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Physics, how we love you. You keep our feet on the ground, ontologically-ambiguous cats locked in boxes and photons in two places at the same time. It also enables the Peltier effect, what’s that we hear you breathlessly ask? If a current is passed between two different materials a heat differential is created; one side hot the other cold. The principle is used in all sorts of situations including cooling processors and mini-fridges, though apparently they’re not that efficient, just small and light.

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We don’t have any facts or any figures, but if you ask us we’d be certain that broken laptop screens account for a good number of trashed laptops. If you’re confronted with a bill that runs into the hundreds of pounds then the financial outlay will make no sense, even for a system that’s just a few years old. Especially when you consider an entire new laptop could cost as little as £300 (or less if you got for one of those tiny netbook jobs). The good news is that while replacement panels used to cost £200 – even before you’d have to pay someone to fit it – these days, replacement panels can cost as little as £64 and with a little know-how are easily installed yourself. We were lucky enough to stumble across our new friends at www.accupart.co.uk up in Manchester

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What can you make from a laptop that has a broken screen (other than an oversized and rather ugly paperweight)? The cheapest and easiest option is to put the lappie to good use serving up delicious files. Sure, that option is about as sexy as most people find a furry in spandex pants, but a file server can be damn handy. You can stream music and video from it, use it to download that 2GB Batman demo, or just merrily torrent your socks off

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