PC cases often look pretty dull out of the box, leaving most of the aesthetic appeal to intrepid modders who custom-build their own designs. Not so with Thermaltake’s Level 10 case. Teaming up with BMW’s Designworks USA consulting firm, Thermaltake — which is celebrating its 10th a...

It appears that Corsair is getting ino the PC case game with this yet-unnamed monstrosity. It’s got cut-outs for water cooling and four hot-swap SATA trays for a variety of hard drive configurations, plus three 120mm fan ports on top to keep the heat rising right out of there. Best of all, thi...

If you’re in the camp that believes video games — particularly their controllers — have become too complicated, maybe this will help. Justin at Solomods is selling his personal Xbox 360 arcade cabinet, which consists of an old Simpsons game cabinet with the console parts stuffed in...

We’re now one month into the new year.  When it comes to computing, this year’s CES was largely uneventful and uninspiring.  We feel that, in spite of its slow start, the coming year can be a big year for the evolution of the personal computer.  In the last few months, subtle changes ...

It’s sad when all the cheeriness of Christmas recedes and all you get for the next few months is cold weather. To cheer you up, here are few shots of the “Ginger Bread PC.” A case modder at Envador used hardboard for the walls and weather-stripping caulk for the icing. The hard dri...

This crafty UK hacker decided to put his old Gamecube to good use and cram a PC into it. It took him over a year to put it all together. It’s not exactly a powerhouse of a machine, but it is one of the cleanest casemods using a Gamecube I have ever seen. PicoCube is based on the tiny Pico-ITX ...

Filed under: Desktops Well, we suppose the first two Orange Box mods we saw were Portal-related, but a love for Half-Life 2 is really implied in anything Valve-related, and this here Team Fortress 2 case mod feels like the end to a beautiful, Orange story -- or perhaps the beginning of another. We'l...

Filed under: misc hacks Finding the right enclosure to house your latest project can be tricky, so Sparkfun wrote up some handy tips on the how to pick the right one. The most important tip is to have your components measured before acquiring a case; even being a few milimeters too small can put you...

Filed under: Mods, Macbook Pro Here's the situation. You're sitting with a friend when she gives you some great information that you want to write down. Or, you want to share something with her, but your Mac is not running, and it seems like a hassle to wait for it to boot just to complete that simp...

Alligator skin: Nothing like taking one of nature's top carnivores, a beast with no natural predators (except some jackasses on a fanboat), and turning it into something trivial. Once I ate alligator meat on a foccacia. A gator might dismember you in two bites and I imagine that hurts, but winding u...