Seems acrylic bongs weren’t enough. Now acrylic case mods are all the rage. Of course, this also makes your computer easily modifiable and upgradeable because everything isn’t packed away in some wheel of cheese. Adding and removing cards, memory and storage has never been easier.

The acrylic cases were designed by Digital Cowboy who are calling it the Acrylic Cowboy. Several different styles are available, ranging from the standard orange platform, to the bad ass smoke gray design which places your motherboard at a special 25-degree angle, ensuring without any doubt that you’re one extreme dude. Now, if you put your PC in a black box case mod, you’ll be anything but extreme. They’re available in Japan from $37 to $101, but be warned, these case mods are not water-proof. Take a flight, don’t swim, or you’ll be drinking your own urine for hydration.

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According to Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News, Microsoft’s successor to the current XBox 360 “Falcon” motherboard will be named Jasper–and it will feature a 65-nanometer ATI graphics chip and smaller memory chips. This should go a long way in reducing cost and the heat issues that have plagued the platform since it’s launch.

If this information is correct, we will have to wait a year for another 360 price drop and a system that is truly reliable. A little too long iif you ask me. But if you want to play Halo 3 now (and believe me you do) you had better bit the bullet on this one, or get some nerdier friends.—Sean Fallon

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While the computer has come a long way since its rise, the last two decades have proven to be rather uninteresting concerning the case design of most computers. The same old rectangular tower is still the norm for most PC’s. A company named Slipperyskip Computers has been experimenting by putting small motherboards into some interesting cases. Including coolest of all, this retro toaster of old.

Being named the DECOmputer, the original toaster was said to be perfect for modding. Dripping of retro and deco style. The old timer toaster was modernized by stripping it of its original innards and inserting a Kontron motherboard, including 1.8 MHz Pentium M Processor, 40 GB hard drive, and 1 GB of RAM. A very cool project indeed.

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So you think since you have a nice winter jacket for this winter season that you’re all set, huh? Well what about your poor little laptop? You walk around in your down stuffed coat while little Lappie freezes its motherboard off. Lapstyle is the answer! Lapstyle Laptop Covers are fuzzy little exteriors for your laptop to kick the style up a notch while keeping your laptop happy through the cold days. It looks like shag carpeting for your notebook. We think these covers are geared towards our female audience, but their are a few that seem pretty cool for both sexes actually. And with titles ranging from The Bear, The Beast all the way to “Deadly Pink”, we can safely say Lapstyle offers a unisex line of covers. — Andrew Dobrow

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