On my way to dinner, hurrying through one of the vast halls of this immense show, I ran into Tyrell Kulin of Voodoo Computers. Voodoo is part of Hewlett-Packard, but you wouldn't know it by looking at Voodoo's booth -- or at their PCs. Voodoo is to HP what Shelby is to Ford. It's where the restraints come off and the design is all about performance without compromise. As you might imagine, Voodoo's booth was one big shooting gallery, where guys in sites blasted away at simulated monsters and supervillians alongside kids in studs and tattoos. The noise was deafening, but I got a chance to interview Tyrelle about their flagship machine, the Blackbird. Voodoo's choice for the chassis of this bad-boy tower PC is aluminum: 80 pounds of it. Why? Because it looks cool. It manages the heat thrown off by the Blackbird's overclocked quad-core Intel chip. And, because Voodoo cares, it recycles when and if an end of life should ever come for Blackbird.
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