.FLYINGHEAD HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
.TITLE Nice gifts for givers on a $50-500 budget
.AUTHOR David Gewirtz
.SUMMARY Bummed that the WestBay yacht is going to someone else this holiday season? Dejected that no one would share Alienware love with you? Perhaps you’re still moderately worthy. Here’s our $50-500 gift guide.
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Bummed that the WestBay yacht is going to someone else this holiday season? Dejected that no one would share Alienware love with you? Perhaps you’re still moderately worthy.
Let’s do a quick recap. In [[http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200612/00001894001.html|"Super-expensive gifts for the rich and excessive"]], we covered extravagant gifts over $5,000 and into the millions. In [[http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200612/00001897001.html|"Expensive (but worth it) gifts for the truly worthy"]] we explored gifts between $500 and $5,000. In this installment of our Holiday Gift Guide, we’re looking at some very cool gifts that are priced between $50 and $500. Even you’re worth $500? Aren’t you?
Rather than just the dull recitation of popular products, we’ve turned to the ZATZ editors, to a bunch of experts in the [[http://www.netpress.org/|Internet Press Guild]], and to a bunch of tech gaming enthusiasts, my own gaming buddies in the Iron Phoenix gaming community.
.H1 Gaming consoles
Let’s knock out the gaming consoles first. You know this is the major geek draw this holiday season, so we might as well send them some love. Universally, our panel nominated the [[http://www.nintendo.com/channel/wii|Nintendo Wii]], shown in Figure A, as the must-have console this season.
.FIGPAIR A If you can find a Wii, take a Wii.
Despite the incredible temptation to make bad puns, the Wii will become the new classic business case study for excellent product strategy. While the PlayStation 3 introduced at a mind-blowing $599, the Nintendo Wii has been introduced for $249 and includes the game Wii Sports. If you’ve been living under a rock, you might not know that the Wii’s popularity is all about creating a new kind of fun video game, one where you move your controller in 3D space. You swing it like a bat to hit a baseball, you punch with it in a fight, you flip it out like Spiderman to cast Spidey’s web, and so forth.
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The second choice for most gamers on our panel was the [[http://www.xbox.com|Xbox 360]]. Most said that if you couldn’t find a Wii, they’d settle for the more expensive, HD-ready Xbox 360, shown in Figure B.
.FIGPAIR B We like the Xbox 360. It’s a solid, fun machine.
Oh, whatever you do, don’t go buying the cheaper Xbox 360 Core system for anyone. It’s cheap and it’s missing key elements any gamer will need, including, ah, duh, a hard drive.
In terms of handheld gaming, our current favorite is the [[http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/About|PlayStation Portable]] (known as the PSP). This $199 handheld, shown in Figure C, has great screen resolution, can play movies nicely, and supports some fun and some truly terrible games. Plus, we you can run Linux on it (but you might void the warranty).
.FIGPAIR C I like my PlayStation portable.
So, what about the monster PlayStation 3? No one wants in. Not a single member of our panel even mentioned it. Overpriced. More of the same. Other than its appeal to insane fanboys, could the PlayStation franchise finally be ready to die? Couldn’t happen to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal|"nicer" company]].
.H1 Smartphones, PDAs and whatnot
After gaming systems, the next most popular product category was, as you might expect, PDAs and smartphones. Let’s hit a rundown of some of our favorites.
Leading the pack is the [[http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo700p/|Treo 700p]], shown in Figure D.
.FIGPAIR D This is no trivial Treo.
If you’re a fan of the Palm OS, this is the phone to get. This, in fact, is what I choose to carry when I’m not testing out new devices. The Treo 700p is the perfect combination of smartphone goodness: it’s fast, using the EvDO network. It supports all your favorite Palm applications, and it can act as a high-speed modem for your laptop. If you can afford the $300 or so, this is definitely our favorite.
If you want to save a hundred bucks, you can also consider getting the [[http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo680/|Palm Treo 680]]. This is very much the nextgen Treo 650, with half the memory of the 700p and running on a slower network. Honestly, we really recommend you pony up the extra C-note and go for the 700p.
Nettie Hartsock recommends the [[http://www.discoverblackberry.com/devices/device-detail.jsp?navId=H0,C63,P204|BlackBerry 8703e]] smartphone:
.QUOTE It’s must buy because I’ve finally acquiesed to the fact that yes indeed as a tech writer, I need a Blackberry. I’m leaving my other carrier come December 31st to move to Verizon!
Nettie listed the phone, shown in Figure E, as $249 with a two year contract, but in our most recent visit to the [[http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=2546|Verizon]] site, it was $199.
.FIGPAIR E The BlackBerry’s the low-hanging fruit of mobile email appliance.
So why get a BlackBerry instead of a Palm or a Windows Mobile device? One answer is simply preference. If you’re a BlackBerry person, then you’ll like this device more. The BlackBerry’s known for how it manages email while the Treo is known for its organizer chops. If you’re more of an email junkie, you may prefer the BlackBerry.
Are you more of a Windows Mobile fanatic? If so, you might want to consider the [[http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo700w/|Treo 700wx (from Sprint) or the Treo 700w (from Verizon)]], shown in Figure F.
.FIGPAIR F Both of these are reasonably nice Windows Mobile smartphones.
Both are Palm-manufactured Windows Mobile phones and both are high-speed EvDO. If you’re going to pick one, we’d recommend the Sprint Treo 700wx simply because it supports dial-up networking from your laptop, something Verizon restricts. That said, the Treo 700wx can often be more than $150 more than the 700w.
Confused yet? Well, I’m going to throw out a few more numbers, because we didn’t like the Treo 700w series all that much. We were much happier with the [[http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200603/00001742001.html|Sprint PPC-6700]] and the [[http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200603/00001731001.html|Verizon XV6700]], shown in Figure G. Both were about the same price as the Treos, but were higher performance, with more features.
.FIGPAIR G This has a slide-out keyboard that’s very cool.
Finally, if you’re in the mood for cheap, we recommend the very slick-looking [[http://www.virginmobileusa.com/phones/phoneDetail.do?skuId=VM1400|UTStarcom SLICE from Virgin Mobile]], shown in Figure H.
.FIGPAIR H It’s cheap and sexy. Gotta love that!
This thing’s incredibly thin, has basic Web browsing (no camera), and, best of all us $49.99. Technically, we should put this phone into our super-cheap gifts series, but we figured it’d be easier to lump it in with the other phones.
DominoPower contributor Ron Herardian also recommends the [[http://www.palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tx/|Palm TX]] WiFi PDA, shown in Figure I.
.FIGPAIR I Surf the Web from bed.
This is the ideal bed-surfing PDA, since it’s got a huge screen and WiFi. At $299, it’s a bit pricey to not include phone service, but it’s still a very nice little machine. Finally, I just recommended the [[http://www.palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tungsten-e2/|Palm Tungsten E2]], shown in Figure J, to my mom.
.FIGPAIR J This is an ideal lower-end Palm handheld
She recently got a new cell phone and when her 7-year old Handspring finally died, a Treo wasn’t in the cards. Instead, the E2 was a perfect replacement, with a beautiful screen and an SD card slot, so she can backup the machine when she’s away from her computer.
.H1 Keep the tunes rockin’
So, you’ve gotten the PDA religion, but now you want to take care of your tunes. Nettie Hartsock recommends the $299 [[http://shop.xmradio.com/detail.aspx?pid=476&cat=36|Portable Pioneer Inno]], shown in Figure K, which will let you listen to your XM Radio tunes.
.FIGPAIR K When you need your Dylan, you need your Dylan.
Here’s what Nettie says about it:
.QUOTE I’m hooked on Air America and Bob Dylan’s show and desperately want this Portable Pioneer Pink Inno.
She’s not alone. Denise has listened to every one of Dylan’s shows as well. If you haven’t tuned in, you should. The Poet Laureate of Rock and Roll, himself, chooses a series of songs to match a theme, plays them during his program, and intersperses fascinating comments about just about anything and everything. This is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to listen in on the musical preferences of one of America’s greatest artists.
This device caused a firestorm with the RIAA (who else?) because it also lets you record up to 1GB of XM Radio programming and take it with you wherever you go. You know how the RIAA is about these things. They want you to pay for your music, but if you insist on listening to it, then you’re Public Enemy #1.
If you want your tunes with a lot less choice, technical editor Theo Durst recommends the newly redesigned [[http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle|iPod Shuffle]], shown in Figure L.
.FIGPAIR L The Shuffle is one of the cheapest gifts you can buy with an Apple logo on it, unless you are the kind of geek who gives folks USB cables.
Here’s what Theo has to say on yet another Apple product:
.QUOTE I am impressed with the new redesigned iPod shuffle. Now this is a major statement coming from me, because I generally detest iPods. Gone is the cheap plastic case (what were they thinking with that neck loop, anyway!). Instead we get an anodized aluminum casing, a real charging dock, no hard drive to crash and no screen to crack. It is still a Shuffle, it decides what order you will listen to your tracks in. Don’t like the choice? Shuffle again. And it is so small you can clip it to your jacket when you shuffle off to Buffalo (OK, I couldn’t resist).
People still want iPods. It’s sad, but true. No matter how much hype the new Microsoft Zune dusted up, no one wanted a Zune and we had iPod desires among most of our editorial panel. Personally, I find the iPod incredibly annoying, but even so, in my personal life, I own one, too.
While we’re on the topic of Apple products, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Editor, Linux & Open Source at Ziff Davis Internet suggests you might want the yet-to-be-shipped Apple iTV. The iTV is basically supposed to be a media extender for your iTunes movies. Here’s what Steven has to say:
.QUOTE I want an Apple iTV. I want it now. And, I can’t have it, until, at the earliest, 1st quarter 2007.
If you’re curious why, Steven wrote a [[http://practical-tech.com/entertainment/apples-itv-may-be-just-what-we-need/|great article]] about it. We actually think he might be right. The idea of a device married to iTunes, that might pull down video podcasts and feed them to your TV with minimal muss — well it has appeal. Expectations are for this device to be about $250 or so.
If you can’t wait for the iTV, perhaps you might want to consider one of the [[http://www.slingmedia.com|Slingbox]] models. These handy devices send any video in your home out over the Internet, so you can watch, say, your Tivo on your cell phone.
.H1 An interesting camera
We recently had the chance to look at a new Canon consumer non-SLR camera. And while cameras are normally the domain of our Connected Photographer Magazine, this particular one is so over the top in terms of image capacity we just had to recommend it here. The [[http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=14220|Canon SD900 Elph]], shown in Figure M, is a $499 10 megapixel camera.
.FIGPAIR M You can take huge images with this.
This is sort of a strange hybrid. There’s no real need for 10 megapixels unless you’re planning on making monster prints and, if you’re going to do that, it’s likely you’re more of a photographic artist or a pro. And if you’re a pro, you’re likely to want an SLR, a camera where you can change some lenses.
Even so, the SD900 is an impressive camera, especially at this size and price. It’s got a few other nice features including something Canon calls face detection (we’re not yet sure if this is the camera trying to be too smart, or if it’ll be a help). It’s also got PictBridge, which makes it easy to share images with other devices.
.H1 Essential tools for working at home and modding
If you’re one of those people who are into modifying your PC, cutting the back out of your Tivo, or fixing stuff for your wife, the Dremel rotary tool is an essential tool. Most of us know about Dremels, but you might not know the Dremel’s undergone a pretty radical transformation in the last few years.
We had the opportunity to take a look at two unique Dremel products, the Dremel 400 Series XPR and the Dremel Stylus. For basic tasks, the [[http://www.dremel.com/en-us/tools/tool-detail.htm?H=188091&G=66204&I=69808|Cordless Stylus]], shown in Figure N, is a wonder to use.
.FIGPAIR N When it’s in its package, this thing looks like a dormant Cylon.
I’ve had many Dremel products over the years, but the Cordless Stylus has been the most convenient. It comes with a docking cradle, just like your favorite PDA. It’s got a lithium-ion battery, so you won’t see the "memory effects" you might have seen with older cordless devices. And it fits your hand perfectly — making it easy to do all sorts of delicate work.
Without a doubt, though, the coolest and most versatile device is the [[http://www.dremel.com/en-us/tools/tool-detail.htm?H=188091&G=66981&I=69673|400 Series XPR]], shown in Figure O.
.FIGPAIR O Holy rotary tool, Batman!
This is the Batman Utility Belt of rotary tools. First, it’s your basic corded Dremel. But you can tweak it up with a wide variety of attachments, from a flex shaft to a circle cutter. You can even turn it into a jigsaw and add an attachment that’s fundamentally a planer — use it to trim up door frames and shave wood or other materials from projects. You can even turn your Dremel into a mini-shaper/router. Just amazing.
In addition to the attachments that attach to the rotary tool itself, Dremel offers a variety of shop tools that augment the rotary tools. By far, our favorite is the [[http://www.dremel.com/en-us/attachments-and-accessories/attachment-accessory-detail.htm?H=188575&G=69679&I=69727|220-01 Workstation]], shown in Figure P. This nifty device turns your Dremel into a tiny precision drill press.
.FIGPAIR P If you’ve got small, precision projects, this is an ideal tool for you.
.H1 Two not-so-blind mice
We’ve looked at a lot of mice in our time, and many of them have unique features. But if you want to get a gift that’s both helpful and convenient, you might want to consider the Targus Bluetooth mice. The neat thing about the Bluetooth mice, especially if you’ve got a laptop with built-in Bluetooth, is that you don’t need to hook in some sort of dongle to connect the mouse to the laptop.
Targus offers two mice, the Bluetooth Laser Mouse, shown in Figure Q, and the Bluetooth Media Mouse.
.FIGPAIR Q Nice, small mice that work nicely on the road.
The [[http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=AMB03US|Laser Mouse]] is small, but fits nicely even in my big hands. Because it’s a laser mouse, it’s got a very high precision tracking that can switch between 800 and 1,600 dpi on the fly. At $69.99, it’s a pretty reasonable price for a laser mouse.
The $49.99 [[http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=AMB02US|Media Mouse]] is a bit weirder. It’s a mouse and a media control. When it’s in media mode, the mouse enables you to launch your media player and operate the play, pause, track and volume controls using the mouse. Kind of a specialized application, but when you remember that Bluetooth works at something like a 30-foot distance, it becomes interesting for those who might need to make presentations.
The only downside to the Targus mice is that you’ve got to charge them using a small USB cable. The fact that they’re rechargeable is nice, but having to lug a spare USB cable to charge the thing could be a bit annoying. Even so, we’ve enjoyed using these mice and so will you.
.H1 Unexpected gift ideas
DominoPower contributing editor Nancy Hand had some curious suggestions for our gift guide.
.QUOTE The Ojo Videophone, even at $400 US, is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy because they’d use it to call me. I still shudder when remembering the Jetsons episode where Jane couldn’t find her phone mask and had to appear on-phone in her bath robe. The possibilites for embarrassment seem endless.
These [[http://www.ojophone.com/|pseudo-VOIP things]], shown in Figure R, are not cheap. Frankly, you could get an Xbox 360 and a camera for about the same price and get a LOT more use out of the Xbox.
.FIGPAIR R Do you have a face for video phones?
Nancy continues with her "sort-of" recommendation for the [[http://www.planon.com/docupen_rc800.php|DocuPen RC800]], shown in Figure S.
.FIGPAIR S Scare the crap out of your company’s security department with this baby.
Nancy says:
.QUOTE I’m more ambivalent about the DocuPen RC800 at $300 US from Planon System Solutions. While it sounds nice to be able to scan a document a line at a time, it could take hours to do a document of any length. AND think of the complaints you’d get from your Security department! Nothing will be safe, not even the yellow stickies stuck to your monitor with all your passwords. As an aside, the Planon Web site includes the animated figure of a "tech support" person which follows your mouse across the page. While it’s a nice trick, I find it a little unnerving.
DominoPower senior technical editor Mick Moignard has a cool suggestion for those who love model railroading:
.QUOTE I have another indulgence, and that’s my DCC controlled model railroad. In one sentence, DCC is a digital control system which puts intelligence, called a decoder, inside the locomotives to control them, and being intelligent, the decoder can do such things as lights and sound, as well as just running the engine.
.QUOTE The state of the art in DCC sound decoders is Soundtraxx’s Tsunami decoder; 16-bit sound, huge memory, full back-emf motor control which is linked to sound to adjust effects and volumes as to how hard the loco is working, and lots more. Such animals are in the Moderate class of gadget prices, but of course just one is not nearly enough. By the way, for any other modellers among you — even though I’m British, I model US Colorado narrow gauge in HOn3.
Figure T shows a [[http://www.soundtraxx.com|Tsunami]] with a quarter-dollar to give some scale. Each controller is about $120.
.FIGPAIR T The Tsunamis are tiny, but make a big noise.
Senior technical editor Jason Perlow has a more fashionable suggestion:
.QUOTE A custom tailored Cuban Guayabera shirt from the legendary Ramon Puig in Miami, made of hotel quality linen. This is the Guayabera of U.S. presidents and movie stars. The original "cool" tropical shirt. I walked into this place yesterday and Rachel dragged me out, kicking and screaming.
I’m about three hours from Miami. I may just have to head down to [[http://3guysfrommiami.com/guayabera.html|Ramon Puig]] and get me one of these shirts, shown in Figure U!
.FIGPAIR U This is some guy, in a shirt.
Benjamin Meyer helps us flash back to a simpler time, when Optimus Prime was dedicated to protecting all life. He tells us that Hasbro recently made a updated version of the 1980s [[http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10065&mode=retail|Optimus Prime toy]], calling it the Masterpiece Optimus Prime. The new toy was a big hit for those who collected Transformers and those who simply remember the toys and had to pick it up. The U.S. version, shown in Figure V, retails for about $90 the one in Japan, which came with long smoke stacks, is about $120 imported.
.FIGPAIR V Optimus Prime is the Big Kahuna of Transformers.
Benjamin, apparently, is a very serious Tranformers fan. He told us about a golden Optimus Prime he’d managed to track down:
.QUOTE Now in Japan there was a contest where they gave away 10 of these toys plated in gold. I recently was able to track down a winner and, after negotiation, was able to buy it from him. The gold version of this toy sells between $3,000 and $6,000. So to sum up, the new Optimus Prime toy kicks ass and would make a great gift by itself, but way more cooler is the Gold version.
Benjamin also sent us a pile of useful links, including one to a [[http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_051704b.htm|review of the toy]] and a [[http://www.goldoptimusprime.com|link to a Web site about his golden Optimus]].
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.H1 Denise waxes poetic about gift certificates
Finally, we continue Denise’ theme about gift certificates:
.QUOTE Once again, I recommend the Amazon Gift Certificate. Any person who knows how to pop open a browser window, type in a URL, and do a simple search can choose from all kinds of stuff. The sky’s the limit. New pots and pans. A coat. CDs, DVDs, books. Wouldn’t you rather they have something they really want, anyway?
.QUOTE Noticing a trend here? Back when I was a kid and I didn’t know what to buy someone, my mom would suggest I get something that I would enjoy or something that they probably wouldn’t buy for themselves. Really, my mom’s approach to gift giving probably provides a deep insight into why I ended up with so many polyresin knick-knacks — Teddy bears, unicorns, smiling bunnies holding candy canes — and so many nightgowns, and ugly pocketbooks.
.QUOTE A person could spend years in therapy working through his or her resentment around why Mother was buying gifts for the child she wished she had, instead of the one she actually had. But we love our moms, and for some reason I still feel compelled to follow (and even pass along) the bad advice my mom gave me on choosing gifts. See, I enjoy getting Amazon Gift Certificates. And that’s why I recommend giving them!
I so understand. My mom used to tell me she was cold, so I had to bundle up.
Moms… They’re full of love and we do love them so.
And, on that homage to family values, it’s time to wrap up this amazingly long article. Frankly, we probably have another fifty suggestions, but we’re just about out of figure letters. Stay tuned in January for more interesting ideas for gifts, gadgets, and fun. And — of course — next week, we’ve got some incredibly cheap and even some incredibly tacky gifts for you to give.
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.H1 Product availability and resources
To read "Super-expensive gifts for the rich and excessive", visit http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200612/00001894001.html.
To read "Expensive (but worth it) gifts for the truly worthy", visit
http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200612/00001897001.html.
For more information on the Internet Press Guild, visit http://www.netpress.org.
For more information on the Nintendo Wii, visit http://www.nintendo.com/channel/wii.
For more information on the Xbox 360, visit http://www.xbox.com.
For more information on the PlayStation Portable, visit http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/About.
For more information on Sony’s rootkit fiasco, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal.
For more information on the Treo 700p, visit http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo700p.
For more information on the Palm Treo 680, visit http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo680.
For more information on the BlackBerry 8703e, visit [[http://www.discoverblackberry.com/devices/device-detail.jsp?navId=H0,C63,P204|http:\//www.discoverblackberry.com]].
For more information on the Verizon BlackBerry, visit [[http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=2546|http:\//www.verizon.com]].
For more information on the Treo 700wx (from Sprint) or the Treo 700w (from Verizon), visit http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo700w.
For our review of the Sprint PPC-6700, visit http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200603/00001742001.html.
For our review of the Verizon XV6700, visit http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200603/00001731001.html.
For more information on the UTStarcom SLICE from Virgin Mobile, visit [[http://www.virginmobileusa.com/phones/phoneDetail.do?skuId=VM1400|http:\//www.virginmobileusa.com]].
For more information on the Palm TX, visit http://www.palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tx.
For more information on the Palm Tungsten E2, visit http://www.palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tungsten-e2.
For more information on the Portable Pioneer Inno, visit [[http://shop.xmradio.com/detail.aspx?pid=476&cat=36|http:\//shop.xmradio.com]].
For more information on the iPod Shuffle, visit http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle.
For more information on the Apple iTV, visit [[http://practical-tech.com/entertainment/apples-itv-may-be-just-what-we-need/|http:\//practical-tech.com]].
For more information on the Slingbox, visit http://www.slingmedia.com.
For more information on the Canon SD900 Elph, visit [[http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=14220|http:\//www.usa.canon.com]].
For more information on the Cordless Stylus, visit [[http://www.dremel.com/en-us/tools/tool-detail.htm?H=188091&G=66204&I=69808|http:\//www.dremel.com]].
For more information on the 400 Series XPR, visit [[http://www.dremel.com/en-us/tools/tool-detail.htm?H=188091&G=66981&I=69673|http:\//www.dremel.com]].
For more information on the 220-01 Workstation, visit [[http://www.dremel.com/en-us/attachments-and-accessories/attachment-accessory-detail.htm?H=188575&G=69679&I=69727|http:\//www.dremel.com]].
For more information on the Targus Laser Mouse, visit [[http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=AMB03US|http:\//www.targus.com]].
For more information on the Targus Media Mouse, visit [[http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=AMB02US|http:\//www.targus.com]].
For more information on the Ojo Videophone, visit http://www.ojophone.com.
For more information on the DocuPen RC800, visit http://www.planon.com/docupen_rc800.php.
For more information on the Soundtraxx Tsunami, visit http://www.soundtraxx.com.
For more information on the Ramon Puig’s Cuban Guayabera, visit http://3guysfrommiami.com/guayabera.html.
For more information on the Optimus Prime toy, visit [[http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10065&mode=retail|http:\\//www.bigbadtoystore.com]].
For a review of the toy, visit http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_051704b.htm.
For more information on Benjamin’s golden Optimus, visit http://www.goldoptimusprime.com.
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