A-Tech Fabrication’s Glenn Lirhus talked with PodTech about his company’s Intel Core 2 Challenge PC design. A-Tech’s design was inspired by a remote control, and is intended for the home-theater enthusiast. Like many of the Core 2 Challenge contestants, A-Tech had a unique solution to the cooling problem. The aluminum ...

Gavin Rose, CEO of NS Optimum Ltd. in the UK talks about “Argon”, a PC shaped like a skull. This is their first venture into case making, and Rose explains the pain staking process for his entry in Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition.

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Founder of Swedish company Kapsel Multimedia, Wilhelm Lagerkranz, wanted a small, quiet computer he could use as a home media center. He looked around the marketplace and didn’t find what he wanted, so he decided to make it himself. Lagerkranz and his design team drew hundreds of sketches, trying to ...

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 ...