UFO-Hayashi, famed Japanese gadget artist, applied his Midas Touch to an Acer Aspire One and gave the budget netbook a fully-loaded MacBook Air price tag. Question is, would you travel with a $US3,000 netbook?
Sometimes, one size doesn’t fit all, which is why Radiopaq has come out with custom-tuned earbuds that specifically bring out the best quality in either Jazz, Pop, Classical or Rock.
Never have I ever seen a Transformer this cool: a custom Master Chief Transformer on eBay that goes from being a Spartan soldier to—not just any old car—an actual Warthog LRV. ZOMG.
We like wood. We like the iPhone. We like deep-fried hot dogs with rooster sauce. That’s completely unrelated, but we really like them. As much as this wooden replacement case for the iPhone 3G.
Not everything is pretty in Apple land. This custom clear replacement case bares your iPhone 3G naughty bits completely naked. Some people hate it, some people love it, we just ogle. [icustom]
As Gus over at Lifehacker pointed out a bit earlier today, Google has sent out an email promising that SearchWiki – a technology that lets you rate search results – is launching in Australia sometime today.
It doesn’t seem to have gone live just yet, but we managed to track down a video of it in action after the jump:
Behold, every custom PC fanboy’s wet dream: The Reactor. It’s a sleek, black aluminium case with tons of hard drives (both swappable and integrated), an ultra-powerful processing chip, and three top-of-the-line video cards all begging to be overclocked thanks to the company’s special oil submersed cooling system. That’s right, the GPUs, CPU, power supplies, custom motherboard and three SSD drives are all completely dipped in oil. And it’s only around $US4000.
That $US1,200 Blu-ray player from Yamaha that Mark wrote off back in August is being released in Australia, and the sad news is that it still has all the same issues – a rather high price tag (the Aussie version will cost you $1,499), no inbuilt HD audio decoding (you’ll still need a receiver to do that), and no support for the latest BD Profile 2.0 (it supports BD Profile 1.1).
So why would you buy the Yamaha Blu-ray player then? They asked themselves the very same question, and their response came down to three things: The Yamaha brand name, which offers a two year factory warranty on their products and premium customer support; the fact that you can output across multiple outputs (HDMI, component, composite) simultaneously; and the fact that at the moment, this Yamaha is the only Blu-ray player with an RS-232 interface for custom installations.
From our point of view, only the last one holds any sort of appeal – if you’re aiming for a high-end AV setup with some form of home automation, the RS-232 interface is not just important, but imperative.
Yet, we’d still recommend you wait – in 12 months time when every Blu-ray movie has some form of BD-Live component, you’ll be kicking yourself for not holding out for their next generation player, regardless of how many features you can control from your fancy Crestron controller…
[Yamaha]
I’m not sure who is getting the Magic Treehouse Bedroom that is currently being constructed by the craftsman at Kidtropolis, but I’m jealous. When I was a kid, I didn’t have any fancy indoor treehouse to sleep in–just a cot and some newspaper. Still, I am not too bitter to recognise the artistry that goes into making a custom bedroom of this calibre. Just don’t let your kids see it–unless you have a lot of money to burn that is. [Kidtropolis via Wired GeekDad] galleryPost('kidtropolis', 3, '');
This custom case mod made for Bit-Tech is just eye-grabbingly bizarre… from the outside alone. Built by a guy called Craig, Bloo Balls was over a year in the making, which included and a whole lot of careful design, redesign and fabrication. There’s a mass of careful plexiglass-carving in there, including a hand-made, custom-crafted liquid cooling system for both P4 processor and northbridge. Plumbing and CPUs don’t often mix, which is why the build included one fried motherboard. Check out the gallery: it’s amazing, inside and out. So amazing, it almost warrants its own genre name… we’re just wondering what to call it.
