<![CDATA[Gizmodo: casemods]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: casemods]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/casemods http://gizmodo.com/tag/casemods <![CDATA[What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?]]> Finally, an NES cartridge casemod I can get behind without weeping uncontrollably. This one houses a complete library of NES games, uses the original buttons, and hides inside the Super Mario/Duck Hunt combo cartridge. But wait, there's more:

There's also an mp3 player, movie player and an FM radio receiver. The video out is also intact, meaning this little guy can be used to play on the big screen.

Games in action below:

To answer your question, yes, this mod is very similar to one we've featured before. This one is cleaner, boasts more features, and plays Game Boy games too, so it gets the nod today. Nice work.

Oh, and the answer to the headline question, by the way, is unicorns. They would exist. [Ben Heck Forums via technabob]

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<![CDATA[Russian Casemod Freak Builds a Miniature Living Room Inside His PC]]> Because the one sentence written about this miniature-living-room-inside-a-PC-case was composed in Russian, i'll just say this—whoever created it is awesome, but they might also be a serial killer.

There's a painstaking amount of detail inside the scene, including intricate housewares such as a vase, flowers, the newspaper, and a gumball machine (?!). Anyone with this much time on their hands must also spend hours thinking of the perfect way to get away with murder.

But I do love how the circuit board nearly blends in as wallpaper if you don't pay close attention. I'd like to see this turn into a trend...I think. [Modding.ru via Technabob]

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<![CDATA[Gallery: Amazing Stargate Pyramid Case Mod]]>




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<![CDATA[Motorized Stargate Pyramid Case Mod Makes My Sci-Fi Senses Giddy]]> This amazing case was built from scratch, and would surely make MacGyver—I mean Colonel Jack O'Neill—proud. Modeled after Stargate's Goa'uld Ha'tak starship, the HTPC has a 5-inch PSOne screen, and its lights and motorized door are remote-controlled.

It's one of the best case jobs I've seen in a long time. The system is built on a Mini-ITX Commell LV-677 mobo, and runs an Intel T7200 Core 2 Duo coupled with 2GB DDR memory. Graphics are served up by a GeForce 9400GT, and a 160GB hard disk stores the entertainment.

You can check out some of the build process in the video or higher-quality photos below. Modder Gup, I salute you. [TechPowerup via Geeky Gadgets]

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<![CDATA[XCM Black Light Cases Makeover Your Xbox 360 In Minutes]]> I hate to say it, but a stock Xbox 360 isn't the prettiest gadget in home entertainment. Caking on makeup just masks the problem—what she really needs is a complete makeover. That's where XCM Black Light cases come in.

The case itself is black and it includes a pre-cut window. LEDs inside can be set to stay put on one of seven different colors or cycle through the full spectrum. There is also a matching AirTube wind tunnel which serves as a light-up replacement for the fan shroud. Everything you need to swap cases is included, so it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes or so to get the job done. [Extreme Mods and XCM via Technabob]

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<![CDATA[Edelweiss PC is Absolutely Stunning]]> Holy crap, is this an awesome looking computer. The Edelweiss, created by Pius Giger in Switzerland, is one of the coolest custom rigs I've ever seen.

I don't have any details as to the components in this thing, but really, who cares? This is more of a piece of art than anything you'd sully by playing Solitaire on. [MDPC via TechEBlog]

















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<![CDATA[Hellboy Xbox 360 Mod Is Very, Very Red]]> Indeed, "Red" would undoubtedly approve of this 360 mod by Frank Gonzales. Designed to look like the Right Hand of Doom, this crusty case looks like it could deliver a serious beatdown.

As a fan of the comics and the movies, I definitely dig Gonzales' work. Speaking of that, his Gears of War mod wasn't half bad either. [Joystiq via Kotaku]

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<![CDATA[PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson's Book About Video Game Violence]]> For gamers well-versed in the antics of former attorney Jack Thompson, this PS2 casemod found over at Kotaku has to be all sorts of Schadenfreude. [Kotaku]

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<![CDATA[A Clockwork Orange Gets Overclocked]]> As you can see, modder David Penfold completely went balls out with the orange paint to create his PC homage to the movie A Clockwork Orange.

Inside this annihilation orange box beats an Asus Rampage II Extreme motherboard, an Intel Core i7-940 chip, 6GB of 1,600MHz Corsair DDR3 memory, three GeForce GTX 280s and three Intel X25-M 80GB SSD drives in a RAID0 setup. With a name like "Overclocked Orange", you can expect that Penfold pushed the hardware to the max as well—like the Core i7 running at 4.0 GHz.

Suddenly I have the urge to add A Clockwork Orange to my Netflix queue and toss my pathetically weak computers out the window. [Bit-tech via Technabob via Geeky Gadgets]

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<![CDATA[Handmade Vertex Pyramid Cases Entomb Your PC]]> Pyramid-shaped PC cases are nothing new, but these handmade Vertex-cases are a little snazzier than most—and will ensure that your PC successfully completes the transition to the afterlife.

Specifications
* Monocoque chassis laser-cut from 1.6 mm Aluminum
* Powercoated in 1 of 3 colors
* Flex ATX Power Supply included : Sparkle Power SPI270LE with 80 Plus certification
* Cross-Flow Cooling system featuring a push-pull design with one fan on the base and one at the rear of the enclosure. Uses Scythe Kama-Flex 80 mm fans.
* 1 hard drive suspension system that accomodates a single 3.5" or 2.5" hard drive.
* 1 Slim DVD bay on the base that will handle laptop DVD drives. A Slim-SATA adapter cable is included.
* Side-mounted ports for easy multimedia connections
o 2 X USB 2.0
o 1 X IEEE 1394 (Firewire)
o Audio In and Out
* Removable panels. With varying degrees of effort, all panels can be removed using a supplied hex key tool
* 3 connected LEDs reflect hard drive activity and contribute to the aesthetic
* 1 Bulgin vandal-style LED switch for Power On and aesthetics
* Motherboard : Fit Micro-ATX motherboards. Smaller motherboards such as ITX will likely fit but have not been tested.
* Dimensions :
o Sides attached at a 52 degree angle to the base panel
o 10.24" (H) x 16 " (W) x 16" (D)
o 26 cm (H) x 40.6 cm (W) x 40.6 cm (D)

Kinda cool for a small computer—but if you are willing to spend $400 on one you had better hurry. They are being sold through Etsy, so you know stock is limited. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets]

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<![CDATA[Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E PC Case Mod]]> Ho-lee crap. This is one serious case mod. The incredibly precise and detailed project took one dedicated Russian modder 18 days to complete, which is an accomplishment by itself. Jaw = dropped.

The whole process has been thoroughly documented, and each piece of the mod was cut out with the utmost care. Check it out, this is amazing work. [English Russia]

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<![CDATA["Sting" Scorpion Casemod is Glowing With Digital Venom]]> I don't know how well this "Sting" casemod works as an actual PC (if it works at all), but it sure does look purdy—and menacing.

If you are so inclined, details on how to build something like this yourself are available in the following links. [Gathering and TBCS]

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<![CDATA[In Space, No Alien PS3 Case Mod Can Hear You Scream]]> It's not that I don't enjoy an Alien PS3 as much as the next guy. It's just that I would have gone with the famed stomach scene instead.

One tattoo artist/case modder molded this Alien PS3 out of super heated epoxy putty—a material that required a few sacrificial burns before becoming immortalized as a 1979 horror flick creature.

Apparently the material cools to become as hard as metal, so it's impossible to remove it from the PS3's case. Can you imagine the face on some Sony tech who opens a box to find this system for repair? Well I can. And it's hilarious. [Cyberpunk Review via technabob]

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<![CDATA[Mac Mini Inside an Apple Disk II Case]]> Thirty years ago, it would have been obscene to think a PC could fit into a case the size of the Apple II's floppy drive. Now Charles Mangin's Mac Mini lives in one.

I was just reading about the development of the Disk II. Randy Wigginton and Woz worked on it for a few weeks, only finishing up the control software (which negated the need for fancy hardware controllers by using software to read and write the sectors in the right spot) hours before presenting it at CES in 1978. They stayed up all night after setting up the booth to get it done. When they finished, they tried to made a back up copy. And they accidentally overwrote the data disk with the blank. Less than a few hours before the show floor opened, they rewrote the entire control system.

[Flickr via Macrumors via Technobob, Apple2history.org]

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<![CDATA['Steampunk Frankenstein' PC Is Awesome Enough To Excuse Being Steampunk In The First Place]]> I've had some harsh words for lesser Steampunk mods, and with good reason—it's getting tired, and most examples are massively boring. Not boring: the "Frankenstein Steampunk", an absurdly thorough PC mod built by Dana Mattocks.

The first thing you notice about this mod is its size—it's 8 feet tall, and weighs over 400 pounds. The project apparently took a year to complete, and it shows. Not opportunity for modification is pass up, with everything from the power button (a discreet brass valve) to the air intake (an old church floor vent) gets a neo-Victorian overhaul. While it looks like a wooden mainframe, its guts are pure high-end gaming. The dual Nvidia 8800 GTX system is watercooled throughout, keeping noise to a minimum. This is Steampunk done right—as actual art, not as a fashion statement. Check out gallery below for a few more pics, but definitely click through to Dana's full Flickr set to see the Frankenstein in all its glorious detail. [Dana Mattocks]

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<![CDATA[CinematographHD: Two Monitors In One Incredible Case Mod]]> When a video editor became depressed looking at his laptop, he did the only logical thing. He went to the garage, whipped out the welding torch and cooked himself up a portable system that could store a five-drive RAID0 array and two 22-inch monitors. Video is captured via unspecified HDMI-wielding video card and project output occurs through a Blu-ray burner. We don't know what the whole honking system weighs in at, but we do know that this 10-minute spark montage build video puts Rocky !, II, III and IV to shame:


I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go do some push ups. [Modders Inc]

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<![CDATA[Special Edition DC Xbox 360s Are Hot In the Non-RROD Sense]]> Check out these four horsemen of the Xbox 360 apocalypse from ComicCon: one Watchmen, one DC Comics, one Gears of War, and one Terminator Salvation, all up for grabs as part of a contest from Warner Bros. These aren't just new cases, either, they're full-fledged Xbox 360 consoles. There's only limited info to go on right now concerning these custom consoles, so we have no idea whether or not the superheros and super powers splayed across the fronts of these Xbox 360s will be enough to combat the RROD that surely awaits each of them in the future. [Film School Rejects]

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<![CDATA[Cheese Wheel PC, Because...We Actually Don't Know]]> We're not sure what drives one to put a PC in a cheese wheel, but we're glad that such outlets exist for those who are so inclined. For what would man have done, say, 100 years ago if he wanted to run TurboTax from a pile of aging dairy product? He would have lived a sad life and died alone, his hands reeking of yogurt. [forum.modding via technabob]

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<![CDATA[If You Build a PC Case Out of Duct Tape, Geeks Will Come]]> We all know duct tape has a million uses—but did you know that the actual figure is a million and one? It's true—a bunch of geeks confirmed it when they succeeded in building a PC case entirely out of the sticky stuff. You laugh because it's stupid, but you have to be impressed with the amount of thought these guys put into the project. They even managed to keep all of the components and the structure itself secure using rolled up duct tape support beams. If you would like to do the same for some reason, complete instructions are available on the project site. UPDATE: Video added.


[Icrontic]

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<![CDATA[XCM Xbox 360 Casemod Glows Whether Console is Overheating or Not]]> Irresistible Xbox 360 red ring of death heatsink jokes aside, this glow-in-the-dark replacement shell from XCM is the bee's knees for gamers who like to do it in the dark. Even with the lights on the case is still pretty cool, as it sports a semi-translucent look, allowing onlookers to marvel at the melting electronics housed within.

496_xbox_360_glow_off.jpg[Technabob]

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