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 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.
They should do this on Casts and bandages for those without health insurance.
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.
Scott, what was the $/cm ratio on this project? Forget $/pixels like the million dollar webpage! :)
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.
Dang… I want flames on mine. Forget pimping my ride, pimp my Mac… That’s sweet stuff.