Here are some videos of the new crazy tourist ride at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto. No matter how strong that harness is, I know I will be freaking out. And loving it. More »
Unless you build your own PC (or get one made from your local PC store), or you want a high-end gaming machine, it’s pretty uncommon to find PC towers on the market. But online retailer Millennius has bucked that trend, launch five new tower PCs, all of them running Ubuntu. More »
You’ve all seen those monstrously large radio towers that beam out your favourite radio or television program. It’s worth remembering that if something goes wrong, some poor sap has to climb to the top of that tower to fix it. And occasionally, that poor sap will wear a helmet-mounted camera and create a YouTube video of the experience of climbing up a 538m tower. More »
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Do you ever wonder just how paralysingly scary it is at the top of a 500m broadcast tower? Where you’re closer to the clouds than you are to the ground? Let this guy do the climbing. More »
It looks like a vista from some distant sci-fi planet, but this is actually a forest near the River Mur, where Austria borders Slovenia. And the steel and aluminium helix stretching above the treetops isn’t any less arresting up close: More »
NZXT’s new Hades case looks like a primitive stone carving, worshipped by Pacific Islanders sometime in the last millennia. It gazes upon you, solemn and silent, imposing and intimidating, powerful and peaceful. More »
I stopped by BFG yesterday, makers of the Phobos—a mega performance/home theatre PC aimed at the rich and the lazy. Their touchscreen-wielding Phobos is an understated best of a PC, but I’m more interested in what they’re planning next. More »
