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Games
Aftermarket Xbox 360 Case Reduces Noise, Heat and Design
9:20AM Sean Fallon | If the Xbox 360 is simply too loud, hot and small for your taste, the Lian-Li PC-XB01 case mod can help. The case can silence the disc drive with sound-proofing foam and keep things cool with improved airflow, a single 120mm fan or optional water cooling system. Plus, it is four times the size of the 360–so you know it will take up that extra space you have been meaning to fill. A price point has not been made available, but we do know that you can get your hands on this hulking beast sometime this August. [Lian-Li via Xbox Scene via Hack a Day via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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Water-Cooled Grill Supposedly Keeps Meat From Charring
2:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | I’ve always thought that a good char on a burger made it exponentially more delicious, but in case you’re worried about carcinogens, Wellbas’ water-cooled barbecue grill promises that your slab of meat will come out tender, juicy and completely char-free. Water is pumped from a reservoir through small pipes on the actual grill to keep it cool even as you cook. More »
Hardware
IBM Developing Water-cooled, ‘3D’ Semiconductors
9:46AM Adrian Covert | Straight out of IBM’s Zurich R&D labs are these concepts for semiconductor chips that are stacked on top of eachother and allow enough space in between for water cooling. Developed jointly with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, the ‘3D’ stacking of these chips not only uses less space and allows for greater speed, but the water cooling technique could potentially take the generated heat and reuse it for other purposes. IBM says the water cooling structure is as thin as 50 microns and equal in complexity to the system of nerves and blood vessels in the human brain. Crazy stuff.[IBM via TG Daily via Engadget] More »
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