Here's my take on the math. I buy the 256GB for $500. Then I sell my old drive. You can buy a new 500 GB laptop drive on Newegg for $53 without even looking for a good deal, so I expect to get at best $40 minus shipping, eBay fees, and time spent listing and mailing it. So like $30 if I'm super generous with the…

@ivan256: "if it's still radioactive enough to worry about, then it still contains enough energy to be worth extracting"

@ivan256: How did you type all that without once realizing that you actually typed the solution: have the waste storage adjacent to the power plant. That is the lowest risk and best solution. And you think the activists are "morons"....

@StyxaT: I came here to say this. Clearly Ferran Adrià.

@aelver: Don't keep me in suspense, WHAT WILL HAPPEN????

It is impressive to see how many people on Gizmodo are aware of how flammable ping pong balls are. Seems there is a little bit of a pyro streak here.

@zads: Also, did you miss the part where I said I had a similar device in my lab right now?

@KirkyX: This is a really cool photo. Thanks for posting it.

@zads: Read my post. I never mentioned the hack job in the photo. I was disputing Ryan's claim that this was thermodynamically impossible. Which it isn't. Perhaps a beer fridge is underpowered but one could just use a higher powered fridge. My only claim here is that this is possible. And it is. Don't…

@Ryan Aylsworth: Is this what passes for proof these days, a forum post? Sure you could build a rig that runs hot, buy a low-porwe fridge, and put the fridge in a hot room. That would fail. But it wouldn't be hard to find a fridge that could handle it. You dismissed the idea entirely, citing thermo. That is…

Some commenters have astutely pointed out that this is not dangerously hot. This is true but not the point at all. The issue here is that if this waste is generating this much heat, it is considered high-level waste. In other words, the shit in the cans is nasty. In the US, there have been scandals involving the…

@Ryan Aylsworth: Ah, you are an idiot. Fridges are heat pumps. They pump heat from the interior to the exterior. Since this computer is inside, it will stay cool. The heat will be released into your room where it will dissipate. If room heat didn't dissipate, a single 10W light bulb would heat the room to over…

@zibzer: listen, these designers make an interesting product and all you can think to do is complain about some aspect of it that we can't even confirm. I think that's kind of lame and since this is the internet, I am free to say so. Perhaps I am "chillaxed" and I just think your comment sucks.

@aelver: Seems to be charging my iphone just fine.

@deenster: I have one of these and it emits a high pitch buzz i can hear across the room.

@ps61318: My roommate soaked my Global knife in bleach overnight. Came out with holes like swiss cheese.

@takeshi: Indeed. So true.

@Goopplesoft - Reliant Robin of whitenoise: After commenting here for years, one thing I've noticed is that a disproportionately high percentage of annoying starred commenters are from whitenoise. After all, it was created as a place for commenters to talk completely off topic, and thus is populated by people who do…

@ps61318: Perhaps, not familiar with much anime.

@uncledoobie: Without reading this article and using nothing more than common sense, I'd say you wait until your contract runs out, tell your carrier you are porting the number, do so, then get a new number from your carrier, then set up Google voice so that calls to your old number are forwarded to the new number.