NZXT announces Phantom chassis for gaming enthusiasts
If you’re a hardcore computer gamer, chances are you love building up your very own rig from the ground up. After all, it gives you full control of what you want to see underneath the hood, and you won’t have to limit yourself to the whims and fancies of the hardware manufacturer itself. It often involves a lot of money though, so it could turn out to be a rather expensive hobby if you are one who likes to keep up with the times. While the internal parts are extremely important, more and more people are coming to realize that the chassis of the machine itself is also of importance – after all, it decides just how much stuff you can cram in there elegantly, while making your living room or workspace look good simultaneously. NZXT knows this, making them proud to announce the Phantom, their most elegant and intelligent chassis design to date.
What you’ll get with the Phantom is nothing ordinary, where we’re talking about high performance cooling advantages that include 7 fan cooling options with dual 200mm, single 230/200mm, triple 120mm, and front 140mm fans. Apart from that, the Phantom also comes with dual radiator support, quad watercooling cutouts, and an integrated fan controller with up to five 20W channels – now that ought to keep things running nice and cool even when you push its performance to the max. It can also hold larger heat sinks just in case you love overclocking your rig, while boasting enough space for bigger sized graphics cards. E-ATX motherboards enthusiasts will also be pleased to note that the Phantom supports this component as well, and we haven’t touched on the fact that it can hold 7 hard drives with SDD support and up to five 5.25” bays yet.
Apart from that, additional advanced features include an LED on/off button to control case lighting, rubber PSU and case feet that will go a long way in helping reduce vibration, easily removable front and top panels, and top mounted USB, Audio/Mic, and E-SATA ports. Out later this September, you can choose from white, red and black color options, where they will retail for $139.99 apiece.
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Quirky Kōsoku could be the perfect dog leash
What you see here is the quirky Kōsoku, a specially designed dog leash that has the comfort of both furkid and owner in mind. After all, most dog leashes in the market today cater for just the owner without thinking too much about the dog’s comfort, but the Kōsoku is very different since it combines both plush and rigid materials, making it the ideal walking companion. Among the features include a fully retractable 6-foot long leash (not recommended by some dog trainers though, retractable leashes), a reflective 3M tape surface for extra visibility when you take Fido out for early morning or late night walks, a side pocket to hold doggy “waste” bags, and shock-absorbent neoprene and durable nylon canvas wrapped around a semi-rigid core for strength and flexibility. It is good enough for dogs that weigh up to 90 lbs. – anything heavier than that and you’re out of luck. You can place a pre-order now for $37.
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Snatch Land Rover is Cooler than Your Hummer
It’s hard to say what the gas mileage for this beast would be, but it’s far cooler than a Hummer at least as far as the concept pictures go. The previous version of the Snatch Land Rover (SLR) was not-so-lovingly nicknamed a “mobile coffin” by the British soldiers that …
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PS3 firmware 3.41 said to be causing hard drive upgrade problems
The recently released PS3 firmware 3.41 seemed to just be a minor update that added a new “You May Like” section to the PlayStation Store, but it looks like it’s been causing nothing but headaches for anyone trying to upgrade the hard drive in their console. As a 30-page strong thread on the official PlayStation forums reveals, folks upgrading their hard drive have been getting a “no applicable data” error after trying to install the update, which has left them with a non-working PS3 and, in some cases, a corrupted original drive. According to CVG, the issue may have something to do with a newly discovered feature of the 3.41 update that allows for more incremental patches, which might also explain why the problem only seems to be affecting PS3s where the firmware is stored in on the hard drive instead of the system’s memory. As for Sony, it hasn’t offered an official explanation just yet, but all indications are that it’s a bug and not an intentional blocking of hard drive upgrades — at least we hope it is. Head on past the break for a video of the problem.
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Choose Your Bullets Pen Stand
The pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword. For it is the pen that can expose the corrupt, win justice for the innocent, and even impeach the most powerful of men.
The Watergate scandal is a true testament to the might the pen yields. Two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and …
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Enso whips up two smartphones and three new slates, but we wouldn’t order any of ‘em
Oh, Enso — must you really give us a reason to hope? After dealing with what felt like a case of the vaporwares, and then being epically disappointed with the zenPad (which is now out of stock, curiously) that you finally shipped, we just can’t muster up the courage to look fondly upon the five new products that are gracing your webstore. That said, those that don’t mind risk taking and actually enjoy the thought of fighting for a refund have three new MIDs / slates to ponder along with a pair of Android-based smartphones to consider. Let’s break ‘em down real quick, shall we?
- zenPad 2 ($219; shipping now): Here you have a 5-inch, Android 1.5-based MID with an 800 x 480 resolution resistive touchscreen, a bundled stylus, inbuilt 3G, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, microSD slot (8GB included), 128MB of RAM, 256MB NAND Flash, a 624MHz Marvell PXA303 Xscale CPU, integrated accelerometer, onboard GPS, micro-USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and a battery good for 4.5 hours of use. We’re told that an Android 2.1 update is “imminent,” but we believe that about as much as we believe BP’s promise to “make it right.”
- zenPad 3 ($249; pre-order): This here tablet boasts the exact same specifications as the zenPad 2 (right down to the battery life and resolution), but it rocks a 7-inch design that’ll aid those who can’t squint hard enough to see fonts on the 5-inch sibling.
- zenPad 4 ($199; shipping now): We hate to state the obvious, but this is quite obviously an iPad KIRF — right down to the Home button. You’ll find a 10.2-inch resistive touchpanel with a 1,024 x 600 resolution (one that Enso swears up and down “has a fast response and works very well”), along with Android 2.1, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of storage, a microSD slot (8GB included), a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, built-in accelerometer and a 2,400mAh battery that’s good for 5 to 7 hours of life.
- zenPhone ($349; shipping now): So… it looks like a Nexus One KIRF, it’s called a zenPhone, yet it says it’s a MID. Oh, and it’s not this ZenPhone. Whatever the case, it’s got a 4.3-inch resistive touchscreen (800 x 480), 3G HSDPA radio, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, 256MB of NAND Flash, a microSD slot (8GB included), a 3.2 megapixel rear camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera, a 2,600mAh battery, onboard GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and — wait for it — Maemo 5 running the show. Yeah, seriously.
- zenDroid ($319; pre-order): In the market for a Droid KIRF, are you? You’ve come to the right place, with this one offering a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen (800 x 480), 3G HSDPA, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, an FM radio tuner, Android 2.1 (“upgradable to 2.2,” we’re told), a microSD slot (8GB bundled in), 512MB of NAND Flash, a 624MHz Marvell PXA935 processor, 5 megapixel rear camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera, a 1,500mAh battery, onboard GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and a micro-USB connector.
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Six Zone Heated Mattress Pad
Why not prepare for winter with the Six Zone Heated Mattress Pad from Hammacher? You might balk at the $249.99 price point since it might be a whole lot cheaper to just purchase an extremely thick blanket to keep yourself warm, but then again a blanket won’t be able to offer individual spots of different warmth on your mattress, does it? This heated mattress pad comes with half a dozen warming zones that can be adjusted independently to provide different levels of warmth under the head, torso, and leg regions for two sleepers. The heating elements themselves were specially woven into the mattress pad (with three under each sleeper), where individual zones come with 10 different temperature settings that enable one’s feet to remain toasty warm while your head rests on a slightly cooler surface. Just like most other things in the house today, this also comes with a wireless remote that lets you adjust the temperature settings. There is also a preheat function which allows the mattress pad to get warm before you jump into bed, and for safety reasons, it can turn itself off automatically after 10 hours. While the remote control requires a trio of AAA batteries to work, the mattress pad itself needs to feed off an AC outlet.
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Transformers Windows Media Player will Transform Your Music Experience
I have a confession to make, I never put a skin on my winamp player..or media player..or whatever I happen to be using to play my music at the time. Since it plays my music and I immediately forget about it, I suppose I never thought to take the time …
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