Flickr Find: Star Trek etched MacBooks and iPods

Hi - this is Karina from Etchstar... I love the internet-- I uploaded a huge batch of photos two days ago and before I had a chance to edit or organize them, a couple people picked up on some of our special projects! Kudos to TUAW for having their finger on the pulse! When we launch our new website next week, we'll have a huge library of licensed artwork from a pretty diverse group of brands, bands, graphic designers, emerging artists as well as entertainment properties. Our motto is "For Artists, By Artists" and we are working to create a space in which authors can create, share and be compensated for their designs. We hope that our samples gallery will be helpful in showing what laser etching ultimately looks like.... with many more images on the way ;) Feel free to email us with questions.... ~k

looks like they have taken the photos down.

I'm a little surprised there isn't a borg one.

I do agree with kyre, though. I couldn't do it to my Macbook. Someone else's on the other hand . . .

Hmm, that makes me want to etch the Enterprise D on my MacBook Pro...

I can't believe those people ruined such beautiful laptops!

Star Trek... hmm that'd be cool to have on your Mac if they ever port Mac OS to intel chips.

I give it a week until we see the first story about Viacom cracking down on the copyright-infringing Mac etchers...

then if you have K-9 etched into your Mac you are pushing into "dorkus malorkus" territory?

Well, to push myself firmly into the "dork" camp, I have to do the old Trekkie correction: The Enterprise pictured above is the original. As one Montgomery Scott said, "No bloody A, B, C, or D."

That's not Enterprise-A, that's just plain ol' Enterprise NCC-1701 (the original, non-refit Constitution-class -- or "Starship-class" if you listen to one episode rather than the other -- ship).