Swede and Apple enthusiast Anders Norman saw his every possession melted and charred in a cataclysmic home conflagration that gutted his entire apartment.
The only item left standing? His aluminum iMac: dirty, singed, partly melted, but still cheerily humming along.
According to Norman’s blog post (translated from Swedish):
Unfortunately, the whole house and all of my possessions were completely destroyed… except for my iMac. While it’s been damaged from smoke and dust, and while it is now partially melted, it still works!
After I plugged in the burned power cord and wiped soot off the screen, I pressed the melted start button, hoping for nothing. Imagine my surprise when the startup sound played from the speakers, the screen turned on and the machine connected to my home wireless network.
Even the mouse still works, complete with scroll wheel. I booted up Firefox and was even able to quickly find an article about the fire from a local paper. Fantastic!
Given the skin-blistering temperatures that emanate through the skin of the aluminum iMac when its bellows are full blast, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the iMac — like a dragon brewing fire in its belly — is invulnerable to inferno.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
