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It was inevitable. You can have some moist, soft cake now :D

Billy Chasen, an artist of sorts, has made the headlines this morning as he presented his masterpiece:

Yes, that's a 4th Gen iPod and it still works! thanks to a dock connector embedded into the whole 'contraption', you can still charge and swap tracks. No idea on how you're able to use the rest of the functions like say, skip tracks and such, though so this would be the world's biggest iPod shuffle! Note: the 4x2 LEGO bricks!

More pics after the jump!

We don't know where our sudden Samus addiction came from, but the picture below is simply....stunning.  No doubt the beautiful Jenni Källberg's helmet mayb e a tad too big from the original, but hey, she's got the armor right, and just look at that hair! 

More pictures of Jenni here  

Bernstrand&Co has made an inflatable bikini to protect the wearer from dangers occuring during watersports, such as a sinking or even worse, jetski accident. The pads inflate a woman's assets to improbable proportions, giving much-needed buoyancy to the wearer and protecting her from drowning. Will you ever wear one? (directed to women of course!!)

[From Giz ]

Baloons and a car, sitting in a tree...K.I.S.S.I.N.G.

Yes, its improbable, but then again, what else is? This video was made possible by Mr. Crane in the background!

Asus has recently launched the low-end Nova PC boasting a 2l size and design that will spice up any room it's in. Details are still sketchy, although we do know from the Inquirer that it sports an E6320 processor and will cost about USD1000 (about RM3400).

The Nova is in the middle (not the girl, the PC!)

Kingston will be holding their 20th Anniversary celebrations at the PIKOM PC Fair (III) 2007, at their booths at the KLCC Hall 5 Booth 558 as well as the Persada Johor booth J124 venues. Visitors to the fair who purchase more than 1GB of Kingston products will be given a scratch card which contains redeption vouchers for Qee collectors items. Don't know what a Qee is? Look below:

Cute, isn't he? You can also win 512MB DataTraveler disks and other goodies, so don't forget to drop by!!

Although the usual PC Fair Girls post is a tad late, we bring to you a chick report on PC Fair which isn't dissapointing at all, and since its the end of the year, there's always the girls to look forward to. Enjoy

She was spotted at one of the smaller booths in hall 2...... more after the jump!!!

Lucky people Pc Games Hardware got their mitts on NVIDIA's latest triple-SLI configuration which includes three 8800 Ultras, a 1200W PSU and Crysis. Unfortunately they weren't able to play the game 'smoothly' as it only maxed out, at ultra settings at 37.9fps. If this isn't an indicator of how all our rigs suck, nothing else can drive home the point that Crysis is a resource hog. The latest hogzilla, anyone?

(RUMORED!) 

Apparently, some IT people from the Morrisville State College found out that our very own beloved console, the Xbox 360 can potentially warp 2.4Ghz wireless signals (that's the band which all your wireless keyboards, mice, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi appliances use), rendering the data streams into a total mess. Seriously, you could be the reason why your Wi-Fi isn't as strong as it used to be, or have you experienced dropped Bluetooth connections everytime you wander near the white tower? Apparently, this also happens when the console is switched off, or rather, in standby mode, so please, do us a favor and see if your console is potential wireless signal deathtrap.

From Giz and PCW 

  
This lucky dude named Dominick V. Strippoli recently got his hands on not one or two of the uber-fast MTorn 16GB SSD drives, but nine of them, affixing them in a RAID 0 config and benchmarking the wicked setup using almost all of the real-world performance benchmarks including notoriously slow Vista load times, Crysis and Photoshop. Interestingly, to get the setup running at its full speed, you really need the best RAID controllers, something which pushes the cost envelope higher. Check out his review here - SSD Drive Review. Super high speed computing, anyone?

Hot off the virtual pressrooms and into the 1st Jan fire! Asus reportedly is going to preview its second generation of Eee PCs, the computing solution that took the world by storm, beating other initiatives for low-cost computing by more than 350000 units shipped at the end of December last year. Now, just after winding down New Years celebrations, Asus has released a mysterious press release (in Chinese) which mentions that the second generation Eee will come with an 8.9" screen, among other delightful upgrades such as models with embedded XP, a price of no more than 50k yuan, and even WiMAX connectivity (which might be revealed at CES, thanks to this invite here). Stay tuned as we unravel the happenings.

 p.s. I was just about to get one!! Thanks for letting me wait 4 months more Asus! :D

Full story HERE 

Chris Taylor, the man behind the hit games Total Annihalation and more recently, Supreme Commander which I just loved apart from its frequent patches, is going to roll out a game called Demigod. Rather, his muse Gas Powered Games are. Billed as an action/RPG/RTS hybrid, it will play like DotA but with a twist - your bases are now made into the heroes directly under your control. These gargantuan walking hulks are the titular demigods and certain ones feature production buildings or factories on their bodies, using the produced units for defense or attacking positions, while other demigods work alone, housing attacking capability that rivals...another demigod. Watch out for this space = the title seems VERY intruiging, making it one of the more anticipated games for us this year....besides the long-awaited Spore.

Oh dearie me - a real, Microsoft-sanctioned parody of Bill's last day at work. What a sporting geek/rich man/boss he is! Not to mention, the cameos done by the who's who of anything makes it even sweeter. Can we have a movie version?? Pleeeeeeeaaaaassssseeeee Mr. Spielberg???