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(Video) Hard Drive Speaker System

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That’s right, a French-modder by the name of furrtek has created a functional “Hard Drive Speaker” system. To make your own, you’ll need cutting pliers, a soldering iron (30E), tin drop, flat screwdriver, lots of wiring, dead hard disk, and a pair of enclosures with buit-in amplifier (5W preferred). Full instructions here. Video after the jump.

An old Compaq harddrive I moded to play music from an amplified output. The sound you hear is only coming from it, the speakers you’ll see in the back are off

(Thanks, Zipped)

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Optimus Mini Three Reviewed

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ThoughtFix recently got their hands on the Optimus Mini Three keyboard. Just a quick refresher, this device has only three keys, each one featuring an OLED display — program them to launch applications or as hot keys. Video after the jump. Here’s the verdict:

The concept is great. The hardware is great. The software is where it all goes wrong. This software is unstable, feature poor, buggy, and even had incidents where the translations to English weren’t complete

[via UltraMobileGeek]

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A Look Back: Power Mac G4 Cube

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The Power Mac G4 Cube made its debut at MacWorld 2000 in New York. It was basically a “8” x 8″ x 8″ cube suspended in a 10″ tall Lucite enclosure, housed a PowerPC G4 processor running at 450 or 500 megahertz, and had an unconventional top-loading slot loading DVD-ROM drive.” Videos after the jump. Do you still own one?

Apple targeted the Cube at the market between the iMac G3 and the Power Macintosh G4. Despite its innovative design, critics complained that it was too expensive

[via Wikipedia]

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Hitachi AW37W2S Media Center PC

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The AW37W2S is Hitachi’s latest Media Center PC, and it’s definitely no slouch. Offering a 20-inch WXGA (1366 x 768) display, an Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz) processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, 320GB HDD, digital/analog TV tuners, and a DVD Super-Multi drive. External interfaces include five USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and a 3-in-1 memory card reader. Available September 16th, at the price of $2,486. [via Hitachi]

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ARMouse House

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Farooq Ahmad from the University of Alberta created ARMouse House, a “design tool that allows you to manipulate virtual 3D objects in an augmented reality setting.” Videos after the jump.

The manipulation and display is done in real time, and the system can be run on any PC equipped with a webcam

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A Look Back: First iMac Introduction

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Steve Jobs takes us back to May 7, 1998 with this iMac introduction, which replaced Apple’s Performa-series. Video after the jump.

At the time, Apple was unique in producing all-in-one desktop computers, in which the CPU and the monitor are contained in one enclosure. Many other PC manufacturers have tried to imitate this, most of which have met with little success

[via Wikipedia]

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A Look Back: Steve Ballmer Sells Windows 1.0

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Steve Ballmer uses “diversionary tactics” to sell Windows 1.0 in this amusing infomercial — all for just $99. Video after the jump.

Ballmer became Microsoft’s 24th employee on June 11, 1980, the first business manager hired by Gates. He was initially offered a salary of $50,000 as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8% of the company

[via Wikipedia]

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