Among my favourites were the alarm clock, the CyberShot, the old-school Discman (I have one like it hiding in a drawer!), the PSP and, of course, the PlayStation 3.

Those are the Sony toys which got my attention, but you can check out the rest of the gadget porn over at Wired, and then maybe make some of your own. [Wired]

You can get the above wallpaper right here and one that’s even more up close and personal, right here. [iFixIt]

The Apple logo integrates the AirPort antenna. Metal impedes wireless signals, which is one reason the plastic white MacBook has historically had a better Wi-Fi range than the unibodies.

Beyond that point, iFixit’s teardown reveals that in order to cool the desktop-sized processor, the CPU and GPU were placed on complete opposite ends of the computers and fitted with their own heat sinks. The entire system includes “six temperature sensors, three fans, and two gigantic heat sinks”.

And one piece of disappointment: the iMac’s mini DisplayPort is run through its logic board, meaning the computer needs to be on if you want the iMac to serve as a second monitor. [iFixit]

Major findings (and we use the word major so loosely we might as well not have bothered): The Magic Mouse uses the Broadcom BCM2042 Bluetooth chip, it’s covered in capacitive sensors from the Apple logo on up, and it’s hard to break into. Science fails to beat magic once again. [iFixit]

Yes, people, this is the iFixit teardown of a Blendtec Total blender — the ones from those Will It Blend? videos that we basically stopped writing about sometime in early 2007. It’s nice to see you again, Tom. Sorta.

The guts in this teardown are decidedly cruder than the carefully-designed gadget innards typical to these kinds of teardowns, which makes sense: this isn’t a pocket-sized piece of careful industrial design, this is a commercial grade blender. It transcends gadgetry by powderising it, or something!

And even though the blender is clearly unplugged and, er, disarmed, the whole thing feels like a higher-stakes affair. Maybe it’s the 1500-watt motor or the 28,000rpm rotor, or you know, the blades. [iFixit]

• You can dissect the Go with a standard Phillips #0
• Sony still uses 802.11b Wi-Fi
• Battery not soldered to board
• No metal framework (the structural integrity relies on outer plastic shell)
• Sony processor, Samsung’s 16GB of RAM (in case you cared)

Even though iFixit is pretty positive you can slide the battery out and leave the sticker intact, it’s pretty lousy for Sony to hide a component that will need not-so eventual replacing under a warranty-voiding seal. Also, the lack of an internal framework (or much real metal) matches our impressions of the Go’s somewhat flimsy, plastic feel.

Couple these two points and add a sliding mechanism, and it’s hard to imagine how well a Go will hold up two to three years down the line. Then again, Sony is probably banking on you replacing the Go with another new product by then anyway, just like every other CE company. [iFixit]

Major Component Breakdown:

2GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
$US118.35

GeForce 9400M
$US65.16

120GB Hard Drive
$US46.00

Pioneer DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
$US32.00

WLAN/Bluetooth Module
$US18.00

AC Power Adapter
$US14.25 (wow, that’s a price I underestimated)

1GB DDR3 RAM
$US10.00

Manufacturing Costs
$US10.94

Interestingly enough, I’ve always looked at the Mac Mini as one of Apple’s most expensive products in terms of the hardware you actually get for your money—while iSuppli’s report offers proof to the contrary. Of course, the Mac Mini’s profit margin is a bit different when you look at what Apple charges for their more premium model of the system—$800—when the only differences are 200GB more storage and an extra 1GB of RAM. In this case, the “Apple Tax” helps subsidize the pricing of the base Mac Mini.

As usual, these pricing figures only reflect the build and materials of a product, not development, testing, etc. [iSuppli]