Sick and tired of being the progenitor of boring, ubiquitous business notebooks, Dell is showing off their line of artist-designed consumer laptops. The Art House laptops, which come in about a zillion different colors, designs and patterns, can be either designed online by customers themselves or built-to-order from amongst a huge selection of artist-created lids. They'll ship in 2009, and cost $649 and up.
Dell also showed off some new gear from its Alienware gaming brand. Along with several existing models sporting trumped-up guts – Core i7 processors, multiple videocards, enterprise-sized hard disks – Alienware was also demonstrating a new feature on its webcam-equipped notebooks: facial recognition login. Sit down at the machine, and the camera sizes up your face immediately, measuring the distances between key points on your dome – eye to eye, nose to chin, and so forth. Even if you grow a beard or gain 30 pounds, these measurements stay constant, so there's no risk that your machine will forget who you are. In the event that you have reconstructive surgery to outwit the FBI, there's always the fingerprint scanner on the palmrest.
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