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ecofan bamboo cooling stands: cool your laptop with wood

ecofan_pro_laptop_stand

Does your laptop get hotter than Hades and overheat all the time? I know there are plenty of laptop cooling solutions out there, but how many of them actually look decent?

Macally’s wooden ECOFAN and ECOFANPRO stands keep your laptop nice and cool, and look good doing it . Each stand has a built-in USB…

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November 4th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design technology

xbox aquarium casemod: swimming with the fishes

xbox_fish_tank_mod

So you’ve got an old Xbox lying around the house and you don’t know what to do with it? Why not do like this guy did and float it in your fish tank?

Yep, thanks to the non-conductive cooling properties of mineral oil, this submerged Xbox system still works as well as it did the…

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October 23rd, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods strange + wonderful technology video games

coolit pc casemod gives me the chills

coolit_ice_pc_casemod

I’m pretty sure that this custom-built PC won’t ever overheat. That’s not just because it looks like a frosty block of snow and ice. It’s actually decked out with a completely over-the-top cooling system that keeps the interior of the computer at arctic temperatures.

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October 9th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design hacks + mods technology

lego-like fridge concept allows thieves to steal your fridge one stack at a time

electrolux_flatshare_fridge

Designed by Stefan Buchberger, a student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Flatshare fridge concept gives you your own fridge space, perfect for roommates. And wives with messy husbands. Since the modules are stackable, you can just pile them in one spot like a normal fridge. And when you finally divorce your…

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July 26th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design future tech gadgets strange + wonderful technology

big ass fans: ’nuff said

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No, I’m not going to talk about sizable fans for your butt. Although I’d like to see what an ass fan would look like, what I’ll be sharing with you today are fans that are just plain huge. Just big ass fans, called Big Ass Fans, from the company Big Ass Fans.

While your run…

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May 27th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

giant computer fans: not cool (unless your name is macgyver)

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Cooling and proper ventilation is an important aspect of building computers, especially for gamers or hobbyists who want to get the most out of their machines by overclocking processors and…doing other stuff that I don’t really understand. There are tons of sophisticated cooling solutions for computers, but what if you don’t have the money to…

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April 22nd, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing hacks + mods strange + wonderful

just cooler notebook coolers with built-in speakers: not just cool

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I’m sure some of you have seen Brando’s quirky notebook cooling pads, the ones that have HDD slots that leave the attached drive’s butt hanging in the air. Just Cooler’s cooling pads aren’t as weird, but they have their own gimmick: their latest models have built-in speakers. One of them’s a 2.1 system, although I…

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January 14th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio computing gadgets

hundreds of box fans as interactive art

Flow 5.0 by Daan Roosegaarde

This unusual art installation took hundreds and hundreds of individual cooling fans, and tied them together with sensors that detect the movements of passersby to produce an amazing visual and sensory experience.

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde worked with a team of technical wizards to create this mammoth interactive work entitled Flow 5.0. The display dynamically…

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December 14th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design interactive

dumbest person ever

PS3 Stupid Human Tricks

I’m really hoping this forum post over on Blu-ray.com is fake…

According to the poster of the thread, his friend was wondering why his shiny new Playstation 3 had stopped working, when he discovered the unthinkable. His buddy decided to duct tape over the vents in order to keep dust OUT of the console. Yeah,…

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July 3rd, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun video video games

the real puffy shirt

USB Air Conditioned Shirt

Here’s a fun one that must have slipped past my radar screen when it hit the circuit last year. This USB-powered clothing is designed to keep you cool on those warm Summer days.

As long as you don’t mind looking like a complete fool, the air conditioned shirt plugs into your computer and blows air…

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July 2nd, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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cool your hot console with a radiator

Console Heat Radiator

For certain current-gen consoles (espectially those that start with an “X” and end with a “360″), overheating has been a recurring problem for many of us. I’ve seen all sorts of cooling fans that claim to help with the problem, and sometimes they do. That said, there doesn’t appear to be a perfect solution, other…

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June 27th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

xbox 360 fan adds more outputs than you’ll ever need

Xbox 360 Fan Attachment w/ Ports

This new fan attachment for the back of the Xbox 360 gives you much more than just supplemental cooling. It actually adds a variety of direct-access connectors to the back of the console, eliminating the need for special adapter cables.

Along with two cooling fans, the add-on gives you easy access to VGA, Component, Composite…

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June 23rd, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

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