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How about a cardboard box? It could be a modified regular box or you 
could custom make a light weight box (folding?) to suit the laptop. 
The computer would weigh down the box to keep it from blowing in the 
wind. You might only need 2 sides that form a corner to give you a 
less enclosed space.
Don Stidsen
MIT Museum



At 5:10 PM -0400 6/30/05, Carolyn Slivinski wrote:
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>We are planning an activity which would require the use of a laptop
>computer outside, for about a half hour at a time.  Satellite imagery
>would be displayed on the screen, and the public would view the image on
>the laptop.  Since the activity specifically concerns sunlight
>measurements, we cannot do the activity in the shade, and no reasonable
>shade exists nearby for the computer itself.  A dark "privacy screen"
>filter dims the image so much it becomes invisible.  Commercial
>sunshades for laptops project only a few inches from the front of the
>screen, and look too small to do the job.
>
>Has anyone successfully used a laptop outside in sun for personal or
>public use?  Or have advice on building a real hood, like photographers
>used way back when? 
>
>Carolyn Slivinski
>Education Dept.
>Maryland Science Center
>601 Light St.
>Baltimore, MD  21230
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