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If you haven’t faced MacBook Air overheating issues, you’re clearly in the minority, and regular ol’ MacBook users have been faced with plenty burnination of their own. While there are plenty of laptop coolers out there, none have been so specifically designed to address these two perennial overheaters as Moshi’s Zefyr. The aluminum heatsink setup has an “ultra-silent” USB-powered fan and is quite minimal, just concentrating on the MacBooks’ problem spots up top. Even better for Air users: you won’t be monopolizing your lone USB plug to work it. Zefyr is available now for $75 in silver or black.

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While Microsoft has seen it fit to keep XP around as its “relatively non-bloated OS” alternative to the Linux that has dominated this new category of “ultra low-cost PCs” (ULPCs), they’re certainly not giving away the farm. Microsoft doesn’t want this version of XP Home creeping into mainstream laptops and desktops, where it might compete with Vista sales and high-margin machines from PC manufacturers. To that end, Microsoft is setting the limits for ULPCs at 10.2-inch screens, 80GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, 1GHz processors (with some exceptions) and no touchscreens. The upshot is that licenses for XP will go for $26 in developing nations and $32 elsewhere. Too bad the XP faithful among us will need to try a bit harder to wrangle XP onto new machines of theirs that don’t fit these narrow specifications.

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Until Nintendo caves in and offers giant NES controller cases to the public, the task is left up to gamers who love to mod in their spare time. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Litch King basically “takes players to a new area in northern Azeroth, Northrend, where the fallen prince Arthas plots and schemes on a way to wreak havoc on the world.” Videos after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

As soon as players enter the new area, they’ll be thrown into a new world of trouble that includes an original storyline, a level 80 cap, new skills, abilities, dungeons, gear, an extra profession and a brand new hero class.

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When is Pleo not Pleo? When a “highly destructive ComBot predator rolls around the ring and rips tiny Pleo to shreds.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Poor little Pleo. The innocent and uber-cute robot dinosaur suffered at the hands of your DVICE narrators, sure, but that mild session of humiliation pales by comparison to this whipping Pleo took at Maker Faire last weekend.

[via Dvice - Botjunkie]

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Finally, GT provides us with an exclusive Gears of War 2 gameplay trailer, which looks amazing to say the least — everything from the graphics to gameplay. Continue reading to watch.

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Sometimes, “less is more”, and it rings true with the “Alley House”. This five-story home measures less than 8-feet wide, but manages to cram all the amenities you’d anticipate in a regular living space into its small footprint. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Built on a steel frame, this home office took only a few weeks to construct. It’s particularly eco-friendly, and while each level is absurdly small, the floor to ceiling windows do wonders to cut through the jail syndrome.

[via Gizmodo - Archinect]

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Not your average MacBook Air parody — no Apple bashing — this one shows why the standard MacBook is definitely “thin enough” to fit inside a manila envelope. Continue reading to watch.

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What sets this touchscreen universal remote apart from others, aside from the fact that it’s just a concept…for now, is it allows users “to change the television’s volume to turning on the oven or dimming the lights.” No word yet on availability. Click here for first picture in gallery.

What if you could control everything in your home with a little handheld gadget? That’s what this universal remote by David Chacon got us thinking about, with its roomy screen - a nerve center right in your pocket.

[via Dvice]

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Beneath the shell of this VHS deck lies the internals of a G3 iMac, fully preserved and functional to boot. Next up, the iBlu-ray. Click here for first picture in gallery.

With the addition of an ATX power supply, a few cables, a VGA connector and some electrical tape, this FrankensteinÂ’s monster of a Macintosh was born.

[via Technabob - Macmod]

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