It sure didn’t take long to have modders working on the wii, including skins for it. Surfing around I found a site that sells a large variety of skins for your wii, a few I would even go for… if I owned a wii.
We have to be honest - when Nintendo changed the name [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 30th, 2006

Engadget has posted the proposed price of $1200 on the Optimus 103. And it’s for a keyboard with one of it’s bigger sellers gone. The color keys. They announced a switch to black and white a while ago, but I still hoped that the “extra” keys would still be color. [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 22nd, 2006

Celebrate the historical heritage of the modern Personal Computer..the way it should have been.
While charming in its reticence, the buzzing beige rectangle under a desk hardly seems a fitting aesthetic legacy for what is inarguably the most important invention of the last 100 years.
With a little creative anachronism, this project aims to retrocentrically create a [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 8th, 2006

ASUS-Lamborghini VX1 is an extreme and spectacular expression of the ASUS and Lamborghini spirit that, with the look alone, exudes power, speed, strength and beauty with Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology.
The ASUS-Lamborghini VX1 is based on the new Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology platform. The dual-core processing capabilities of the VX1 offers desktop level computing [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 3rd, 2006

Digital music is great but isn’t it a pity you can’t transfer your old records on to your computer? Well guess what? You can! That’s right vinyl lovers, thanks to the ingenious USB Turntable you can put all your LPs, 12″s and singles straight into your digital library.
Simply plug this chic little turntable into [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 30th, 2006

Fun with an old hard drive. Took the platters out of many hard drives and put them into one drive. Spin it up to speed and give it a nudge, then watch the fun.

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Patrick Havens on September 26th, 2006

Intel offers $1m for a Viiv-based Mac Mini killer
Intel will pay whoever designs what it reckons is the world’s coolest living room computer $1m. Apple’s Mac Mini might be a candidate, but despite the appearance of VP Phil Schiller during CEO Paul Otellini’s Intel Developer Forum - a first for the Mac maker - the [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 11th, 2006

Ben Heckendorn’s Xbox 360 laptop: best mod ever?
Every so often a mod comes along that’s so intricate, so amazing, so over the top, that words simply don’t do it justice (but we’ll try anyway). Ben Heckendorn’s Xbox 360 laptop is one such mod. Having garnered no small amount of fame from previous portable projects like [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 3rd, 2006

Fully Loaded PC, but Small Enough to Slip Between Books on a Shelf
Shuttle makes small PC’s for small spaces, like those under televisions, or on tiny desks next to fancy big-screen monitors. Its latest, the XPC X100, could fit into a cereal box.
The X100 is two inches thick and about the width and length [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 31st, 2006

Yet another toy for my Christmas shopping list has been unboxed (opened for the first time publically) at PVR Wire. Showing some things that are similar to previous models the Tivo 3 brings HD support as well as a HDMI, Ethernet and the usual mix connectors. With the support of 2 tuners, [...]

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