A surge suppressor built into a PC power supply unit that senses voltage overload and ejects the PSU from the case, preferably with a shower of sparks. Also, a spring release mechanism that blows the side door of the PC case at every BSOD (GSOD on Macs) while simultaneously emitting a small cloud of smoke tinted with the odor of fried circuitry.
['BSOD' is the all too familiar Microsoft Blue Screen of Death. 'GSOD' is the somewhat less frequently seen (possibly becasue there are fewer Macs?) Apple equivalent in Grey.]-- nuclear hobo, May 07 2007 (?) BSOD http://content.tech...881-3882.html?seq=1 [nuclear hobo, May 07 2007] PC Toster http://www.theinqui....aspx?article=25321Perhaps you could implement this idea in the machine linked. [zen_tom, May 07 2007] Misdirection Adapter Card Misdirection_20Adapter_20CardA related invention, designed to be intentionally invoked. [krelnik, May 08 2007] Re-installing Windows http://www.langston...e/1997/1997AUL.html[Abs], you can take off the US Biker-cop uniform now - Hang on, that doesn't sound right [Dub, May 09 2007] In case this is important, can you explain what a BSOD or GSOD is?-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 07 2007 <to the tune of Village People's "YMCA"> Blue Screen Of Death </tttovpymca>-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, May 07 2007 BSOD / GSOD description added to the idea for the currently unsinkable.-- nuclear hobo, May 07 2007 Ah - thanks [unclear].
<smug Mac-user voice> I don't think Macs have the GSOD feature any more - the entire "Freeze" function seems to be missing with OS-X.</sMuv)-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 07 2007 <2nd smug Mac-user voice> Yes, that paticular problem has not arisen for me either, even though I can remember shutting my machine down properly about three times in the last year and a half. </2sMuv)-- nomocrow, May 08 2007 //Ah - thanks [unclear].//
Sorry, but that's 'nuclear'.-- nuclear hobo, May 08 2007 //Sorry, but that's 'nuclear'// You're quite right - my apologies. I sometimes come over all anagrammatical.-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2007 I now have an overwhelmiing urge to post a music-based idea involving a nuclear oboe.-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2007 "Oboe" is a series of sub-critical explosive nuclear tests carried out by the DoE at the Nevada Test Site. Some argue that these tests are a violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.-- nuclear hobo, May 08 2007 And somebody ought to tell the London Symphony Orchestra. They're playing with fire.-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2007 nuclear hobo actually becomes Uncle Boar Ho. Anagrammatically that is.-- bungston, May 09 2007 or <wistfully> bachelor uno.-- nuclear hobo, May 09 2007 // I run a headless linux machine, so there's no screen // ... so, um, [Ian], how do you know what's going on here? Is that a USB port behind your left ear? Did you get your initials from *being* the server? Do you lock up sometimes?-- lurch, May 09 2007 It would be nice if it made a sort of 'BOINGG' noise, too, and something came out on a spring-- Mister Sketchly, May 09 2007 random, halfbakery