For those do-it-yourselfers out there, here’s a pretty neat hack — make a USB fan out of two CD’s and a toilet paper tube (and a few wires).

Of course, as the comments suggests, it might take off an ear. But what’s an ear in the service of experimentation?

Or, as another commenter exclaims, ” grazie marcè!!!!” and ” WoW…! Fantastico…! ” or ” Buono se ti si rompe la ventola del processore”.

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