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Sometimes I wonder if there was a way to direct the creative energy of all the halfbakers toward a noble (or evil) goal. For example ... I'm just randomly wondering about this: ... there are going to be thousands of useless 15 - 17" CRT monitors that no one will want (other than metal recyclers) ...
what would a halfbaker do with 1000 of such monitors?
For this I'd like to see a challenge link in halfbakery where anyone can post a challenge for halfbakers from all around the world to come up with the most creative idea within a certain time limit (4 weeks) the competition would be won by an idea with the most net croisants. ... the prize? ... Prestige, fame and eventually a chance for world domination.
Nothing like a bit of shameless publicity...
HB_20Challenge_20Board
HB Challenge Board [Jinbish, Oct 25 2005]
Wall Of Speakers
Wall_20Of_20Speakers
What to do with all those CRTs? Why incorporate them into your wall of speakers of course. [zen_tom, Oct 26 2005]
Helping mankind via AOL CD's by the unfortunately MIA krelnik
AOL_20CDs_20for_20t...Good_20of_20Mankind
OK this may not have been this summer. [hidden truths, Oct 26 2005]
CD Solar Collector by Worldgineer
Massive_20AOL_20CD_...20Collector_20Array
Again not actually this summer. [hidden truths, Oct 26 2005]
Armouring Cows by UnaBubba
Cow_20Armour
Result! Made this July. OK it's possible that this one idea was posted this summer. [hidden truths, Oct 26 2005]
po's rubiks cube Tv
rubik_20cube_20tv_2e
[Dub, Oct 26 2005]
Don't forget the MaSCAra (of Doom!)
Massive_20Solar_20C...rray_20(of_20Doom!)
for [db], in case you'd like to do something useful with them, like take over the world [Worldgineer, Oct 26 2005]
http://www.whynot.net/
I think if you have an account there, you can pose problems for other people to solve. [jutta, Oct 27 2005]
Macquarium
http://www.applefri...r.com/image/tid/114
Because some people have too many hand tools. [shapu, Oct 28 2005]
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Stuff like this turns up all the time. In the summer, we ended up with a fair few ideas for uses of AOL CDs. |
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Please link, [hidden_truths]. I have a big pile of them (AOL CDs) that I don't know what to do with. |
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I started to make a decorative mobile with them - I hit a snag, cannot recall the details. |
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make lots of po's rubik cube TVs? |
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Max Headroom video-displays at supermarkets. |
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I don't much care for these "contests" or their outcomes. I love ideas that come from materials and real work; I don't like it when people sit down and try very hard to be creative. Your mileage may vary. |
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Why would no-one want these monitors? Have they stopped working? |
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in the companies I work for they are getting LCD monitors for all the new computers. The 'old' 17" monitors are going to the dump ... yes I know that someone will want to buy them but I see these being sold for $10 each and that's going lower and lower. Yes yes and yes ... someone will GLADLY take them (including myself) That's not my point ... I'm curious what's a halfbaked way to use these obsolete and generally unwanted monitors. |
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Rebuild The Colossus of Rhodes. |
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Here's an idea challenge for you. Picture a star in the middle of an S-shaped string of black holes with its position being slightly to the left of the bottom part of the S that faces us and slightly to the right of the top part of the S. Gravity from the bottom half directs the star's light away from us so we never see it. Gravity from the top half twists it so it eventually heads back straight towards us. Now for the challenge -figure out how far away the star actually is. If you can do that then you'll probably have discovered a way to figure out how many black holes there are between us and any given star, which should come in real handy when it comes down to knowing where the stars at the edge of the universe really are, instead of just knowing where they appear to be. It might also solve the horizon problem. Just something for your spare time. |
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Thank you, [Worldgineer], that was very kind of you. Also thank you [hidden_truths]. |
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I shall start trying to understand the question this very moment, [longshot9999]. Maybe in a few years i will be able to start wondering about the answer. And then what fun I shall have. |
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I like the idea of having the power of the halfbakery directed towards a goal. But it should be [jutta]'s goal, as she set up this wonderful world. |
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Use for monitors: Aquariums. |
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Used and unwanted CRT's make good video walls for concerts and fasion shows. Simply place 9, 12 or 15 or more monitors in a stacked pattern showing identical images or have the image split up so that every monitor shows a different part of the image. |
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I have also seen people use a CRT monitor with magnifying lenses to make a cheap projector. |
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Because of the smoothness and clarity of a CRT monitor, I doubt that it will ever be permanently replaced with the plasma or LCD flat panel displays. |
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db - The question is how do we really know where anything out there is when the light from the stars can be twisted and turned by an unknown number of black holes before it reaches us? |
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last time a group of smart Alecs sat together to come up
with something noble we got the Atomic Bomb - thanks
guys. |
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