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Hide a Hub in a Humidor?

Computers don't have to be ugly. One case-modder thinks outside the beige box to build an art deco wireless hub.

Posted 02.06.2004 at 1:56 pm 0 Comments

Dept.: You Built What?!

Investigator: Paul Wallich

Hardware: Wireless hub humidor

Time: 30?35 hours

Downside: Cigars fry

Jeffrey Stephenson's polished wood and chrome humidor sits gracefully in his living room, holding four dozen cigars, all dried to a crisp. That's because under the smokes lie a DSL modem; firewall and cache with 20GB of disk space; and a wireless hub streaming bits to and from every computer in his house.

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