The Incredible Invisible Case

Brett Profitt writes "No, it's not entirely like the clear pc case, and it's much, much cooler than a simple windowed case, but it would still look great with a hard drive window. This, my friends, is The Invisible Case ! " Truly a labor of love. This may be the nicest case I've ever seen. To bad you can't buy them like this! Check out the details (Transparent rubber feet, fans, and hard drive window). It absorbs envy beams from miles around.

kama ho + /.-ing

[Nate Fox]

for those trying to get to it (its a bit /.ed atm), the article is split up in 16 pages. The good pictures are on page 14 and 16. So try to get through to those, rather than taking a guess:
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72/14 [bit-tech.net]
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72/16 [bit-tech.net]

great except for one problem

[Lumpy]

It will look great for about 5 minutes. and DONT take it to a lan-party.
The type of plastic he chose is easy to polish and looks great, but scratches easier than any other plastic on the planet. Plexiglass is the worst in durability to scratches. yes you could buff out the scratches as you get them.

I like his idea, and I would love to see someone make one out of real glass with a metallic tint so that the RFI and EMI can't freely propagate out of the case. (You could get your case vaccuum-metalized... now that would be really cool.. not clear... CHROME!

Heres the pictures

[gavinhall]

Backup on their site

http://www.bit-tech.net/images/article/72/dscf13 66 .jpg
http://www.bit-tech.net/images/article/72/ds cf1367 .jpg
http://www.bit-tech.net/images/article/72/ds cf1368 .jpg
http://www.bit-tech.net/images/article/72/ds cf1369 .jpg
http://www.bit-tech.net/images/article/72/ds cf1370 .jpg

Re:Liquid CO2 ?

[The Mayor]

I hate to pick nits, but there's no such thing as liquid CO2 at 1 atm of pressure. Increase pressure and you can have liquid CO2.

Re:what would be really cool

[fiori]

That "smoke" you see with dry ice or liquid nitrogen is the water vapor in the air condensing. That would not be a good thing to have on your motherboard.

There is such a thing as liquid carbon dioxide, but only at pressures above 5 atmospheres.

Re:How serious is RF interference, anyway?

[jjhall]

As an amateur radio operator, I can add my $.02 worth.

In working with Packet Radio (data communications over amateur radio) I found that the emissions from my PC were way too high to use the "rubber duck" antenna on my radio, if it were in the same room. I found 2 fixes. One was to put an external antenna on my roof and use it. The other was to put a RF Choke (little black bulge on certain cables) on EVERY cable comming out of the back of the PC.

The EMI won't affect much outside a 10-20 foot radius, but AM radios, etc... that he tries to listen to in the same room or adjacent room will be hosed.

As far as pacemakers, etc... go, I don't have any idea.

Don't have a mirror for pics but

[JPriest]

just go to Google and type
site:www.bit-tech.net case
To see the rest of the pages on the site. Most people don't know about Googles search site feature, it's cool.

Google Mirror

[guamman]

Here is the google cached link: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:yFtkFzNXw54C: www.bit-tech.net/article/63/4+The+Invisible+Case+b it-tech.net&hl=en

Can be had retail

[Toodles]

Too bad you can't buy them like this!

You can purchase similar all plexi-glass cases from www.clear-viewtech.com [clear-viewtech.com]

Re:Google Mirror

[Hoonis]

Actually it's this: (no pictures though)
google cache [google.com]

Re:no shielding

[rekoil]

As a side note, I recently went from a wired network connection to a WLAN PCI card (The DSL came to my phone jack in my upstairs office, but Verizon delivered the T1 to the basement). I normally run my machine "naked", and discovered that in order to get a decent wireless signal, I had no choice but to replace the tower case cover.