Tag: HGG-50

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Gamer, Under $50) With the long-awaited Street Fighter 4 right around the corner (well, early next year), SF mania has hit full steam. And for those who want their fix now, don't hesitate: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, aside from having the longest title in the series, is a visual punch to the face. Each and every character has been recreated ...

Innovative Cricket Laptop Stand (Creative types, Under $50) For those of us who have thrown caution to the wind with our own jury-rigged laptop stands, Innovative's offering is a total godsend. Whether used as a simple prop to angle a laptop's keyboard up and allow heat to better circulate, or to plug in a full-sized keyboard and have the screen go vertical, the Cricket can handle it. And ...

Snowball Launcher (Jock, Under $50) This is the kind of product that makes you hate your parents for having given birth to you too soon. Despite looking like a Needler from 'Halo,' the Snowball Launcher uses a simple slingshot mechanism built into its body to lob frozen ordinance up to 80-feet away. On top is a three-at-atime snowball packer for high-speed loading -- think of yourself as a ...

Nintendo DS Korg DS-10 (Music Lover, Under $50) Presumably targeted at precocious, modern-day Mozarts or budding sound engineers, the Korg DS-10 is a full-fledged synthesizer/sequencer/music machine. Based on the legendary Korg MS-10 keyboard synthesizer, this software version takes advantage of the DS's split screens to make robust tune creation relatively easy, and, well, completely portable. ...

Tokyo Bay Tokibot Clock (Domestic God/Goddess, Under $50) When the robots come to enslave us all?and they will?a little forethought in the form of a devotional idol will surely go a long way to saving the humans. Tokyo Bay's retro-styled robot clock doesn't do much other than tell the time, stand and look pretty cool, but for devout tech geeks that's more than enough to ask for in a ...

Mousenvy (Gadget Hound, Under $50) If you're going to have to fiddle with a mouse for 40 hours a week, it may as well be one you like. Mousenvy puts out a ridiculously tricked out line of cursor-movers that range from a chili pepper or valentine's heart to classic heartwarmers like a rubber ducky or ladybug. And then to bizarro headscratchers like the Toxic Brain, but to each his own. ...

Infectious Laptop Covers (Style Maven, Under $50) For those who like to mix it up a bit rather than be a walking billboard for their laptop's maker, Infectious offers a slick line of laptop art: vinyl stick-on sheets designed by a stable of international artists with styles ranging from trippy abstraction to Japanimation to purely graphical. They offer a range of sizes depending on a laptop's ...