“Kyle Downes of the aptly named “Ultra Awesome” blog built this genius coffee table that’s an enormous, working NES controller! It opens to reveal storage space for tons of game-carts.”
Engadget: “Although NVIDIA’s pledged to simplify its lineup
for consumers and ATI’s been getting better, the current state of the
graphics card market is still a pretty wild alphabet soup of model
numbers and specs lists, so the crew over at The Tech Report decided to
break things down using the only stat that matters: price. While the
results aren’t exactly shocking (surprise: more dollars equals more
FPS), what’s interesting is that multi-GPU rigs are really quite
cost-effective, delivering performance on par with higher-end cards at
significantly lower prices. For example, two Radeon HD 3850s run nearly
as fast as a single Radeon HD 3870 X2, even though they cost a fair bit
less, and two GeForce 9600 GTs can potentially outgun a GeForce 8800
Ultra. That’s always been the promise of SLI and CrossFire, and it
looks like it’s paying off — any system-builders out there care to
share their experiences?”
“Granted, the Hell’s Illusion Mini PC is a mod that only a lifetime Fangoria
subscriber could love. Luckily, I am that subscriber. Who needs a Mac
Mini when you can drive your home media center with a computer powered
by the frickin’ Lament Configuration? Utterly ridiculous, but I don’t care. Truly, a computer for explorers in the further regions of experience… demons to some, angels to others, Vista users to all. Jesus wept.”
The Hell’s Illusion PC [Techeblog]
Slashdot: “”David Roberson, general manager of Hewlett-Packard’s StorageWorks
division, predicts that by 2013 the storage industry will be shipping a
yottabyte (a billion gigabytes) of storage capacity annually. Roberson
made the comment in conjunction with HP introducing a new rack system
that clusters together four blade servers and three storage arrays with
820TB of capacity. Many vendors are moving toward this kind of
platform, including IBM, with its recent acquisition of Israeli startup
XIV, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters.”
I admit, I drooled over this too….
Digg: “We knew that there was a motorized, fully-articulated R2-D2 projector
with built-in DVD, iPod dock, all kinds of digital media inputs, and
Millennium Falcon remote control, but we never—EVER—imagined it would
be so amazingly drooltastic as this video shows.” I can’t believe this.
*must*resist*buying*impulse*
“Every Mac comes with a long, bulky power cord and a small 2-prong
nub. You can interchange them, but both are far from optimal for travel
and field work (i.e. conference/convention blogging).
Here’s my fix: use a power cord from a Sony PlayStation. There are
other cords that will also fit into the Mac power brick, but the
PlayStation cord is easy to find. Where the Mac power cord is too thick
to easily coil or toss in a bag — and has a ground prong so it’s
limited to those types of AC outlets — the PlayStation cord is
ostensibly perfect. It fits into the Mac power brick, coils up nice and
small and has two prongs. Plus, you can leave your giant Mac cord at
your desk back home and don’t have to deal with dust bunnies every time
you get ready to go out the door. I always keep one PlayStation cable
stashed in my bag, so I only have to transfer the brick to the bag.
This trick’s good for any Mac laptop from the last 4-5 years, I’d
guess, if not longer. In the last four years, I’ve used it on a 12 inch
PowerBook, 13 inch MacBook, MacBook air and 2 MacBook pros. There used
to be a video game where you had to fit shapes into brackets before an
entire rig blows up. Can’t remember what it’s called, but that mindset
is kind of how I first recognized the shape on the Mac plug.”
Oh lord…
“Okay, so maybe tapping that space bar repeatedly in mixed company wouldn’t be entirely
appropriate, but if you’ve actually managed to mingle with fellow
civilians while rocking these, they aren’t likely to mind. Dreamed up
and designed by Erik De Nijs, these über-geeky pants
boast a built-in keyboard that’s apparently Bluetooth-enabled. Beyond
that, you’ll also find sewn in speakers, a pocket made especially for
travel mice of all flavors and a “joystick controller” strategically
located just behind the front zipper (saywha?). Hate all you like, we
just penned this very post on a pair of these bad boys. Only kidding.”
“Dell’s Bamboo-cased mini-PC is about the most beautiful thing the company—often derided as the dullest
of PC manufacturers—has produced. Ostensibly an eco-friendly thing, its
real appeal of this wooden machine is its simple, well-designed beauty.
It is an item of good taste, though it is also available in plastic
tat.
At CES this year, Dell gave me and other writers a look at
prototypes it probably will never take to market. These devices were
universally gorgeous, inventive and cleverly designed. The only thing
from this team/division to see the light of day, I think, is the
crystal LCD monitor that’s now getting some unfortunate reviews.
Dell’s new computer, specs undisclosed, will be available later this year at a “likely” price of $500-$700.”
Pictures of Dell’s Eco Bamboo Computer [Earth2Tech]
“I love these light-fixtures made from obsolete CRTs from Technoscrap (whose site, unfortunately, has no way to directly link to them, hence the link to Make).
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Is Kyle Bean’s
laptop design our age’s equivalent of a pistol hidden in a bible? The
answer is “No,” but I still prefer the idea of it being a violence
facilitator for literary ninjas, rather than yet another comment on the
changing nature of media in an increasingly virtual world.
Next: in the thick of battle, the villain springs onto a table to
grab what briefly appears to be an ornamental wall-mounted axe, but
finds himself wielding a slimline iPod dock.”
The Future of Books [Yanko]
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