Last week four judges–IDEO Founder David Kelley, former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Miller, GQ Associate Editor Kevin Sintumuang, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini–gave the finalist PCs in the Core 2 Challenge a once-over. A few designs that made the top ten happen to be top secret and can’t be shown ...

“d-frag” from Germany attended the DCMM, Deutschen Casemod Meisterschaft (German Case Mod Championship) show in Dortmund, Germany last year. He shares pictures of some of the incredible mods from Germany and other EU countries. Attendance at years show is expected to break records, and feature even wilder ...

Originally from Texas, this modder goes by the handle “Envador.” He graduated from the University of Texas in 2000, and he’s been living in Southern California for the past 4 years, where he and his wife were married in the fall of 2005. He works at an A/V electronics company ...

With the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design contest deadline looming, tea-drinkers drank coffee, testers didn’t sleep, and boxes got packed in overdrive. This video, produced by BICOM, takes you behind the scenes, during the race to the finish, at the Connecticut company whose three PC designs, the HMS1, HMS7 ...

Paddy White, CEO of RealTime Technologies, in Dublin, Ireland, sent us this video about his company’s entry in Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition. The iONYX imitates the look of stone, appropriate for geologically-rich Ireland. White contends this design will “look well in any room of the digital home.” ...

Vivid, luminous, precious - these were some of the terms Paddy White and his design team at RealTime Technologies came up with over a couple of pints of Guiness in a Dublin pub. The iONYX, RealTime Technology’s design entry for the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design, is made of ...

Industrial designer Anthony Forsythe talks about Norwegian company Asono’s Merium, entered in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Designs. The Merium can be done in custom colors, using a material usually found in kitchen countertops — corian. “As far as we know, this is the first time corian has ever ...

Now through April 19, 2007, people can visit www.intelchallenge.com and vote for their favorite concept PC design. Voters get to choose from designs submitted by companies competing for $1 million in the industry Intel Core Processor Challenge. A group of computer and design experts will award the winners in ...

Last September at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge, a design competition aimed at pushing desktop design far beyond its traditional “beige box.” To compete for a $1 million bounty, more than two dozen designers from around the world responded by building an ...

Kevin Chang, project director at Acer, in Taiwan, talks up his company’s entry in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition, the Aspire L320 Desktop PC. Chang said at three liters volume size, Acer’s Aspire L320 Desktop PC is a slim, efficient and cool offering for the digital home. ...

“The first thing we did when we designed this thing was, we threw everything out, everything that you expect from a computer,” said Jeffrey Stephenson, president of Florida-based Slipperyskip Computers. The Decomatic 12b combines Art Deco-inspired design with state-of-the-art Intel Core 2 Duo processing power. A single fan and hidden ...

The Magic Box is actually two units: a fully functioning computer that detaches from the media server base featuring a 2.5-inch HDD bay, two-way speakers and a USB port for connecting it to other PCs. A high performing, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor allows for a compact design that ...

Curves of brushed aluminum grace the BICOM HMS7, a combination PC and media server designed for the digital home. Inside, there’s a high-performance, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but outside the user-friendly front panel features touch-screen LED controls for music, movie, and program functions. Future expandability options include PCI, ...

“The PC has been a clunky box for a long time,” said Ekin Binal, VP of product development for BICOM. “We’re taking a new spin on it.” The HMS8’s cubicle design is a high-end PC media server that integrates a CD, DVD Player/Recorder, and Digital Media Player. The front panel ...

An easy-to-use interface and touch-sensitive buttons were the main breakthroughs in the three systems Connecticut-based BICOM submitted to the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design. This aluminum covered media server is styled for the digital home. Built on the Intel VIIV technology platform using a mobile Intel Core 2 ...

“We tried to reduce everything to the necessary minimum,” said mCubed Information Technology GmbH’s Managing Director, Maik Berendt. mCubed’s submission for the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design, the aluminum and acrylic HFX micro, uses an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a fanless, noiseless cooling system of integrated heatsinks ...