Silverstone is said to be getting ready to introduce a new full-tower steel case for the Japanese market next month. Yes, this is slightly different from the usual aluminium case that we see from Silverstone. What’s more, the design language here resembles more of a Cooler Master than a Silverstone.

Anyway, this case is known to be the PS06, and is designed for both Micro ATX and ATX motherboards. It’ll feature a top-placed I/O panel with two USB 3.0 and audio ports, five 5.25-inch external drive bays, one 3.5-inch external drive bay, four 3.5-inch internal drive bays, a side panel window, eight expansion slots and has two fans (1x 120mm in front, 1x 180mm fan on top).

The PS06 is said to land in Japan on May 13th for 11,980 Yen (about $145).

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Yes, just as we suspect, Lenovo is indeed working on a ThinkPad tablet tailored to the professional ones. Just to make clear, this ain’t the Lenovo LePad . The device is said to feature a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 capacitive multitouch IPS display, a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, a 16GB/32GB/64GB of storage, an SD card reader, dual cameras (front & rear), 3G, WiFi, a micro USB port, a USB 2.0 port, a mini HDMI port and run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. The Lenovo ThinkPad is expected to go on sale in July for $499.

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Is conventional wood tablet too boring for you? If so, then you might want to add some LEDs to your tablet to give you some techno feel. Here’s one, and it’s called the Arbonata Light Table, available from nKcharms.

The tablet is injected with over 1,700 LEDs arranged in the shape of a tree. According to designer Dennis Vetu, it’s some sort of metaphor for the circle of life — as he explains on the Arbonata site, “tree becomes wood, and becomes light.” Metaphoric stuff as usual, from designers.

The company is said to be able to customize the design of the LED according to the customers’ request, though we can’t find any price list in the site.

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Is Amazon trying to become an electronics device manufacturer? Now that they have the Kindle, and a cheaper Kindle with ads, they’re aiming tablet next. Kindle Tab anyone?

According to Engadget founder Peter Rojas, Amazon is indeed working on a tablet and it’ll be released later on this year. Rojas claimed that the tablet would be an Android device and would launch this summer. Rojas says he’s “99 percent certain” Amazon has contracted Samsung to manufacture its tablet.

However, Amazon’s approach will be slightly different, as is the case with B&N’s NOOK Color. Amazon might use Android as a base but build a totally customized experience that “tightly integrates Amazon services.” Yes, you won’t get a Honeycomb Kindle.

“That integration would let Amazon charge a lot less for its tablet than it would otherwise,” writes Rojas. “The reason Barnes & Noble has been able to price the NOOK Color so aggressively ($250 versus $350 to $450 for comparably-sized and spec’d Android tablets) is because they’re assuming you’re going to buy a bunch of books from them over the course of owning it.”

Throw in Amazon Music, instant video, and apps from its new store and the company could end up selling quite a lot of content. So, just how cheap can they sell it if they’re banking on all that extra revenue? According to Rojas, Amazon could sell a 7-incher for as little as $199 if it had its heart set on being really aggressive. Something bigger than that, say 10 inches, might be more difficult to price competitively, pending on its specs.

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We already know that the next Wii successor will have a 6-inch display on its controller, and support for 1080p, as well as backward compatible with current Wii controllers and games. However, there’s more info now courtesy of IGN.

Sources close to IGN say that the next console will be based on a revamped version of AMD’s R700 GPU architecture, and, similar to the Xbox 360, the CPU will be a custom-built triple-core IBM PowerPC chipset. It will support 1080p and also possibly has stereoscopic 3D. The console could ship as early as the fall and carry a price tag somewhere in the region of $350 – $400. Of course, this price tag is just estimation from Foxconn, which is said to be building the console.

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Dell is said to be launching a Windows 7 tablet powered by the new Oak Trail chips from Intel, and also another Android 3.0 tablet powered by the famous dual-core Nvidia Tegra T25 chip. We already know about these tablets coming, but we never know when it’s coming, previously. Now there’s a leaked slide that shows the rumoured tablets and their arrival time.

The Windows 7 tablet will be called Latitude ST, boasts a resolution of 1366 x 768, 2GB of RAM, up to a 128GB SSD, GPS, an accelerometer, both front- and rear-facing cameras, an 8-hour removable battery, and “1080p video output,” which we assume means HDMI-out.

The Android 3.0 tablet will be called Streak Pro, and will have a 1200 x 800 panel, but keeps the pair of cameras (and two mics) for video chats, while adding an unspecified mobile broadband radio and slathering Dell’s Stage UI on top of Honeycomb

Price is still a mystery right now, but the leaked roadmap shows that Streak Pro will land in June, followed by the Latitude XT3 convertible tablet in July, and the Latitude ST in October.

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Apparently media outlets have already received an invitation to a Heart of the Swarm press event next month, as Blizzard plans to unveil the second part of its StarCraft 2 “trilogy” for the first time next month. This event will most probably cover the campaign side of the game, as the multiplayer changes or additions will only be shown over at BlizzCon 2011.

In this second chapter, the focus will be on Sarah Kerrigan and the Zerg legions. New legions are expected to appear along with an RPG-like mechanic. Media outlets present at the event will likely be given the green light to offer coverage, giving salivating StarCraft 2 fans a better look into the post-Wings of Liberty story.

Currently Blizzard is planning to launch Heart of the Swarm in early 2012, though that might change in the course of time. However, Kotaku points out that it received its press event invitation for an early peek at Wings of Liberty nearly a year in advance of the game’s retail releases. That said, this time next year we could be knee deep in Zerg goodness.

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During the weekend, I had a chance to use a friend’s ThinkPad, and it felt superbly sturdy and very nice to use, unlike those cheapo laptops from Acer and Compaq. However, the dread thing about ThinkPad is that they’re so bulky and thick and heavy, no wonder everyone is ditching them and taking iPads instead. But now, the ThinkPad is back, and ready for some nice fight.

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Pushed from June to July to September to January, now it’s finally here in April, or you can call it May since we’re getting ready to say goodbye to April anyway. Yes, it’s the real deal, not a Chinese white body-case add-on shit. The white iPhone 4 is now officially available.

We’ve seen retailers making space for the elusive handset since January, and now Vodafone UK’s inventory systems were showing the white iPhone 4 as shipping in. Apparently customers in Britain have received the phones over the weekend.

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