If you’ve ever been tempted by a touchscreen kitchen PC, but can’t afford the high prices most off-the-shelf units command, then sidekick-x’s nifty Eee PC hack may fit the bill. He took a normal ASUS netbook, cracked it open, fitted a touchscreen layer and then integrated it neatly into a kitchen cupboard.
Video demo after the cut
The glowing logo, the sleek curves – could it be anything other than a new Apple notebook? Well yes, actually, it could: the steady-handsmanship of a German modder called Florian Gotz, it’s really a Medion Akoya Mini E1210 (a rebadged MSI Wind ) with an Apple logo cut out with a Dremel.
It takes more than just a simple press release to get a new game noticed these days, which is why THQ have gone a few steps further to publicize their upcoming Dawn of War II. They’ve taken a real British army FV432 tank into the workshop and are setting about modifying it into a life-size Rhino Space Marine transport vehicle from the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Yesterday we saw an example of a very well done mod. It was nice and clean and of course got extra points for being a classic. Well today we have what some might call an example of a mod gone wrong.
One thing about gamers is that we can’t resist getting a little sentimental when it comes to the classics. Well one modder managed to create a very nicely done Super Nintendo handheld and then once he made the first he made a second in black.
Back in April Ben Heck modded a PS3 controller to fit inside of an Xbox 360 one. Well now he’s decided to flip that and cram an Xbox 360 controller inside of a PS3 one.
I have always had just a bit of animosity towards Pikachu, he’s just way too perky. Anything that is that excited all of the time needs squished immediately, preferably under an ACME sized mallet. Not turned into a MIDI-controlled circuit-bent musical instrument.
Working on the principle that there can never be too many touchscreen Eee variants, jkkmobile has a new tutorial for adding such a panel to the ASUS Eee PC 901. The 8.9-inch touchscreen panel itself costs around $70 on eBay (plus shipping); then it’s just a case of opening up the 901, locating power and USB connections, and carefully squeezing everything in.
Check out the demo video of the touchscreen Eee 901 after the cut
Further close-up examination of ASUS’ latest new facet to the Eee PC range, the hard-drive toting Eee PC 900 30G, suggests the notebook might be more interesting than first believed. While the prospect of an Eee 900 with the SSD storage swapped out for a more mundane (though slightly larger) 30GB HDD doesn’t seem too impressive, Mobile01’s pictures of the unit’s internal setup reveal that the way ASUS has fitted the drive itself may be the real development.
I’m all for cool console mods, especially when it’s something old-school like an NES. However, sometimes I see one that makes me stop and wonder why on earth someone would make such a creation. Take, for example, this light gun which has an entire NES stuffed into it.
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