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The Spire X2.6011 MOD Series gamer chassis provides sufficient room for up to six large 12 cm cooling fans and the installation of water-cooling. The chassis also offers good cable management capabilities and is pre-applied with rubber grommet holes for feeding the external water-cooling tubes. It is compatible with all ATX/MATX/ITX mainboards, standard ATX switch power supply, and can be mounted up to 420mm graphics card. The Spire X2.6011 MOD Series gamer chassis retails for $178,95. [Spire]

The 787 wearing ANA colors

When Boeing delivered its new 787 airplane to United Airlines back in September, it was a moment for celebration. However, the Air Line Pilots Association has a problem with last-minute changes to the jumbo jet. Apparently, a key piece of safety equipment was purposely left out. The piece in question is a safety gate that’s designed to prevent bad guys from rushing the cockpit when the pilot goes to the bathroom. A well-placed cart can supposedly perform the same service, but it’s still disconcerting that a planned safety feature was removed from a final production plane. And the reason is even worse: it’s to save money. According to the ALPA, United is integrating its fleet with Continental’s, which don’t feature the safety gate. It’s a whole lot cheaper to remove the gate from new planes than to retrofit a whole fleet.

What do you think? Does this make you feel less safe while flying?

Photo courtesy of Gordon Werner.

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ASUS has unveiled the new RT-N12HP Wireless-N300 high-power router. The Wi-Fi router is equipped with a built-in signal amplifier, offering a true 300% increase in wireless transmit power over a standard 802.11n wireless router. The RT-N12HP features detachable 9dBi antennas, a user-friendly interface and supports up to four separate networks, with different bandwidth and access privileges. Unfortunately, there is no info on pricing or availability so far. [ASUS]

Every time a hot new gadget comes out, Colorware vomits its candy-colored paint all over it and charges a huge markup because of it. They must be making a lot of money per paintjob, because even though I see lots of gadgets on the streets, I never see any Colorware products, yet they still produce them. The latest victim? Apple’s “jewel” of a smartphone, which now comes in hundreds of customizable colors for the low, low price of $1700 for the 64GB model. Not only is there no option to order a iPhone with a smaller amount of storage, but you can’t send your old phone in. It’s not all bad though, Colorware’s iPhone customizing webapp offers a glimpse into an alternate universe where iPhones can come in all kinds of crazy colors, kind of like the iPod Touch. If you’ve got one that you think is really sweet, share it with us in the comments.

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