Hardware Bits

Posted by michael on Friday December 13, 2002 @01:47PM from the bit-o-honey dept.

Zygo writes "Again a little bit of hardware news for today: At MonkeyReview a very cool case... At DV Hardware a little article about an aluminium mousepad, called the Steelpad... OCCanada takes a look at the Gigabyte GA8PE667-Pro... ExtremeMHz brings you a guide to power... Some Christmas stuff... And Modthebox checks out a cool tachometer for PC's!" richie2000 submits a holiday-themed case mod: "A gingerbread case mod. Don't tell me you didn't see this one coming. And here's a mirror of one of the images."

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Re:Maybe I just don't get it... by cybergibbons · 2002-12-13 14:04 · Score: 5, Informative

You don't get it.
It turns on a multiway mains adaptor (powerstrip, four way etc.)using the 12V as a signal from your PC, so everything will go on and off at once. The power does not come from the power supply in the PC.
It was pretty clear from the article.