JVC just introduced their GZ-MG47 (pictured) disk-based camcorder. The MG47 comes in at the low-end of the series with a 20GB hard drive capable of recording about 5-hours of MPEG-2 video quality (at highest quality settings) and features a single CCD for 1.3 megapixel snaps, and F1.2 lens capable of a 15x optical zoom. [...]

1) Hard Drive Laser Oscilloscope

2) Hard Drive Clock

3) Hard Drive Speakers 

4) Hard Drive Generator 

5) Hard Drive Wind Chimes

Alan Parekh over at Hacked Gadgets has compiled a list of the top five projects for a dead hard drive. This is a nice comprehensive list for those tech junkies with some time to kill [...]

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table)
TestDisk can run under

DOS (either real or in a Windows [...]