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Apple LED Cinema Display (Creative, Under $1000) The increases in productivity and relief on the ol' eyes offered by additional screen real estate have been touted for years, and we can hardly imagine ever going back to a one-monitor system. Designers, artists, photographers, and video pros have been using Apple's Cinema Displays for years and for good reason: The picture clarity, color ...

Drobo (Creative, Under $500) Anyone who uses their computer to make music or movies has run into the problem of dwindling disk space. So rather than giving them another hard drive to clutter their desktop, how about the gift of Drobo? This all-in-one storage solution holds up to four drives, and it's a gift that keeps on giving: when the time comes, they just pop out one of the old drives and ...

Wacom Bamboo Fun (Creative, Under $100) There are few more useful tools for the digital artist than a Wacom tablet. As anyone who has attempted to draw onscreen with a mouse is well aware, it's virtually impossible: tablets let artists go to town just as they would with a pen and paper, but with all the digital tools in the world at their disposal. While Wacom makes a wide range of tablets ...

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 ...

Gorillapod Focus (Traveler, Under $250) The last thing shutterbugs want to lug around on vacation is a big, bulky, heavy tripod. Unfortunately sometimes you need one to get the shot you want, which is what makes Joby's line of flexible, fold-up tripods so excellent. Their newest Focus model is, well, focused on professional or prosumer types (of both the still and video varieties) who tend to ...

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 ...