Since we're not foolish enough to sacrifice our own expensive electronics in the name of culinary science, we caught wind of this neat trick from reader Brett, who decided to have a little fun with his not-under-warranty 'Box after the red lights of death made their dreaded appearance.

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Sorry, no freebies in the box like your Xmas tree lights -- we tried.

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Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.

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Yixing Xinwei processes and refines rare-earth mineral compounds, which are used in a variety of products from semiconductors to fluorescent lights (see accompanying box).

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As seen in the screenshot above, closed captions, face match, quality and buffering options have their own submenu now, while the toggles, pop-out and lower lights have been moved into a box below the player.

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Before the play begins, with the house lights up, Ms. Shaw takes her place encased in a glass box stage right, dressed more or less like the image of Mary we've seen in churches and on candles.

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Custom shops can cut out logos on the side and light them with neon rope lights, add blue-green LEDs to the fans inside or give the box a custom paint job.

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