Photo gallery: Wacky laptop tricks

IBM Thinkpad laptop tricks

Rich Anderson is an instructor at Dunwoody College. He loves teaching, digital photography, canoeing, backpacking, and rock climbing.

He's also put together this gallery of humorous images showing a wild and crazy hacker utilising his IBM laptop in weird ways.

CAUTION: Implementation of laptop tips may result in damage to laptop or user. We assume no responsibility or liability for either case.

If you have at least three (the more the better) wacky laptop pictures, e-mail the editor at edit@zdnet.com.au and we will consider them for publication.

© Webshots - richanderson

Advertisement

Talkback 12 comments

    Different choice of notebook? Anonymous -- 28/10/05 (in reply to #120122548)

    Maybe he should use a Panasonic Toughbook next time ;-)

    RE: Different Choice of Notebook Michael Heikkilae -- 01/11/05 (in reply to #120122549)

    Or an Apple... they dont seem to be good for much else.

    alternative usage as an Grave-Stone ;-) Anonymous -- 04/11/05

    your notebook will be a perfect gravestone,
    1) flexible Text-features on Family-graves
    2) email-greatings from all over the world
    direct on this High-Techstone
    3) put a web-cam on it and controll the flowers from home
    ... and much more :-)

    What a waste of space Anonymous -- 06/11/05

    this woudl have to be the lamest thing i have ever seen on here.

    Who wants to see some fool with too much spare time and in need of a hair cut, do retarded things with an old laptop.

    Zdnet was either desperate for content or owed this guy a massive favour. Pull it down now, it adds zero value.

    chill out mate david -- 07/11/05 (in reply to #120122903)

    learn to relax and enjoy the view :)

    He's right Anonymous -- 22/11/05 (in reply to #120122924)

    He's right, this has to be one of the most reta... well I'm not going to say it if ya catch my drift.

    What a waste of Bandwidth Anonymous -- 09/11/05

    i guess he´s a manufacturing defect or He´ve had a low sex life,i congragulate his wife for getting the divorce..i wonder how such morons get space on this website.

    sorely disapointed Anonymous -- 10/11/05 (in reply to #120123043)

    well i was expecting tricks

    this made it into like zd news. :C

    slow day..

    Beautiful! Cheryl -- 20/11/05

    I'm going to use one of these creative images for my York university power point presentation on Experiential Education! (with credits of course)

    Dont give laptops to hippies Jim Papadopoulos -- 23/11/05

    I have a 4 year old that loads her own kids games and goes to the everythinggirl.com web site by herself

    What a moron

    Poor laptops Anonymous -- 30/11/05

    The 'Canoe paddle' and 'Snow plow' pictures made me cry.

    Great tips Rob -- 16/04/06

    Thanks for the great tips on how to get the most out of your laptop. Very inventive. Lets face it, we are really lacking in creativity now a days and this is an example of a great mind at work. esp like the boat paddle. keep up the great work!!

Add your opinion

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Suzanne Tindal Love me, tender
    Considering how expensive and drawn-out tender processes can be to solve problems that might be very immediate, it's little wonder that the Victorian Police IT department tried to work the tender exemptions system.
  • Array 2009 funding drought rolls on
    For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
  • Array Can not-so-smart meters help the NBN?
    It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
  • More blogs »

Tags

Back to top

Featured