Gigabyte reinvents the Batmobile
Posted on 7th Jul 2010 at 10:37 by James Gorbold with 19 comments
Back when ATI launched the Radeon HD 5870, along with other journalists, we were immediately struck by the similarity of the new card's cooler to the classic 1960s Batmobile.
The other day, while doing some research on the price of graphics cards I was therefore quite amused to find that Gigabyte appears to have taken ATI's idea one step further and actually mounted a Batmobile on top of one of its cards.
Here's the original HD 5870:
And here's the Batmobile:
Now here's the Gigabyte - the card in question is the GV-R577UD-1GD, which means it's based on the Radeon HD 5770 GPU and has 1GB of on-board memory.
As you can see, this Gigabyte's heatsink is shaped even more like the Batmobile than the original HD 5870 cooler.
Aside from novelty USB keys, has anybody else spotted any other products recently that are clearly inspired by other real-life objects?
The other day, while doing some research on the price of graphics cards I was therefore quite amused to find that Gigabyte appears to have taken ATI's idea one step further and actually mounted a Batmobile on top of one of its cards.
Here's the original HD 5870:
And here's the Batmobile:
Now here's the Gigabyte - the card in question is the GV-R577UD-1GD, which means it's based on the Radeon HD 5770 GPU and has 1GB of on-board memory.
As you can see, this Gigabyte's heatsink is shaped even more like the Batmobile than the original HD 5870 cooler.
Aside from novelty USB keys, has anybody else spotted any other products recently that are clearly inspired by other real-life objects?
19 Comments
Discuss in the forums Replythat is all.
I Agree :D
(*technically it was ecchi not hentai but more poeple are familiar with the term hentai so meh. Also, why do we dereference a pointer every time we make a footnote? :D)
EDIT: OK, so it wasn't the demots thread.
Facepalm time back when I first saw it...
and what about the Inwin F430 Chassis?
If you're going to do this sort of thing then at least give it some thought, i.e.
http://www.hotcraze.co.uk/product/A64B2CEB-988D-402C-A21F-D78AB8B68705.aspx
and very sad
be a man and mod your own !!