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Ruggedize Your Own Laptop with Tennis Balls, Foam and Tape [Mods]
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 1968172" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p><a href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/08/waterlaptop-470-0909.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/08/500x_waterlaptop-470-0909.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Remember back in school when you built some contraption to drop an egg without spilling yoke everywhere? Well <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how_to/4327743.html" target="_blank">Pop Mech</a> essentially did the same thing, but they used a laptop.</p><p></p><p> After wrapping a Dell Inspiron 1545 in an exoskeleton of foam-core boards, pipe insulation and tennis balls (hence the protruding, rounded edges), the laptop could be dropped from a distance of 8 feet and live to tell the tale. (There's a non-embeddable clip of the testing over at their site.) Just how many times the computer could survive such a drop is unknown. Then again, if you're repeatedly dropping your precious machine from the peak of your reach, you may be a big enough douchebag to deserve any karma that foam alone cannot assuage.</p><p></p><p> Also of note, a FoodSaver vacuum sealer in "pulse" mode is absolutely perfect for waterproofing a cellphone in a snug-fitting plastic skin—you'll just need to rip your phone from the bag when you want to recharge it. [<a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how_to/4327743.html" target="_blank">Pop Mech</a>]</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/adJ4M31HKb_xsYTB6FAgPY21pGE/0/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/adJ4M31HKb_xsYTB6FAgPY21pGE/0/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/adJ4M31HKb_xsYTB6FAgPY21pGE/1/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/adJ4M31HKb_xsYTB6FAgPY21pGE/1/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=_NTZnUQVlQM:zMCJneCEiYM:H0mrP-F8Qgo" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=_NTZnUQVlQM:zMCJneCEiYM:yIl2AUoC8zA" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=_NTZnUQVlQM:zMCJneCEiYM:D7DqB2pKExk" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=_NTZnUQVlQM:zMCJneCEiYM:D7DqB2pKExk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=_NTZnUQVlQM:zMCJneCEiYM:V_sGLiPBpWU" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=_NTZnUQVlQM:zMCJneCEiYM:V_sGLiPBpWU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/_NTZnUQVlQM" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
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