Tag: HGG50

Super-Secret Spy Lens (Video Junkie, under $50) So often ethics, morality, and general anxiety disorder get in the way of a great photo. Not so with the Super-Secret Spy Lens, which attaches to the lens on the end of your DSLR camera and allows you to shoot left, right, up, or down (it swivels 360 degrees), all while looking like you're shooting straight ahead. It doesn't affect the quality ...

Sticking to a budget of $50 or less this year for gifts? Good news: Some of the wackiest, most unique gadgets usually cost about half that. And, until recently, some of the most uniquely daffy gizmos of all could only be found in Japan, where those kinds of products tend to sell well. Now, however, you can find all this stuff online at sites such as Gizmine.com, acgears.com, and ...

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 ...