Tag: HGG5000

Coin-op Arcade games (Gamer, Under $5000) What's the only video game hardware that would make a better gift than a PlayStation 3 this Christmas? An upright arcade machine, of course. The Pinball Company sells such classics as 'Alpine Racer' (for skiing enthusiasts), 'Daytona USA' (for racing enthusiasts), and 'Burgertime' (for grilled beef patty enthusiasts), for prices ranging from $1500 to ...

Velocity Raptor and Edge Gaming PCs (Gamer, Under $5000) The baddest gaming PC around is Velocity's Raptor: it comes in several flavors, from the "bang for the buck" Z5 to the "bucks are not an issue" high-end systems. The Raptor Z90 comes tricked out with everything your beloved gamer will need, and you can of course customize it to their liking (we might suggest upgrading the graphics card to ...

Sony Vaio TT (Traveler, Under $5,000) In the ongoing race among laptops to be the strongest, thinnest, lightest whatever, Sony's latest Vaio has taken the lead: the world's smallest Blu-ray player-equipped notebook. That alone is enough to get us throwing high-fives, but the capper is that it also has a 7.5-hour battery life, which means a traveler could conceivably watch four entire HD movies ...

Expresso S2 Upright Bike (Jock, under $5,000) For that lovable but slackjawed fatty in your life, a high tech method may be the best choice to take off some pounds . Expresso's S2 is fully tricked out with gym-quality gear -- an integrated 17-inch LCD with TV tuner, steerable handlebars, a heavy-duty shifter, cardio monitor and a control pad for the TV or tuning in internet radio. Riders pedal ...

Tenori-on (Music Lover, under $5,000) The crème de la crème of niche musical gadgets, the Tenori-on was developed by Japanese gaming god and conceptual artist Toshio Iwai. To understand it, you really have to see it?hey, here's a link!?but the gist is that it's a pad with a 16 x 16 array of dots that both trigger sounds and lights, letting you created a seemingly unlimited ...

Optimus Maximus (Gadget Hound, Under $5000) Quite possibly the closest your deep-pocketed geek will ever get to feeling like they're at the controls of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the Optimus Maximus is the ultimate keyboard, completely customizable to the every whim and pique of its owner. Beneath each key on the keyboard is a tiny color OLED screen that explains its function, and every key is ...

Asus U6V-B1 Bamboo Laptop (Man/Woman Who Has Everything, Under $5,000) Computer companies do everything then can to distinguish their models from the hordes of similarly specced plastic PCs out there, but Asus took it a step further: Rather than just paint their remarkably full-featured 2.75-pound sub-notebook green, they actually made it Green. The U6V-B1 has a case made of water-resistant ...

New MacBook Pro (Creative Type, Under $5,000) Next to getting Obama in the White House, your typical Macolyte wants nothing more in this world than, well, the newest MacBook Pro (okay, maybe make that Steve Jobs in the White House). Apple's recently introduced update brings a slew of changes: a super strong, light, and sub one-inch-thick body, a push-button multi-touch trackpad, a bright ...

HP TouchSmart PC (Domestic God/Goddess, Under $5000) Oh, Apple must be pissed -- HP put out the next-gen desktop that the iMac should've been. This all-in-one is a standout already, with its vast and thoughtful features list: a built-in TV tuner with full-size remote; an ambient light sensor that illuminates the wireless keyboard and mouse; a webcam and microphone for video chats; a full array ...