Comments on: X-Rayed X-Boxes (And Other Video Game Consoles)

X-Rayed X-Boxes (And Other Video Game Consoles)

Effigy2000 — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:28:39 -0800

Reinier van der Ende, an x-ray technician at the largest hospital in the northern part of the Netherlands, decided to combine his work with one of his hobbies and proceeded to x-ray his collection of video game consoles, peripherals and game cartridges. Here are the fruits of his labour.

There's also an x-ray of an X-Box 360 that dosen't appear to be part of the main set (it's part of this subset). No indications of whether its red-ringed or not, though. [via]

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:30:48 -0800

Oh good god this is great. Please add the "Nerdgasm" tag. Thx.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:38:22 -0800

Wow, you can really tell how simple the circuits on the 8-bit stuff are

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:41:02 -0800

The Wii Nunchuck has my vote for the most creature-like.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:42:25 -0800

Reinier van der Ende is often seen hanging around the airport x-ray machine drooling at the laptops sailing past. Security Guard #1 Should we report him? Security Guard #2 Nah, he's harmless.

By: FishBike

FishBike — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:43:49 -0800

Never has [more inside] seemed so appropriate.

By: localroger

localroger — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:47:07 -0800

There's no Atari 2600. This set is useless without a shot of Stella.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:53:14 -0800

Obligatory Powerbook G4 xray.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:55:59 -0800

This is awesome.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:14:32 -0800

I'd love to get that NES zapper, sans-text, on a shirt. (Would probably need to vector-trace it first, not hard with a large scan.) Maybe I should ask the guy if I can use his photo. :)

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:18:15 -0800

localroger: "There's no Atari 2600." Yes there is, actually.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:38:21 -0800

I'll be impressed when someone carbon-dates them.. and... no pong?

By: HumanComplex

HumanComplex — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:57:20 -0800

I love my PS3 even more now.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:09:23 -0800

Pong wouldn't fit inside the x-ray machine.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:35:42 -0800

But can he see their souls?

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:07:38 -0800

There were pranks, some engineers love pranks and good for them.

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:56:16 -0800

Good thing he wasn't an MRI technician instead. YT: Ceramic coffee cup being crushed by a wrench pulled from across the room when the MRI machine is turned on. The game consoles would come through a lot more Cubist-looking than in the X-rays, I think, if they have any magnets or ferrous metal in them.

By: Coobeastie

Coobeastie — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:22:00 -0800

It might be because of what I'm working on at the moment but all I could think was "Who authorised that? Does the hospital know he's wasting their money on that? Did this affect patient waiting times?" I think I'm just a different sort of geek :) (Cool pics as well, once my inner health economist stopped having a benny)

By: cupcakeninja

cupcakeninja — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:13:19 -0800

Suit: "To be perfectly frank, we've surveyed over three hundred worlds and no one's ever reported a gaming peripheral which, using your words 'gestates in a competitor company's gaming system' and has 'concentrated molecular acid for blood.'" Gamer: "Look, I can see where this is going. But I'm telling you those things exist. Out behind that Gamestop is a foreign cargo container and on that container are thousands of Wii Nunchuks. Thousands. Do you understand? I suggest you find it, using the GPS data. Find it and deal with it -- before one of your 'secret shoppers' comes back with a little surprise." Suit: "Thanks, 'bro.' That will be--" Gamer: "--because just one of those things managed to kill my entire vintage console collection, within twelve hours of hatching. BOOM, and there was Atari confetti all over my garage." Suit: "Thank you, that will be all." Gamer: "That's not all, Goddammit! If those things make it to the shelves, that will be all. Then you can just kiss your market share good-bye, Jack! Just kiss it goodbye."

By: tehloki

tehloki — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:53:35 -0800

Wow. I'm startled at the sheer difference in actual size and complexity of the SNES and N64 cartridges (super mario 64 and ocarina of time especially).

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:32:09 -0800

Having done a bunch of this kind of thing myself, let me offer up a protip: You can paint, preferably airbrush, various componets with iodine to balance the exposure for different materials. (Iodine will make the too-light parts darker.)