The Chocolate Computer – Christmas Elf edition:

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The Suunto X9i will be available for industry preview August 11-14 at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, booth 1927.(retails for $499).

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The source (forum) for this Milk Jug PC Case Mods is in Russian, so I don’t know the detail about this. I’ve tried to find any information about this case mods on Google, and got nothing. Instead, I got this funny “Moo Cow Moo” PC Case mods here :d

It forces the mouse to be about 5 inches farther away from where I’m typing than it needs to be, which is a lot of unnecessary arm movement over the years.

Finally, he made a bright decision: chop the numeric keypad off from the keyboard!

His victim was the Microsoft Natural Keyboard. At his first attempt, he ended up making 1/3 of the keys didn’t work, because he accidently cut off several wires and components on the keyboard. He succeeded on the second attempt.

If you hate the numeric keypad a lot like he did, you can try to do the same thing. He gives a step-by-step instructions on his website, along with several screenshots. But don’t forget to keep a spare keyboard as a backup, incase you did something wrong :p

The creator, Richard Sherman, recently win NewEgg (newegg.com) monthly mods content with this Bronco mods. For the monitor screen, he used a 12.1” LCD screen, which he got from EBay for $100. For the inside, he used an old motherboard, CDROM, hard disk drive and power supply. The wheel, using RC truck tires, were bought from eBay for $35. And in the center of the Ford Bronco’s front signal turn, he added 2 USB plugins so he can plug his USB Drive easily.

For the music, he used an 1/8th inch mini stereo plug to 2 RCA plugs for hooking up to any house stereo and an FM modulator to send the audio to any radio within 1000 feet. For better perfomance, he later upgraded most of the inside part of the case. All of them, he said, were bought from NewEgg.

Richard said that he spent 14 months total to build this wonderful case mods. Now he has 2 Bronco PC Case Mods in his house, both connected to broadband internet access via router.

Now I have 2 Bronco’s that I really love and a great gaming machine in the house. I have learned a lot about what it takes to build something like this from scratch, I had never done any work with modeling clay, very little with fiberglass and no experience in computer design, but I like what I ended up with.

Now I have an eye catching PC that works great as a mobile juke box. With the integrated Keyboard, LCD screen, and wireless mouse I can go to any party to surf the net or play some tunes. I don’t need to add any speakers because with the use of the FM modulator I can just hook up to any one’s stereo system and be jamming in 2 minutes…

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By branding laptop computers, you can increase your company or organization’s brand recognition. This would also prevent thief from taking your laptop, thus keep your valuable information. You can also use it as a marketing tool for your company, especially at an exhibition or special event.

There’s not much information on their website about their service. But you can see several sample of their works here.

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Katsuya Matsumura is the Japanese man who created this case mods by himself. Being an anime geek, he used to create his own anime figure. Not enough with that, he started the idea of having an anime doll as his PC case. Not the small one, but with the real women-shaped body. His first woman-shaped life-sized PC case mods, on April 2003, is Ellen (see screenshot below).

His next ‘daughters’ are Maya (image on the first part of this post) and later followed by Kana (screenshot below).

Now Katsuya accepts order for creating any shape of PC case mods, not just the human-like above. The price is vary, depend on the size an difficulty, but as a comparison, the small head-mode anime on the left – Tarutaru from Final Fantasy XI – cost around $1000 – $3000. For the maximum scale, 1:1 lifesize human model, might cost up to $6000.

If that’s too expensive for you, Katsuya is kind enough to give his detail tutorial for making your own human case-mods. You can read the tutorial here.

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Each of the USB Wireless Security Lock kit is composed of a USB receiver dongle connected to the computer, and a battery-powered access transmitter. If the access transmitter lost, the computer can be unlocked by a 5-level password protected system.

The USB Wireless Security Lock is much better than the conventional security dongle and password-protected screensavers, because it requires zero user interaction to initiate and release security protection. This completely eliminates common user errors, such as unauthorized users accessing the computer before security timer expires on the screensaver, or user forgets to remove security key/card from the system before leaving the station.

List of USB Wireless Security Lock features:

• Automatically locks PC when the user is physically away from the computer
• PC resumes automatically when user is within range (2 meter range)
• Grant access to authorized user within 2 meters of the protected computer
• Requires zero user interaction to initiate/release security protection, eliminating user error
• Password override can unlock PC if transmitter is lost
• Reliable Radio Frequency wireless technology
• USB interface, compatible with USB 1.0/1.1/2.0
• Easy to install and use
• Transmitter uses 3V/CR2032 battery (included)
• Operating frequency: 315 MHz
• Includes: PC Lock transmitter, PC Lock USB receiver, battery, software CD, 2″ leash
• Software works with Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP
• Note: not designed for dual screen systems

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Another cool mods you have to see:

• The “800Mhz Teadybear” – computer inside the Teddy Bear
• The Dreamcast PC – computer inside the Dreamcast body
• The “Pomgolian Web Server” – computer inside the guitar
• The “ITX-Helmet” – computer inside the helmet

Recommended reading about PC-mods:

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