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My PC mod pic of the day was built by a young German modder named “Froop”. It’s an awesome Chernobyl-based PC case he calls “Unit 4”. It also has some themes from the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. For a closer look at all of the painstaking detail he put into this, see the rest of the story! […]
Chiaroscuro case mod by Nick Falzone @ bit-etch via Gizmodo. Nick, or Greensabbath as he’s also known in some modding circles, is renowned for his incredible mastery of all woods that grow. While you’d think trees would fear him coming, we’d actually guess they’d be proud to end up in one of his carpentry wonders. […]
The new micro-sized “netbook” laptops that have popped up this year are quite nifty, but unfortunately for Mac users, none of them ship with OS X. Fortunately, while you wait for Apple to release their own model, you can hack most standard PC netbooks to run a patched version of OS X. Dan from Uneasy […]
“Control Structure” by Australian artist Sam Smith is a sculpture and interactive installation built from hoop pine plywood, maple plywood, polyester resin, fiberglass, an LCD monitor and other materials. From the description: “A large digital video zoom lens extrudes from one eye socket like a bionic appendage, while the other eye is caved in and […]
What will be big in 2009? Leather keyboards via Giz.
imp558 at the Hacked Gadgets forums writes– …I tend to do some wierd things being a long time technician and closet robotics enthusiast. Hopefully you guys will appreciate my portable desktop. After stuff I had laying around it cost me about $300. These pics don’t show the chrome trim around the monitor (added later), and […]
Soak It to Me: Inside Liquid-Suspended Gaming PC @ Wired– Looking for a beefy gaming rig, and don’t mind getting your hands a little wet? Hardcore Computer’s Reactor might just be the 100-pound computational monolith for you. Crafted from 2.5mm-thick aircraft aluminum and packed with powerful hardware, the Reactor is already a fairly striking and […]
