This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

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I’m not typically a fan of anything having to do with football, but this is pretty cool.  It took two years, 1000 hours and over a million Lego bricks, but in the end Ohio State physiology and cell biology professor Paul Janssen managed to create a stunningly accurate 1/100 scale (8-foot by 6-foot) model of his university’s football stadium.

Many of the bricks were acquired online from traders, but Janssen estimates that if he were to buy all of the bricks he used for the stadium brand new, it would have cost him $50-$75,000.

He hopes to display he creation on campus and use it to help raise funds for his research on heart failure and muscular dystrophy. The stadium can be filled with 6000 Lego characters that could represent the individual donors.