Am not too sure if that X-ray machine at the Airport security checkpoint can damage the components of a laptop but if you are curious to know how your laptop might appear to the security guy inside, here are some real pictures.

The images was captured by Nick Veasey who uses X-Rays to capture the inner photographs of everyday objects like a city bus, an iPod, his shoes, the remote of a TV and even a full-size Boeing 777 jet.

You can downloads Nick’s collection as a PDF file or head over to Telegraph for his more recent work.

If you’ve ever built your own computer and had to troubleshoot problems on your own, you know how important the right power supply is. Having a solid power supply from a reputable manufacturer can mean the difference between years of stability and random crashes, shutdowns, and in some cases instances where your computer won’t even turn on. Thankfully, Newegg’s Power Supply Calculator is designed to help you understand the power draw of the components you plan to install in your new computer. The calculator can even help you get a feel for whether your current power supply is beefy enough to handle that graphics card upgrade you’ve been pondering.

The calculator itself is simple. There are drop-down menus for the type of CPU you have or want to install in your new computer, the motherboard you’ll use, and the graphics card you’ll install (and a quantity menu for those folks planning systems with multiple graphics cards). The calculator also asks what type of memory you plan to install, the number of DIMMs, the optical drive you’re going to use, and which hard drive will make up the heart of your system. If you’re planning to use more than one optical drive or hard drive, you can select however many you plan to install.

Once you’ve made all of your selections, click Calculate and you’ll see a total of how much wattage your proposed configuration will draw. Using that information, you can decide whether your existing power supply has enough juice to handle what you’re planning or which power supply you should buy for your new rig. For example, if you’re planning to build a new system full of components that will draw about 475W, you may be able to get away with a 450W power supply, but if you’re squeamish at the thought of under-budgeting power, you might move up to a 500W unit.

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It appears that some time over the weekend, YouTube began experimenting with 3D videos. According Youtube "developer working on the stereoscopic player as a 20% project". "It’s currently very early, hence the silly bugs like swapping the eyes for the anaglyph modes."

The parameters to view such a video are:

• yt3d:enable=true Enables the view mode. (obviously you’ve already discovered this)
• yt3d:aspect=3:4 Sets the aspect of the encoded video.
• yt3d:swap=true Swaps the left and right sources. You may need to add this to videos when the player with fixed anaglyph modes ships. Apologies for the inconvineince.
• yt3d:left=0_0.1_0.5_0.9 and yt3d:right=0.5_0.1_1_0.9 These tags are very provisional and most useful for fixing up old videos. They set the source area for each eye as pairs of coordinates x1_y1_x2_y2. The scale of these coordinates is 0,0 for the the top left down to 1,1 for the bottom right.

If you want to experience the 3D videos, here’s the link @ youtube.

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Hardware hacking genius and electromagician JKK has published a video tutorial showing how to add an internal 3G HSDPA card to the Asus Eee PC, allowing you to connect at high speeds to the internet from anywhere in the world with 3G cellphone coverage. We talked with JKK, and according to him “it works great” and “the hack is doable by any amateur with a soldering iron.” Indeed, it looks easy enough for our sausage fingers in the video.

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