Hacked Mac mini delivers news the old-fashioned way (sort of)

21 Comments on Hacked Mac mini delivers news the old-fashioned way (sort of)

Rowlings on Wed, 27th Jun 2007 4:14 pm


It even has a remote! How f-ing cool is that!?!?

gear whore on Wed, 27th Jun 2007 4:32 pm


niiiiice!

Crazy Eddie on Wed, 27th Jun 2007 5:44 pm


What does an assistant editor make that they can just throw away a Mac mini like that?
don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool mod and all, but the mini could be put to a more useful purpose.
At MY house.


I'd buy THAT for a dollar! on Wed, 27th Jun 2007 9:24 pm


that is freakin’ cool as all hell. He should sell those.

george on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 1:19 pm


i wonder where he gets his feed for those up to date headlines. of course, his job. but is it a digital scan that youd find archived library style, or maybe he just brings home a cd and loads it in every day. or has it networked. all the same, pretty cool.

MCM on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 1:22 pm


could be MORE useful at mine I love macs and need more power

kcb2 on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 1:29 pm


So you have to sit in front of this thing to read your news? I agree he did a nice job and its cool…but not exactly practical…

philldo on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 1:39 pm


Sweet mod. This would look great in a news room office.

Eric on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 2:10 pm


I would say this seems like the future of newsstands… with the ability to show all the headlines to attract paper buyers!

pierce on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 2:22 pm


Anybody have a “how-to?” It should be easy to do with alot less computer power though.

Dude on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 3:08 pm


It would be even cooler if when he opened it up it printed the displayed paper.

ub3rg33k on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 4:04 pm


That’s cool, but I don’t understand the point of the rope light. What’s that all about? Didn’t the LCD come with a backlight already?

Da Coyote on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 5:19 pm


I normally regard MSM folk as somewhat below worms in intelligence, but this fellow is obviously the exception. Mega cool!

eBooksBay on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 5:42 pm


Very cool.

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fresh on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 7:36 pm


so what is the rope lighting for??

Dell on Fri, 29th Jun 2007 12:57 am


This is sooo cool. Thanks for sharing this.

jamie on Fri, 29th Jun 2007 10:06 am


i was just thinking to myself the other day that there hasn’t been any enhancements in newspaper vending technology in a while

Thunk Different. on Fri, 29th Jun 2007 2:57 pm


That is awesome doc!

Sanford on Sat, 13th Oct 2007 5:11 am


Cool, but already been done a couple of years ago. As seen at Quakecon 2004…

http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/11/24/newspaper_box/1

Louis Vuitton on Wed, 12th Mar 2008 3:53 pm


I think I have seen something similar at the Paris Subway - Gare De Norde. It is a great idea.

Phil on Thu, 7th Aug 2008 2:38 pm


The light rope is cosmetic… provides the backlight behind the vending rack.

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