There was a time when computers were so huge that you could fit several goats inside them and still have room for 17,468 vacuum tubes and 7,200 crystal diodes. Those were indeed the days. But as the decades past and technology became smaller and smaller the opposite has been taking place. People are fitting computers inside the goats! Okay well maybe not inside goats exactly, but there seems to be a new trend towards placing computers inside various members of the animal kingdom.
It ain’t easy being green…
Have you ever found yourself sitting alone, wishing upon a star that you could somehow electronically manipulate the limbs of a dead frog from afar. I know I have. Well thanks to Garnet Hertz’s Experiments in Galvanism, your dreams can come true. By attaching an Ethernet cable to a tiny server installed inside the corpse of a frog, remote users can harness the powers of the interwebs to make the amphibian’s legs twitch.
Garnet Hertz must have been an infuriating lab partner in high school biology class:
Teacher: Directly below the frog’s liver you’ll notice the gall bladder and the pancreas…um…yes Garnet?
Garnet: Where can I cram this disk drive?
Meat, Milk, and Modems
Once you see how many computer parts this industrious fellow was able to squeeze into his 14’ tall, 6’ wide, and 28’ wide plastic cow, just imagine the space station you could inject into a real one. Stan “The Man” Maynard modified his plastic cow to contain a “20Gb hard drive, 256Mb DIMM, a slot-load CD R/RW DVD combo drive, a 44 pin to 40 pin IDE adapter for the CD drive, a laptop to standard IDE adapter for the hard drive, a Mini ITX mother board, a 12V power brick, and a PW120 200 Watt snap-in power supply.” Windows sharepoint server not included.
My question is this: How did Stan recognize the potential? How does someone look at a plastic cow and think “Hey, not only must I own that plastic cow, but I will create a personal computer out of it”?
My answer: Mushrooms
You can watch the incredible hallucinogenic transformation unfold here.
RAM that Beaver
I’m what you’d call technically challenged. I’ll never forget the first time I accidentally hit the “Insert” key on my keyboard and watched in horror as the letters I typed started eating other letters! So if you asked me how many steps it would take to case mod a beaver, I would have probably said “a zillion.”
Turns out I was way off.
29 is in fact the magic number for the amount of steps it takes to gut a taxidermy beaver, and to replace its innards with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an AOpen Mini ITX A-I945GTT-VFA (RoHS) motherboard, a 160G Hard drive, Panasonic UJ-85J 8X Slim DVD Burner, and a Sony DR449;)p%rexatronPboxniptuck37.
Of course when you imagine filling a beaver with hard drives and software, your brain tends to overflow with puns, metaphors, and conjugated linoleic acid. While there’s not much you can do about the acid, you can read all the pun-tacular comments made by hundreds of others, as well as all 29 steps to creating your very own compu-beaver here.
Mouse Mouse
From the fine folks who brought you the Beaver case mod, comes the Mouse Mouse.
The trick with this tiny modification is that you’ll not only have to learn how to dissect a mouse, but you’ll also have to learn how to dissect a mouse.
Warning: Using the Mouse Mouse can lead to severe cases of the Heebie Jeebies, and may cause you to projectile vomit into your keyboard. Stay tuned next week when we show you how to build a keyboard using monkey skulls.
Yes technology has shrunk indeed. From a time when you could have been sitting at a behemoth computer console filled to the rim with giant squids and never have been the wiser, to an age where the tiniest of creatures can protect microprocessors in the same way a tauntaun protected Luke Skywalker from the harsh weather of planet Hoth, we have indeed come a long way. I will know that humans have truly evolved as a species when someone can put my iPhone inside a turtle, or my X-Box controller inside a tarantula.
not so good … its cruel
@Ashish Kalmegh
I hope that cow didn’t have any calf’s.
its creative I agree but it looks like it is real . but it is not
IF that cow was real, it was a damn tiny thing.
And also made of plastic..
awesome post….
Well I have heard of stuffed animals before, but this goes way beyond bizarre. I hope as the processor heats up that the fans don’t end up kicking out some sort of dead animal smell into the room.
if you think this case mod is weird, check out this mod.
http://yovia.com/blogs/gizmo/2010/01/21/the-greatest-xbox-360-casemod-ever/
This is what happens when you cross a taxidermist with a computer geek. I do have to admit though the one with the frogs in the tank is really cool. But putting a system inside of a frog? What were they thinking?
The mouse really cracks me up. Very creative, disgusting but very creative. And who would not want a beaver to be controlling their internet browsing. It just seems right.