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Title: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on May 20, 2006, 12:43:43 pm

http://isnoop.net/blog/2006/05/20/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-a-jedi-weapon/

Utilizing the MacBooks ''sudden motion sensor", this program allows you to swing the laptop around, whilst it creates authentic lightsaber sounds.


Hold tight!
mrC

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: PCtech on May 23, 2006, 08:31:09 am

Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on May 20, 2006, 12:43:43 pm

http://isnoop.net/blog/2006/05/20/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-a-jedi-weapon/

Utilizing the MacBooks ''sudden motion sensor", this program allows you to swing the laptop around, whilst it creates authentic lightsaber sounds.


Hold tight!
mrC

FYI - if you accidentaly "let go" or "drop" your "light sabre", I would be happy to repair, at a totally indecent price.

Repair Tech - "You were swinging your laptop around and doing what with it?"  :applaud:

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on May 24, 2006, 10:25:13 am

Video: http://gizmodo.net/gadgets/laptops/matt-haughey-macsaber-video-175802.php

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: Harry Potter on May 24, 2006, 12:19:33 pm

Finally I can re-enact the scene where Luke drops his lightsaber down that really long shaft.  ;D

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: PCtech on May 25, 2006, 09:10:58 am

Quote from: Harry Potter on May 24, 2006, 12:19:33 pm

Finally I can re-enact the scene where Luke drops his lightsaber down that really long shaft.  ;D

Stingray may let you borrow his Mac... ;D

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: Harry Potter on May 25, 2006, 09:54:14 am

You read my mind.  :cheers:

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: JeepMonkey on May 25, 2006, 11:30:54 am

Quote from: PCtech on May 23, 2006, 08:31:09 am

Repair Tech - "You were swinging your laptop around and doing what with it?"  :applaud: 

Would this be the weirdest thing you have heard as a PC Tech?

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on May 25, 2006, 12:08:14 pm

See also: The SmackBook : http://gizmodo.net/gadgets/laptops/smackbook-pro-176255.php



mrC

Title: Re: MacSaber! Turn Your Mac Into a Jedi Weapon.
Post by: PCtech on May 25, 2006, 05:01:46 pm

Quote from: JeepMonkey on May 25, 2006, 11:30:54 am

Quote from: PCtech on May 23, 2006, 08:31:09 am

Repair Tech - "You were swinging your laptop around and doing what with it?"  :applaud: 

Would this be the weirdest thing you have heard as a PC Tech?

I wish... :cry:

The year is 1992, Indiana.....

I'm working at my first job, one of our accounts asks if we can take a look at his home computer if he pays us...we say sure.

He brings it by....apparently it has been sitting in his barn for a "couple years" (did I mention it was in Indiana).  For some reason it doesn't work now (could it be the 6" of dust/dirt/manure caked around the case?).

Before plugging it in, we open the case, and......................

2 Dead mice (not the kind with the buttons), real mice...1 was almost a skeleton, the other was a little fresher....

Suprisingly enough, after removing the bodies, cleaning the case (yuck), and reseating everything on the motherboard, it actaully fired up.

We told him that we had to unstall the internal mice, and everything worked fine...he just gave us a puzzled look, and took it back home.

fond memories.... :cheers: