Project Synapse

We wanted to keep the colour scheme going by skinning up the peripherals for the machine too, so we took everyone's favourite gaming surface, the Ratpadz GS, and skinned that using the specially designed mousepad skin. If you fancy having a go at this yourself, have a read of our full review



The finished thing looks pretty sweet, and is a gorgeous surface to game on.



Of course, having themed everything in sight thus far, we couldn't face the prospect of having just a regular keyboard. And we knew exactly what we wanted: one of these babies. It's manufacturered by Coolermaster, as is a full laptop keyboard with brushed Aluminium bezel. I'm told it has been withdrawn from the market due to poor sales (and high price??), but thanks to our friends at Kustom PCs we tracked down one of the last examples in the country.

Of course, that didn't stop just whipping out the screw driver and giving it the full treatment...



We took the beastie apart...



Measured it up...



Cut a few strips here and there....



And came up with a pretty neat-o looking piece of hardware.