Usually I think extravagantly designed computer cases all look like they are targeted at 14-year old FPS gamers – all cliché sci-fi-ish shapes with gaudy neon colored bling-bling. Tasteless, in short.
The people at Lian Li have made good cases for a long time, with clean but not escpecially spectacular designs. Then they let there designers create a special design for their 20th anniversary: the conch-inspired PC-777.
If anyone thinks I need somewhat expensive computer items for christmas, this would be a good start.
Tags: gadgets, tech
December 14, 2005 at 10:49 am · Filed under General
I live on the fourth floor, and I usually take the stairs instead of the elevator. Like I did today. I went out, and on the short way to the stairs I got out my phone to check the time. I’m obviously not a woman, becuase it was proven that I lack the coordination required to look at a phone while walking down a stair.
After only a few steps I dropped the phone. I don’t know how, it just somehow left my hands. And, for some reason, the designer of the stairwell decided to put gap between the wall and the stair, providing an excellent free fall experience for dropped items. And not only down to the ground floor, but all the way to the basement. That’s where my phone went.
From where I was then that means a ten meter drop – or about 33 feet, in case you’re imperially impaired. So my Nokia fell. Literally. There was no cartoon-like bouncing between the walls or anything. Just straight down onto the stone floor.
And somehow it survived. Without a scratch. (It did break up into its removable components, though – the battery and front part of the cover were at the other wall)
I didn’t expect it to live through that, but I’m glad I don’t have to buy a new phone right now.
Oh, and my ISP upgraded me to a connection with 8Mbit downstream today. That’s quite nice. I’ll try not to drop the dsl hardware down the stairs.
Tags: gadgets, tech
November 18, 2005 at 6:30 pm · Filed under General
