So iBuyPower is offering the LAN Warrior, which is either a LAN-party-ready computer or just a mega tower PC with a piddly nylon strap attached, depending on your personal level of enthusiasm.

Available starting at $1000, configurations include various Core i7 processors, a 1000W power supply, Asus Rampage II Gene X58 μATX motherboard, up to 24GB of RAM, and your choice of dual NVIDIA or ATI graphics cards.

We envision setting it down next to our chair at the next Apple keynote alongside about 200 feet of bright orange extension cord, but that's just us.[iBuyPower]

Wowzers. I would like to have an entire wall in my house made up of Ledube bricks. The company behind it is Japanese LED giant Sankoflex, who will hire out the blocks to you for just under $5,000 per day, with an additional $2,400 for programming costs. The bricks, which can display 2.1 million colors on them, are for interior use only and have a network interface.

Uploading what you want on the bricks is easy—create your design on a PC using special software, then load it onto the system using an SD card. Admit it, the effect is pretty awe-inspiring. [Kilian-Nakamura]

According to at least one analyst, the LAN may die an early death thanks to what he is calling "de-perimeterization." As firms move more towards wireless, the day may soon come where each computer has its own internet connection "with appropriate security technology"—skipping the LAN completely. Performance and reliability hurdles must be overcome, but it is entirely plausible that one day, average computers will have a wireless gigabit connection directly to the internet. Eventually, the LAN will give way to an all-encompassing WAN. Whether that will happen—much less in as little as 10 years is anyone's guess. [ComputerWorld via Slashdot]

It provides ample space for keyboard and mouse, plus MP3 player, headphones, headset, cell phone, energy drink, airline-sized bag of pretzels and of course Dust-Off brand anti-dust spray (they're not stupid).

Best quote from the press release:

Until now, gamers have had no real dedicated solution for taking their most trusted gear with them when heading off to a LAN event or competition. Standard backpacks are simply not long enough to hold a keyboard and other interesting methods of transport, including hauling along the keyboard in its original box, are just not cool and can easily tarnish a gamer's image.

The T-35 would be able to sort through a crumbled building far faster than human workers with its precision arms and hands capable of a fearsome 220-pound grip. Also, it's wireless LAN capable and is able to broadcast the video taken from cameras located atop the vehicle as well as on its arms, and has a plow at its front to move through debris. It's a bit of a hog though, as its water-cooled, 3-cylinder diesel engine can only keep the machine running for six hours. [Impress]

Exactly what Internet content you can bring into this unit depends on which carrier supplies the phone to you; it doesn't look like you'll be able to just pick up one of these phones on your own and access the Internet with it. On-screen information that you could be able to access (for a price, no doubt) would be news, e-mail, stock market data, weather forecasts, traffic reports and sports results.

We'd like it a lot better if you could just plug the thing into your router without any help from bloodsucking service providers.

LAN Cordless DUALphone offers the best of both worlds [ bergizmo]

Specs and pricing on Skype phones [Amazon]