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  • Tekserve closes fabled New York store, will auction off its Macintosh collection in September

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    An amazing collection of Apple and Mac history is going on the auction block next month.

    Tekserve, once the go-to third-party repair shop for Apple products in New York City, announced last month that it would be closing shop on August 15 after being in business since 1987. Now that Tekserve has officially closed shop, Apple fans will have the opportunity to purchase some museum-worthy vintage Apple and NeXT gear through auction.

    An assortment of the auction items are valued at relatively low prices and there’s even a Tekserve store sign up for grabs.

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  • Perhaps the Greatest Thing Ever

    It’s unassailably cool, a perfect combination of cats, programmable Arduino circuitry, LEDs, Twitter and the shell from your old eMac. Per creator Samuel Cox, you too can develop an eSleeper, which turned a hollowed-out eMac into a bed for his feline. Inside the shell is an Arduino Ethernet connected to an IR sensor, some LEDs and a sound shield. When the cat breaks the infrared beam it triggers the iconic Mac chime and turns on a series color-shifting LEDs for a little mood lighting. From there the clock starts ticking.



    When your gate decides it’s had enough napping and leaves the white plastic cocoon, tripping the IR sensor again, a random phrase is tweeted, along with the length of the cat’s siesta. Check out the video after the break to see the eSleeper in all its adorable DIY glory.

    Check the link for full instructions as to how to build your own.

    And you should, as it’ll give your cat one less reason to murder you for its own amusement.