it's probably a nonpolar fluid, but whatever)...
Re:ooh - fishies in coolant? (Score:1)
Haven't read the article but that won't stop me. (Score:2, Funny)
How about not?
Awesome (Score:1)
not exactly seaworld... (Score:2, Funny)
"Sa plumpes de i akvariet, og en god ide er at lade 3 af fiskene svomme den ene vej og 3 de 3 sidste den anden vej, idet de ikke kan vende sig rundt, nar de er kommet i."
Which translates roughly into (its danish):
"Next they are put into the aquarium, and it is a good idea to let 3 of the fish swim one way and the last 3 the other way, since they can't turn after they are put in."
Isn't that slightly cruel?
This is nothing more than... (Score:3, Informative)
It's a Lian-Li case with a window with fake fish. Nothing too exciting, here...
Macquariums with real fish! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Macquariums with real fish! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Macquariums with real fish! (Score:2, Interesting)
Imagine a... (Score:2, Funny)
SCHOOL of those!!!
Not Exactly an Aquarium (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not Exactly an Aquarium (Score:2)
That's not going to help you much if you own an Athlon like I do *rimshot*. But you're quite right, it's not nearly an aquarium, and there is more than one case maker out there selling this stuff. *Why* you would want to do this, however, is completely beyond me.
But this is... (Score:2)
Re:how about an Electric Eel? (Score:3, Interesting)
P.S. Just in (um) case anyone thinks of doing this, electric eels are large (1 to over 2 meters!), difficult to handle, voracious, and sensitive to bright light. Feed them live food at night, and provide places to hide.
Overclocking?? With electric eels? (Score:2)
how about this (Score:1)
Finally, a solution... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally, a solution... (Score:2)
Finally, a solution..for coders who use cat?. (Score:2)
Of course I might have a problem when I cat | diff myself!
But that has always been problematic anyway.
LinuxWorld (Score:1)
That's nothing (Score:4, Funny)
He was going to put a website up about it, but then he got high...
HUH? (Score:2)
Dead fish (Score:2)
Somebody might be doing a lot of scooping.
RTFA! (Score:2)
Am I the only one (Score:2)
Re:It's Been Done Before... (Score:2)