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Tired of heavy, immobile computers? Solve all of your computer mobility problems with the new HoverCase. The patented HoverCase design replaces the conventional bottom of a PC case with powerful fans that suck out the heat from your computer and use it to inflate a hover skirt below its bulky frame allowing
total mobility and smooth gliding action.
The HoverCase corporation assumes no responsibility for accidents caused by activating case on raised worksurface.
There is no such force as suction!
http://www.avweb.co...irman/183261-1.html
[nihilo, May 26 2006]
A more practical solution, to the same problem?
Laptop_20Handles
Laptop Handles by [gumbob] [rcarty, May 26 2006]
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Hmmm, wireless networking, built in UPS, swivel chair with wheels... |
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I don't know. With my luck, I'd have my computer follow me around gliding on air. Then I'd walk into a Starbucks and order a coffee; turn around; and step on my computer. |
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This would have two hilarious/disasterous effects. 1, the leg I'm standing on would rapidly accelerate while inducing a nasty fall; and 2, my computer would rapidly accelerate and likely finally come to rest in several pieces. |
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Of course, just sit on your computer. Better than wheels any day. |
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//Can I have a hoverchair?//
That's just ridiculous. |
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What's next the computer hat? ...dries your hair after a shower? |
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//What's next the computer hat? ...dries your hair after a shower?// |
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Just turn the computer on its side. |
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Computers that follow you around? |
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//Computers that follow you around?// |
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Mine would need dog avoidance sensors. |
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//Mine would need dog avoidance sensors//
Make it look like a bath or a vet. |
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Get Michael J Fox to advertise it, by riding it down the street. He's light enough. |
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The heat and air draught from the CPU fan/s |
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CPU fans cannot produce a sufficient amount of thrust to cause the computer to hover, and the computer would have to be plugged in, to power the fans, eliminating its portability feature. |
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You obviously aren't using big enough CPU fans or a big enough UPS. |
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// powerful fans that suck out the heat from your computer // |
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This idea is [magic] because, as my 7th grade science teacher explained: "there is no such force as suction". |
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Well, if there isn't, it should jolly well be invented then. |
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Quiet! Don't tell all those hovercrafts that they're running on magic! Disastrous consequences will befall us. |
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//This idea is [magic] because, as my 7th grade science teacher explained: "there is no such force as suction"// |
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Very true, suction is infact a result of a pressure gradient. However [harderthanjesus] didn't mention suction being a force. |
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Hovercrafts, hoovers, vaccuum formers, hydraulics and pneumatics all exert or induce a suction of some kind - no one refers to any of these devices as 'utilising a pressure gradient.' |
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I would still like a hoverchair please :) |
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You can STILL sit on the hovercomputer. |
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Vibration isn't good for the little hard-drives and other parts inside. |
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In fact, vibration is a common stress test to accellerate aging to failure in reliability tests. |
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OK, enough taking too seriously.[+] |
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