Are you willing to destroy gadgets … for better gadgets?
By Mike Skuse in Reader
Posted in Technology, USB, Internet on January 3, 2008 at 11:30 am
Yesterday I read about the new Wacom graphics tablet – the Wacom Cintiq 12WX on Gizmodo, its like a normal graphics tablet but it incorporates a screen which allows you to draw directly onto the image you are manipulating. It acts as a second monitor and then allows configuration to just control that screen, to me it looks super duper uber cool – it’s a novelty gadget that’s useful for comic people and the like but for me it would be a five minute wonder (not that I could afford such a thing). Later on in the day I noticed an article again on Gizmodo about someone on Instructables who had attached an ordinary graphics tablet to the back of their MacBook. This got me thinking how much I would do to my own gadgets and toys to make them cooler, have more functions or just seem as if they are more up to date? – Would I take apart my laptop? – I think not. For starters I take my laptop for granted as I’ve been wanting one for as long as I can remember and secondly it would just look silly if you carried a laptop around with a tablet stuck to the back wouldn’t it?
I think that anything to do with software I’d be willing to play with and risk – after all most of the time it can be restored and put right again, but with hardware changes its pretty hard to go back to the way it was, I’d be unlucky enough to lose all the screws and put a hole in the piece being removed.
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So, Would you (or have you) mutilate your gadgets to make them better?
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(Just in case you were wondering, I tried holding my own graphics tablet up to the back of my laptop screen and using it but it seems that the screen is just too thick or there is interference from the case – sadly no luck for me on the easy solution front)
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Loading ...Comment by Jason Slater - January 3, 2008 on 12:06 pm
The Cintiq is a nice piece of kit and could (if I put the effort in to learn how it works properly!) make drawing Monk and his IT Junk cartoons much easier (and way cooler). But, at least in my opinion, it is quite expensive for what it is.
I saw a video of a Star Trek style toy phaser that had been assembled using various bits including the laser from a PS3 which was cool. But would I spend all that money to buy a PS3 just to build a toy phaser - erm No.
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