Computer Case of the Month

 

  
    Here's another computer case that I picked mainly for my father. At first glance this case has nothing more than the John Deere colours and gas pump aesthetics to make it stand out. However, if you really look at it, this was built to address the needs of the case builder. The case sits on the left side of the desk in the picture, and it has been configured to be perfectly at home there. Most conventional cases have access to removable storage, (CD, DVD, Blu-ray, flash card readers, and USB ports in the front, with peripheral connections to the motherboard at the rear. Just barely visible are the hinges on the front left side of the case. This means the user can open the green door from the right side for easy access to pop in his thumb drive full of John Deere tractor photos. Instead of having the motherboard mounted on the right hand side of the case, which is pretty much standard on, (and I'm guessing here), 95% of the towers you will ever see. The motherboard is mounted to the rear of the case. This allows the user to easily access the connections, and the cables don't have to loop back to run down the left side of the desk. He even went so far as to install an exhaust fan with a green LED. So where is this computer getting power. I'm going to guess that it's through the cable coming in under that fan. I think the power supply has been modified to either reside outside (or completely inside the case itself.) Either way, what I thought at first was just an interesting paint job and case mod, has me wanting to look deeper inside this case.  

 

  
   

Wii Ha!

The Sega Toylet. This is the game system that should have been called the Wee. The Toylet is the latest attempt to turn a urinal into a video game. In early 2011, Sega installed these game consoles in a few public restrooms in Tokyo. A pressure sensor is installed inside the urinal; a video display is installed at eye level above it. "Players" aim for the sensor as they make use of the facilities. There are four games to choose from: "Manneeken Pis," which calculates the volume of urine released from the time spent urinating and the pressure generated; "Graffitie Eraser," in which you use a virtual fire hose to spray graffiti off a wall; "The Northern Wind and Her," in which you try to generate enough pressure (wind) to lift a girl's skirt, revealing her underwear; and "Milk from the Nose," in which you try to generate mor pressure than the last person who used the urinal. When the games are over, the video screen plays an advertisement. [MaDaEdit: Advertising most likely for dry cleaning to get piss splashback stains off your clothes.] The Toylets are experimental; Sega says it has "no concrete plans to turn them into actual products.

 

 

  
Email MaDaStar