The last mouse I loved was the Apple Pro Mouse that I got at Steve Jobs’ MacWorld NYC 2000 keynote. Black, encased in clear plastic, it glowed like the Terminator. The new Thermaltake Level 10 M Mouse is the Terminator.
Desktops are dead! Well, not quite, but the beige boxes so many of us grew up with are, and have long been, on the wane. The next, possibly redemptive step for the desktop PC? Decoration. And why the hell not?
I don’t know how Level 10 works, but apparently this PC case—designed by BMW DesignworksUSA for Thermaltake—is real. It looks like the son of a Terminator and a Cray supercomputer conceived in Miami.
Onwards and upwards in the overclockers’ heatsink game: The crazed coolant doctors at Thermaltake are now shipping what they’re claiming is the first case to feature a DC-inverter micro refrigeration system onboard, which goes beyond conventional liquid-cooled setups by using the same type of compressor/condenser/coolant system found in a refrigerator or air conditioner into your PC case.
Current gadget design tends to favour minimalism… but that’s simply not true for this Thermaltake V1 cooler. Ohoho no. The Thermaltake designer who came up with this must’ve been an artist in a former career. Just look at it: so detailed, organically-shaped and glittery it’s an artwork. And one you’d surely have to show off if you chose to mount it to your CPU. It’s got a 12v fan, operates between 1,300 and 2,000 and is around 12.7cm tall and 10.1cm wide and will cost you around US$60. [BBG via DVice]
If you are into building your own computers, you know how expensive it is to keep up with the latest hardware requirements. That having been said, if you are planning on building a quad-core rig sometime in the near future, you can now step up to 1500W of power (1600W peak) thanks to the latest model in the ThermalTake Toughpower series. No pricing details have been made available, but it is safe to assume that this one will set you back a few bucks — and that’s not even considering the smoking crater left in your wallet after the monthly power bill arrives. [ThermalTake via Ubergizmo]
