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Rig of the Week: Newsstand Mac mini


Scott Walker sends in his seriously cool Mac mini mod which, after careful deliberation, we declare our Rig of the Week. Scott is the assistant managing editor at The Birmingham News (Alabama), and decided to build a Mac project around an old newspaper vending machine. As you can see, he's basically mounted a 17" LCD in the newspaper window. Using a Mac mini, GraphicConverter, PhotoPresenter and some AppleScripts, it displays the top half of newspaper front pages as gathered each day from the Newseum. A big TUAW 'attaboy to Scott for combining new- and old-school technology in such a clever way!



Scott Walker sends in his seriously cool Mac mini mod which, after careful deliberation, we declare our Rig of the Week. Scott is the...
 

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Ben the Dog

Great little rig - v cool idea.

July 23 2007 at 12:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nedsta

This is ancient. Isn't there some area of the vast iPhone content base left to be covered?!?

July 22 2007 at 9:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

Now THAT deserves Rig of the Week! That's a really cool way to "frame" the pictures!

July 22 2007 at 4:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adrian vG

But why that large lamp inside?

July 22 2007 at 3:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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