Posts tagged: laptop
DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand
By DIY Maven
Green upgrader Matt Embrey shows us how to turn cardboard into an awesome laptop stand. To make one for yourself, you'll need a few things, which you most likely have on hand.
Solar Laptop Charger Bag - An Efficient Way to Charge your Laptops and Electronic Devices
By lizzyjane
The Go-Green culture is picking up with the rising awareness of depleting natural resources and the growing Green House effects. Turning towards renewable and natural sources of energy has become the need of the hour. Voltaic Systems recently announced a Solar Laptop Bag at the CES 2008(Consumer Electronics Show) which could be a real blessing as Laptops remain to be the most power-consuming devices in this world! It uses high efficiency solar ce » READ MOREMake Your Own Cardboard Laptop Case?
By DIY Maven
Giles Miller turns cardboard into laptop cases, altering it as he goes to add personalization--like initials and apples and such. Want to try to make one of your own? Check out this Instructable:
Make a Soda Tab Chainmail Laptop Bag
By DIY Maven
She's Particular's Chain Mail Laptop Bag reminds me Lizzie Gardiner's American Express Oscar dress (pictured below), only much more practical. Nobody re-wears those Oscar dresses, whereas this, hey, now we're talkin'. Not only is the bag awesomely medieval, it provides some serious armor for your MacBook. You can check out the entire tutorial over on Instructables.
Make a No-Sew MacBook Cozy
By DIY Maven
This must be the easiest laptop sleeve how-to ever. Its no sew construction makes it especially enticing. To make one, just assemble the following: » READ MORE
Make A Laptop Messenger Bag
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Made from Anthropologie-looking fabric, the Laptop Messenger Bag has a smooth chocolate brown recycled leather strap (from an Ann Taylor skirt) and a back pocket cut out of a recycled bomber jacket. To be perfectly honest, I did take the outside pocket right off of my original Placemat Hack: Flaptop Laptop Cover. This handy messenger version is easy to carry, quilted on the inside and has the added details of topstitching and that fabulou » READ MORE
A Solar Powered Laptop?
By ChrisjobSo, Apple has apparently captured the technology to power their portable electronics with el sol. So states Inhabitat: "Apple just filed a patent to infuse their hand-helds and computers with a thin film of solar cells, paving the way for a new generation of gadgets with battery life boosted by the sun. The patent approaches the prospect from every angle, with schematics to stack photovolta » READ MORE
Placemat Hack: Flaptop Laptop Cover
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Finally a use for colorful, rectangular placements available at World Market! Here's a tutorial you can follow to make some jazzy padded laptop covers for yourself or for gifts. You'll need a little more than basic sewing skills to do this, but it's worth the time and it's very customize-able. With some patience and desire, you'll be the envy of all your Black-Nylon-Canvas-Cased Friends.
what you need:
sewing machine
» READ MOREHack a Laptop Desk
By DIY Maven
Adam from Boston used an Ikea benjamin stool to hack a laptop desk. All you need to pull this off is the $20 benjamin stool and a $6 coping saw. Brilliant.
Cool Off Your Overheated Laptop.
By ChrisjobTech blog PC Tips Box offers three tips to keep your lap and fingers cool as you work on your laptop, perhaps as you write your Curbly post masterpiece?
1. Clean the fan
2. Monitor the vitals
3. Work using a ergonomic fan riser.
Read the full article here.
Hot Lap? Get The Lapinator.
By DIY Maven
If you’ve spent any quality time with a laptop, then you know how much heat those chugging chips can produce, which makes for one toasty lap. Maybe okay in the wintertime, but in the summer the electronic warmth sort of negates the air-conditioning. Enter the Lapinator. Weighing 11 ounces, the Lapinator is constructed out of Thinsulate™, which, they say, blocks 95% of the laptop’s heat. DIYable? Maybe, but at $24.95 it’s not that big of an inve » READ MORE
Laptop oriented desk
By votiveI currently use my spare bedroom as an office and storage area. A large part of the room is occupied by an enormous desk. What I would like to do is replace the desk with a much smaller desk, ideally with storage space so that I can turn the room into a study & spare bedroom combined.
This leads me to my question. Has anyone been able to find in the UK a small desk that is oriented towards laptop computing? All the computer desks I've seen includ » READ MORE
