Tag Archives: desktops

Cheese Wheel Case Mod Attracts House Rodents

It would be cheesy to call this case-mod “cheesy” just because it resembles a cheese wheel in both color and shape, but the Holland-native creator “always wanted a PC that looked like a wheel of cheese,� so he made one himself. He packed a hollow cheese display prop full of electronic goodness and even has included some fans on the ...

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Hacked! The ‘Oh Shit’ Flash Drive

Oh shit! Someone just ripped out my USB cable! Kidding. It’s just a USB flash drive. With two gigabytes of storage, this drive comes cut and frayed so everyone knows that you snagged your laptop off the desk while the printer was still connected. Or some asshole stole whatever was connected on the other side of that torn cord sticking ...

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Apple Sues Psystar, Demands Recall Of Clones

Apple knows cloning. It dealt with it throughout the 1980s and 1990s until it realized it just couldn’t work out. Apple killed the clones and today, it’s going strong with OS X and an assortment of hardware. This year, a company called Psystar started shadily selling Mac clones with a hacked version of Mac OS X on it. Caught up ...

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Keyboard Concept Featuring Two Chicks Making Out

Check out this keyboard. No physical keys required, here folks. It’s got a customizable face, the entire keyboard becomes a touchscreen, as if it had sex with an iPhone.� The idea is to utilize the keyboard as a screen, providing a limitless amount of personalization to its look and layout. It’s a concept called the Optimus Tactus keyboard from the ...

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Microsoft’s Arc Mouse Fits In Your Pocket But It’s A Tight Squeeze

Later this year, Microsoft will be retailing its new wireless mouse specifically designed for easy transit. Gone are the days of the tiny transportable mouse for your laptop that makes your hand look like an amputated limb from Andre The Giants body. It’s a full-sized mouse that folds into a space-saving form that’ll fit anywhere from your laptop case to ...

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NeXT! The First Web Server

Found on Wikipedia, this image is (purportedly) the first web server on the World Wide Web. It’s an old NeXTCube machine that Tim Berners-Lee used at the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland. In case you weren’t aware, our handsome publisher, Steve Rufer, is also from Geneva. So in honor of Steve Jobs and our dignity, we’re going to beg him ...

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Second Generation Drobo Improves Performance And Spank Bank

For the past few years, I’ve run out of storage space on my PC for all my pornography media files.� It’s a total bummer, considering the rest of my processes have to suffer due to a lack of porn-holding storage space.� The good news is that Data Robotics has launched the second-generation model of its award-winning Drobo enclosure. FireWire 800 ...

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USB Tube Speaker Glows Bright at Night

Brando, maker of all things cheap and USB, has graced us with yet-another beautiful USB-powered gadget. This time around, it’s an acrylic tube speaker with blue LEDs glowing inside it. Plug in your iPod/PC and get the tunes going while you play Crysis for hours on end. At $22, you’re not going to find anything better that’s in the same ...

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USB Chameleon Chills On Your Monitor

You can never have enough desktop companions cluttering your desk and cramping your monitor. This reptilian USB friend is indigenous to cum-ridden desks everywhere and comes in three extreme colors: green, orange and yellow. Just plug it into your computer and it’ll rotate its eyes and randomly flick its tongue. It’s almost like a real chameleon; a real chameleon made ...

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Need a Copy of Windows XP? Tough.

Today marks the end of an era. Microsoft will officially stop selling its hit OS, Windows XP, today. Sure, you can still get it via a shady OEM PC through Dell or HP but for the rest of us who just want a boxed copy, we’re out of luck. The move comes as Microsoft looks to shift its customers over ...

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