Archive for April, 2008

Iron Man case mod shows lots of dedication, is still ugly

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: we can’t deny that the Iron Man Mark I case mod took some serious work (and skill). That being the case, it’d take a pretty hardcore fan of the character (or the new flick, we guess) to love this one with reckless abandon. […]

Video: The Croiman Psycho iPhone makes other modders weep with joy, envy

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

See it? No, not the reflective surface or the bastardization of the Intel Inside logo on the back… the other modification to this stock iPhone. Right, that Apple logo is burning white a la your off-the-shelf MacBook. Amazingly, the trick is accomplished without any appreciable increase to the iPhone’s […]

Video: Dell’s XPS M1530 and M1330 now pink like flowers and pigs

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops

Ugh, it’s springtime again. So in addition to the pools of human secretions warming into an olfactory howdy-do on city sidewalks, we get these, the pink laptops. The pink XPS M1530 and M1330 now official. Check the late-nite Dell Infomercial after the break; Ron Popeil Productions must be so proud.
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Video: OQO hacked to run Leopard, now world’s smallest Mac

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds

While greeted with heaps of initial skepticism, forum jockeys over at OQO Talk now seem convinced that a junior member by the name of TRF has successfully hacked the OQO to run OS X Leopard. Adding a video filmed by Mr. Blurry Cam didn’t hurt the cause. TRF’s OQO is […]

“Brain pacemaker” could treat depression, OCD

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Sending electrical shocks into the brain via a “brain pacemaker” has already led to dramatic breakthroughs like the revival of a man trapped in a vegetative state for six years, but new research may mean that the technique is soon a common treatment for disorders like depression and OCD. Researchers from the […]