Laughing Squid Sponsors Leah Culver’s Laser Etched MacBook Pro

by Scott Beale on November 21, 2006 · 13 comments

Leah Culver

Leah Culver came up with a unique way to generate enough money to buy a new MacBook Pro. She works as an interface engineer at Instructables (a division of SQUID Labs) and one of the things they do is laser etching, so she sold ad space on the top of her MacBook Pro to several companies, who in turn had their logos laser etched on the surface. Laughing Squid was one of the sponsors (we are in the bottom left corner). Forget about stickers on laptops, laser etching is where it’s at.

Eddie Codel shot some video of the laptop laser etching process.

You be able to see Leah and her newly etched laptop on a future episode of Diggnation or on November 25th at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco.

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Leah Culver consigue un MacBook Pro gratis at MoreCoffeePlease.net // Artes Gráficas y Tendencias
November 22, 2006 at 8:21 am

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1 Eddie Codel November 21, 2006 at 6:40 pm

Leah should go on tour with her laptop to wifi cafes all across the country. Cafe geekerati all across the land will drool and bow down to her, as they should.

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2 atta November 21, 2006 at 11:53 pm

They should do this on Casts and bandages for those without health insurance.

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3 Wendy November 23, 2006 at 1:32 pm

That is a great idea. This is the first time I heard about laser etching but it looks like a cool thing. I could laser etch a few of my things too.

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4 Dave Mathews November 29, 2006 at 2:48 am

Scott, what was the $/cm ratio on this project? Forget $/pixels like the million dollar webpage! :)

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5 Scott Beale November 29, 2006 at 9:09 am

Dave: Leah lists that information on her website. It was $50 per square inch. So I guess to answer your question, it was roughly $19.69 per square cm.

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6 Brad P April 2, 2007 at 11:34 am

Dang… I want flames on mine. Forget pimping my ride, pimp my Mac… That’s sweet stuff.

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