Shuttle’s D10 case has been receiving all manner of compliments recently, with many people very able to envisage a compact HTPC with integrated 7-inch 800 x 600 touchscreen fitting nicely into their lives. Aside from Akihabara came across the D10 just prior to its Japanese launch, and you can see their demo video after the cut.
Check out the demo video of the Shuttle D10 after the cut
If you’ve got to have a six-PC render farm for your business, you might as well make it look good. Designer Fredrik Perman moved offices in North Carolina, and decided to put his six Intel dual-core PCs up on the wall of the lobby in a custom plexiglass case. Lighting is from LED fans and ten 10-inch cold-cathode tubes hidden behind the aluminium frame.
More pictures of the wall-mounted render-farm after the cut
The Antec Skeleton case almost seems to be a contradiction in terms, as for your money you don’t actually get much casing. What you do get is a 250mm fan mounted on top of an arched framework, with a slide-out motherboard tray and, underneath, space for your PSU and drives. Antec are saying it provides “unprecedented airflow”, which I suppose is accurate unless up until now you’ve left your PC components lying around on a window-ledge.
The ASUS VENTO TA-M1 was introduced and this PC case can stand up to some serious heat. A front-mounted fan can be used as well as a rear and two side fans that measure up to 4.7 inches in diameter.
It’s a difficult time to be a PC case manufacturer. As more mainstream users choose notebooks over desktops, and the choice of high-powered gaming laptops gets broader and cheaper, there are fewer customers to go around. In the end, all you can do is innovate or price your product hard: with their new Conquerer WSL, Rosewill have concentrated most on the latter, with a few nods to the former.
Another day, another case for the so-far unofficial iPod nano 4G. Today it’s a pair of silicon skins from manufacturer Jivo, the box-copy for which proclaims them specially crafted for Apple’s next-gen nano, and from what we can see of the form-factor a decent match for the general consensus around what the upcoming PMP will look like.
With the ink on an extended warranty to cover Red Ring of Death incidents only just dry, it might seem crazy to take apart your XBox 360 – voiding the guarantee in the process – and decant the contents into a new casing. That’s what Lian Li are suggesting, however, with their XB01 Cooling Chassis; bit-tech have just had theirs in the mail, and set about getting their donor 360 naked to post some first impressions.
Cases purported to be for the rumored fourth-generation iPod nano and second-generation iPod touch have appeared on Alibaba (here, here and here). Made from silicon, and seemingly tallying with the leaked image we’ve seen recently, the design for the nano suggests Apple would be going back to its earlier, long & thin form-factor.
NZXT have taken the wraps off of their latest E-ATX PC case, which pretty much sets its stall out by its name: Whisper. Claiming it “sets a new standard for silent computing performance”, NZXT have outfitted the Whisper with nine HDD bays and a variety of padding and rubberized mounts to reduce escaping noise.
If you feel like rocking out to some tunes while going for your daily swim, now you can with the H2OAudio Amphibx Waterproof Armband. It’s large enough for many different types of MP3 players, including the iPod and iPhone, and the arm strap keeps this case from floating away.
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