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Creative use for empty whiskey bottles

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:50 AM
from the now-that's-a-mod dept.
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Japala writes "You might have seen computers built inside of toasters, radios, garden lamps etc. As motherboards keep getting smaller and smaller the possibilites on where you can embed then increases. As it turns out, you can get them to fit inside an empty glass bottle. Whisky PC for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server."
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  • Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)

    by SteelFist (734281) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:52AM (#14646118)
    So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?

  • Cheat! (Score:5, Funny)

    by LiquidCoooled (634315) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:53AM (#14646123) Homepage Journal
    I thought they were going to try and rollup the motherboard and unfurl the memorysticks and processor once inside.

    Instead they just cut a hole in it.

  • portable, and tastes nice too... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by joe 155 (937621) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:55AM (#14646139) Journal
    well, it is certainly more portable and better looking than your average tower. I think that there could well be a market for these things, in all different types of bottles or shaped glass cases... If you wanted to go all out you could put a plasma screan on the side... set it to show the original label as a screan saver if you want to go all out...

    I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...

  • for what? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Quixote (154172) * on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:57AM (#14646144) Homepage Journal
    for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server.

    Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...

  • Any more info on the motherboard? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by jerkychew (80913) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:57AM (#14646145) Homepage
    The article just says that the board is an "industrial 3.5" SBC board". Does anybody know the model number, and where one could buy this board?
  • It'll stay cool, if it gets too many requests it'll just tell you to piss off.

    And if it does go down, hey, its only passed out, and not burning in flame.

  • There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:5, Funny)

    by TubeSteak (669689) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:59AM (#14646150) Journal
    Put a fish in it :O)

    I've got an empty 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels that one of my alky loving friends gave to me. I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.

  • Where do you get that stuff? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by autopr0n (534291) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:59AM (#14646153) Homepage Journal
    Is there any site that lists all the motherboards and components you can use to build these tiny machines? I've seen mini-itx.com, but it's very hard to navigate to specific boards, cases, psu's etc. It's mostly a news site, and it seems like if you don't keep up with it every day you'll have no idea what's up. So, where do you go to find these little things? I'd love to build a PC based alarm clock.

  • What's with the hole? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Phat_Tony (661117) on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:59AM (#14646154)
    They cheated! They cut a hole in the side of the bottle.

    They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.

    • Indeed. I haven't heard of anybody doing that level of surface mount construction, but it should be possible. The constraint would be that you'd have to build the computer with only small enough chips to fit through the neck. That would eliminate many LSI and larger chips. The whole thing could be built with SO-14, SO-16, SO-20, and SO-24 pin packages, though, using conventional 'logic gate' design. Lots and lots of soldering, though.

  • Wow! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2006, @11:59AM (#14646156)
    A chip in a bottle!

  • A whisky server... (Score:5, Funny)

    by ToteAdler (631239) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:04PM (#14646180)
    Would that make it a bar tender?

  • PC in a bottle (Score:5, Funny)

    by ikejam (821818) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:10PM (#14646209)
    aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..

  • Form A Band (Score:3, Funny)

    by slashbob22 (918040) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:26PM (#14646262)
    Fill the bottles to different levels, form a band, and recreate Windows theme sounds.
    While your at it, rebrand Windows Vista:
    "Windows Redneck" with the slogan "You ain't ever seed Windows this clean(tm)"
    "Windows Whiskey" with the slogan "Computing, soo you cann drinnk at the sssspeed of your buss, busi, work.(tm)"

  • Do it without cutting the bottle? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by stickyc (38756) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:34PM (#14646290) Homepage
    You should be able to drop one of those SIMM sized linux modules [uclinux.org] in the mouth of a Mickey's Big Mouth. If only they had an equally small wireless module, you might fit the whole thing including enough AA batteries to run for a few days and have a working linux bottle with the cap on.

  • Right... (Score:5, Funny)

    by no_barcode (840948) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:48PM (#14646347) Homepage
    "I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."

    Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?

  • And when the Whiskey Server* gets Slashdotted... (Score:3, Funny)

    by bobdotorg (598873) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:50PM (#14646356)
    Flambe!!!

    *Bananas Foster not included.

  • And in other news... (Score:3, Funny)

    by therage96 (912259) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:51PM (#14646358)
    AP News (12:44pm - EST) - Tragic Death of Geek

    Tragically a young geek lost his (albeit lonely) life last night after starting a fire in his room of his parent's house. It would seem that the young and impetuous geek decided after reading an article on the technology news website "Slashdot," that building a computer out of a used whiskey bottle would be a good idea. However, upon emptying the bottle (and his bladder several times), the poor geek forgot to wash the bottle out and promptly started a fire the moment he turned his new "Whiskey PC" on and sadly, perished in the blaze.

    Memorial services will be held in your MMORPG of choice in that "one zone."

  • Just thinking out loud... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by SleepyHappyDoc (813919) on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:53PM (#14646372)
    This mod, while very cool, would make an excellent semi-portable monitoring device, say, to keep an eye on the stockroom at your restaurant or whatever. Stuff some kind of thin webcam in the bottle neck, lay it on it's side, headless (cords to the wall, somehow) and you'd have an inconspicuous camera that can store images/video locally or ftp them somewhere remote (then you could skip the laptop drive altogether and run the whole thing off the CF card, perhaps allowing a smaller bottle), and looks like an empty bottle on a shelf. Extra points if you mount it in a wine rack with a few real bottles.

    Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool. ;)

  • PSU (Score:4, Informative)

    by TubeSteak (669689) on Sunday February 05 2006, @01:21PM (#14646478) Journal
    On Page 3 he tells you he used a 60W mini-tix PSU.

    Since you can see (Pg. 4) that he's using a powerbrick, he coulda gone with the PicoPSU [xyzcomputing.com]

    Wouldn't have been as cramped in that bottle.

  • What about when you get pulled over? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Otto (17870) on Sunday February 05 2006, @01:22PM (#14646479) Homepage Journal
    "No officer, I'm not drinking, I'm analysing radio signals to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence."

  • Next Project... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2006, @01:35PM (#14646542)

    ...PDA in a hip flask.

  • Whisky. Not Whiskey. (Score:3, Informative)

    by macpeep (36699) on Sunday February 05 2006, @01:48PM (#14646593)
    A Scotsman who spells
    Whisky with a n 'e',
    should be hand cuffed
    and thrown head first in the Dee.

    In the USA and Ireland,
    it's spelt with an 'e'
    but in Scotland
    it's real 'Whisky'.

    So if you see Whisky
    and it has an 'e',
    only take it,
    if you get it for free!

    For the name is not the same
    and it never will be,
    a dram is only a real dram,
    from a bottle of 'Scotch Whisky'.

    Stanley Bruce.
    20th April 2004

  • Whisk(e)y spelling... (Score:4, Informative)

    by ari_j (90255) on Sunday February 05 2006, @03:13PM (#14646849)
    Just in case anyone is interested...

    The article blurb gets it right once and wrong once. I checked TFA and he used a Ballantine's bottle. Ballantine's is a Scotch, which is a type of whisky (without the E). Other whiskies/whiskeys use different spellings:

    Scotch whisky
    Irish whiskey
    Rye whiskey
    Tennessee whiskey
    Canadian whisky
    Bourbon

    And now you know the rest of the story. ;)

    • Re:Cooling (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Uber Banker (655221) * on Sunday February 05 2006, @12:23PM (#14646249)
      I like the concept, but cutting holes for fans was cheap.

      Putting sufficient airpressure in the top usually pops the bottom off a glass bottle, look at the mould marks in any spirit or beer bottle to see the join. To apply such pressure, decend the palm of your hand onto a bottle mostly filled with water, should make a clean break.

    • If anyone cares... (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2006, @01:35PM (#14646544)
      In places where a formal title is needed, it's usually "Master Glassblower", although there may be the occasional Journeyman working along side where there's enough demand for more than one. If you poke around larger research institutions, there's usually one hiding out somewhere, who handles all of the custom glass blowing, cutting, polishing, optical gluing (EG, for custom laser prisms), and shaping needs. In larger cities, check under "glassblowers" in the Yellow Pages.

      In practice, "great wizard" is far more commonly used than any formal title, because if you can't buy the right shape piece of glass off-the-shelf, then you need to find someone to grovel before. I know of at least one research project that was derailed for almost three years when the previous master retired "unexpectedly" at the ripe age of 80, and his 35-year old Journeyman assistant who got promoted didn't have half a century of expertise under his belt. Requests that the old guy used to craft flawlessly in one day, the new guy sometimes needed four to get what they wanted exactly right... or worse, almost but not quite exactly right.

      Which just goes to show, loss of critical personnel isn't only a problem in IT.

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