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Get a Grip on This Hanging Hard Drive Concept

Andy Salisbury — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:55:16 -0500

With a design so simple it falls under the “I-can’t-believe-no-one-else-thought-of-this-before” category, Sangho Jin of Yanko Design’s hanging hard drive concept is looking to clear up desk clutter, one tiny footprint at a time.

The hanging hard drive, which would mount to your laptop’s screen, provides a nice way to add additional storage to your machine without using valuable desk space. Granted, this simple shift in external HDD placement wouldn’t change any lives, there are definitely plenty of laptop users out there worried about aesthetics (looking at you, Mac users), and to them this will be a welcome change.

“Portable hard drives are not really THAT portable if you have to tote around another peripheral but maybe you should have bought a laptop with a bigger hard drive! OOO Zing! No I didn’t! Yes, yes I did just go there,” writes Yanko Design’s Long Tran on the concept’s page, “Kidding aside, the Hang it On hard drive encloser lets you hang you 2.5” companion off the back of your lappie’s LCD screen. Sure, now your MacBook Air looks like it has a tumor growing off it’s svelt lines but at least you’ll get more than a measily 80GB.”

Well said, Mr. Tran. Well said.

Contest: Design the Maximum PC T-Shirt!

Norman Chan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:45:20 -0500

Reminder: The T-shirt design contest ends this Friday morning. Submit your entries as soon as possible!

Here is your chance to make a mark on Maximum PC! We need new t-shirts, and, quite frankly between the magazine re-design, the website revamp and actually making the magazine every month, we’re just tapped out. That’s where you come in. We're taking submissions for a new t-shirt design, and want you to try your hand at creating one. The design should include the Maximum PC logo, have a maximum of 4 colors, and be created as a vector graphic. Otherwise, we encourage you to be creative and geeky to capture the look and feel of the magazine.

Send us your design for the new Maximum PC t-shirt and you could win a $250 gift card and a few tees to show off your winning art!

Visit the full contest page for the official rules!

Self-replicating Robot Takes Mankind Closer to Ultimate Sci-fi Nightmare

Pulkit Chandna — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:12:47 -0500

Ace Ventura vividly described women as “a temple to house the miracle of procreation” in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, but scientists at a British University have ushered in an era in which robots will also be endowed with the divine gift of reproduction, or more precisely, replication. Researchers at the University of Bath have successfully developed RepRap, self-replicating machine that can copy itself ad infinitum.

Despite all the technological advancements you still have no choice but to click on the "Read More" link to know how the self-replicating robot might be a step closer to the ultimate sci-fi nightmare and how you can build one yourself.

Ed Word: Welcome to the New MaximumPC!

Will Smith — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:59:22 -0500

We've finished our print redesign, and we're introducing new columnists. It's a banner month!

Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics

Robert Strohmeyer — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:26:13 -0500

Linux's open source image editor is packed with powerful features. Here's how to get started.

Bring on the PC of Tomorrow

Will Smith — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:56:59 -0500

Where are the lovingly-crafted, innovative cases of the future?

Adobe Photoshop Elements with Premiere Elements

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:45:53 -0600

The newest update to Photoshop Elements 4.0 is just a bunny hop forward from the previous iteration. Adobe really sweetens the deal, however, by bundling the home-user edition of Photoshop with the home-user version of Premiere—Premiere Elements 2.0.

Click Read More for more.