Laptop Laser Engraving

Laser engraving of images on laptops:

Kevin Rose using an engraved laptop on Diggnation:


The laptop getting engraved:


click above for a larger image

He and Fried hope there will be solid demand for the company's services in New York, particularly because the laser-etching machinery, a 35-watt machine from Epilog Laser, runs about $15,000.

more info:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldandersen/sets/72157594384643188/
http://www.epiloglaser.com/
http://www.trotec.net/
http://www.identify.co.uk/level3_lasers.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm89tfprStE
makezine.com
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/how_its_made_laser_etching_pow.html
http://www.adafruit.com/laser/
http://dev.freeverse.com/monkeyblog/archives/2006/12/lasing_around.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6143072.html
http://www.etchamac.com/
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/laptop/laser-etching-a-powerbook-197202.php
more laser etching pics on flickr
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/24/moto_miami_ink_razr/
http://www.laserdevils.com/ipod_engraving.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_engraving

Create your own Digg with Pligg

You're a Digg fanboy. You want to be the next Kevin Rose and create the next Digg. Or maybe you are an evil Jason Calacanis type that wants to destroy Digg (Rose Vs Calacanis). Now you can with the free Pligg CMS:
http://pligg.com/

Pligg FAQ:
http://www.pligg.com/faq.html

Example Sites:
http://www.jossle.com/
http://www.gamediggity.com/
http://www.gamesnips.com/
http://dealigg.com/

Kevin Rose talks about Digg at the Future of Web Apps conference:
Kevin_Rose.mp3

The next FOWA conference (with Kevin Rose as a speaker) is in London in February:
http://www.futureofwebapps.com/speakers.html

This is what the comic strip blogger thinks of Calacanis:

The Digg Swarm - The coolest way to view digg.com

The coolest way to view digg is via the swarm:
http://labs.digg.com/swarm/

In real time you can see who is digging what stories. Stories grow as they get more diggs and elastic connections are made between stories as diggers move between them.

Diggers are solid yellow blobs that grow larger as that user diggs more stories. Hover over the blob to see that user's name and click on the blob to go to that user's digg history.

Stories with a large number of diggs are yellow circles. Upcoming stories are white circles. The circles grow as users digg them. Hover over the circle to see the story title. Click on the circle to see a story summary and link to the story page.

When a digger just diggs every upcoming story he finds he becomes a fat bloated yellow blob and ties together a bunch of insignificant stories in a big clump:


The best way to sift through all the upcoming stories is to use the cloud view:
http://digg.com/news/upcoming/cloud/

Kevin Rose is the coolest guy in the world

A kid wrote a letter to Kevin Rose (founder of Digg.com):
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997001.htm

And Kevin sent him back a signed Business Week:
http://nerd4life.blogspot.com/



To see Kevin's video podcast check out diggnation:
http://revision3.com/diggnation

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