CeBIT Stuff (1)

Since i'm about as brain dead as a koala sitting in a tree on a hot Sunday, I thought I might as well start off with some of the case mods presented by vendors as part of their booth decorations in CeBIT. Here are a couple of the nicer (and sharper) pictures my poor Ixus V40 managed to capture.

This was taken at CoolerMaster's booth, featuring a casing modded around what is supposed to be a Praetorian theme. Seeing as Praetorians are actually some species of Roman soldier, it's a little off that this mod incorporates what looks like bricks and some miscellaneous planks. On the other side of the case which you can't see, there is a wooden sword stuck to the side panel. Overall judgement: interesting, but lacks polish.

This is the booth of 'Point of View', a purveyor of graphics cards popular in Europe, and to some extent in the United States, but largely non existent in Malaysia. As you can see, this is nothing more than a computer built into the chest of a gigantic bat. Sure. I can make one of these easily. All I need to do is get myself a mannequin of sorts, hollow out the chest, and fit in a microATX motherboard. Take the easy way out, why don't you, POV?

These two pictures show a modded cube case, done by the people behind www.modmymachine.com. In the spirit of the popular MTV show 'Pimp My Ride', a bunch of europeans decided to pimp out, so to speak, a system of their choosing, while recording a video of it. Check out their website and download the picture. Sure, the acting is little stiff, and the English is mediocre at best, but the end product actually looks damn good. Also, the video production was pretty impressive, considering that these are a bunch of geeks who got together to build up a monster of a system. According to the guy standing by the machine, the mod took a little over 6 months to complete. Simply mind boggling.

Last but not least, is a computer built into a speaker unit. Nothing really impressive, yes, given my comments about the POV Bat Case above, but this is something new, as I haven't seen many mods of this type on the web. Too bad it was put behind a sheet of glass. Where is this, you ask? Creative's booth.

There were plenty of other mods around, especially in Hall 27, where there was a WCG-sponsored case modding competition. I didn't really bother shooting pictures there as my digital camera batteries were running flat, and none of the mods were as impressive.

More to come, later.