Sure, we've got quite a few laptops kicking around the Engadget HQ, but we'd chuck them all in a heartbeat for a shot at this Atari 1500XL custom-built laptop from German modder Beetle. No expense was spared to give this thing an authentic look and feel, including the guts of three Ataris, a 1050 disk drive, 1027 printer, 1010 cassette player and a PC keyboard. Ben Heck

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If you're a musician of any type, odds are you've found yourself on stage more than once desperately hunting for some variety of esoteric adapter which is supposed to plug into a connector you've never seen before. Well, for those who've mounted Orbital style goggle-lights and gone digging into bottomless bags only to come up empty handed, today is your day. Enter the Electronic Musician's Emergency Adaptor kit -- a little red bag containing all of the connectors, adapters, splitters, and couplers you could ever want or need. With a wide variety of XLR, 1/8", 1/4", and RCA plugs, your excuses for sucking are probably going to get a lot more complicated.

[Via Gear Diary]

 

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