This idea is for those who build their own PCs or are into extensive PC modification. This would be a hardware-based firewall on a separate circuit board with a feed from a small butane cannister providing fuel for a ring of fire around the perimeter of the circuit board.

Obviously only really impressive if you've got a clear PC case, it would provide an obvious indicator of when your firewall was enabled. It could also be set to flare up when a malicious network packet was intercepted.
-- hippo, Jul 10 2004

A rather garish PC mod http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/rtl/
See this, and the other examples on this site. [hippo, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(?) Orac^3 http://bit-tech.net/article/135/
Coolest case mod EVAR! Though the firewall might be better. [5th Earth, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Beer! http://www.asciimat....nz/beer/index.html
Because 5th Eart is lazy and I can't quite be bothered to go to sleep. [RobertKidney, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

ALl the good one's on one page http://www.mini-itx...cts.asp#project0084
Same as hippo's link, but selection of different ones altogether [goff, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Or you could have the fake fire where you have celophane of orange and yellow in a fan with lights. Still a nice effect. +
-- sartep, Jul 11 2004


[Tabs] Traditionally, yes, the aim of PC modding was to overclock but now modding is done for all sorts of other cosmetic purposes (see link).
-- hippo, Jul 11 2004


Given that the fuel source can act as a refrigerant, [Tabs] may be on to something there. Attach the fuel canister to the CPU as an auxiliary heatsink to help carry away excess heat.
-- half, Jul 11 2004


This could also be used as a flame grill if you modified the CD drive to accept toast ...
-- Aristotle, Jul 11 2004


The suggestion to use it as a coolant reminds me of the jet-powered beer cooler. I can't be bothered to find a link, but a guy used propane evaporation to cool his beer, and to get rid of the propane vapor he made a turbojet out of a car's turbocharger.
-- 5th Earth, Jul 11 2004


Fire inside my PC sounds like an utterly reckless idea, but then so does water-cooling, and people seem to be able to get that to work, so why not? [+]

Also, why not extend the flame to around the whole motherboard, as some sort of crazed anti-physical tampering device. Entirely unnecessary, but it would look great.
-- iivix, Jul 11 2004


Firewalls are originally intended to prevent unauthorized access to your pc, so why not mount the flame nozzle in the keyboard and employ this as a anti-user device?
-- venomx, Jul 11 2004


I love the idea of a physical firewall, although gas leaks might be a little unpleasant.
-- RobertKidney, Jul 11 2004


I hadn't thought about it properly before, but extending this idea to the 'corporate' firewall would require an entire building, rather than individual circuit boards or computers, to have a ring of fire around it...
-- hippo, Jul 15 2004



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