The Virtual Keyboard

What you should know: 
Advanced optics track your fingers like magic
Connect via Bluetooth® wireless technology
Easily pair the laser projection keyboard with your smartphone, laptop or tablet
Compact, keychain design makes our virtual keyboard super portable
Rechargeable li-ion battery (USB cord included)

What it offers: 
Comes with a USB cord for easy recharging. Lasts for up to two hours of continuous typing. The advantage: 
Because it is Bluetooth enabled, the laser projection keyboard pairs quickly and easily with tablets, smartphones and most laptops. The unfavorable: 
The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Brookstone is under license.The price:

Replacement Plan - 1 Year$9.99
Replacement Plan - 2 Year$14.99

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The Samsung HMX-QF20

What you should know: 
One of the advantages to going with a camcorder like the QF20 is its size. It's lightweight and comfortable to shoot with and small enough to stash in large coat pocket or small bag. As far as controls go, the QF20 is a lot like Samsung's shoot-and-share waterproof HMX-W300minicamcorder.
Many camcorders have a battery that juts out the back, which in turn puts the controls on top. The battery and SD card slot for the QF20 are in an internal compartment in the bottom. That frees up the back for a record button and zoom control to the left and right of it. 

One advantage that the QF20 has over some of its competitors (and smartphones for that matter) is that it does have optical image stabilization. It does make a difference, so if you're trying to pick between this Samsung and another model that just has electronic image stabilization, go with the QF20.

What it offers: 
Good video for Web sharing and a 20x zoom lens, the Samsung HMX-QF20 gets the job done.
The advantage: 

Samsung HMX-QF20 is a small, lightweight, shoot-and-share camcorder with a 20x optical zoom and built-in Wi-Fi for backups and direct uploads to YouTube, Facebook, and Picasa.
The unfavorable: 
QF20's video isn't really HD-quality and it's only good for viewing at small sizes. HD recordings cannot be uploaded wirelessly and Wi-Fi back up is Windows only.
The price:
$ 209 to 299.00





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The Google Nexus 7

What you should know: 
Several months after its debut, the Nexus 7 is still an excellent tablet. The 8GB version is gone and the tablet now starts at $199 for 16GB. Paying $249 nets you the 32GB version, and the 32GB version with HSPA+ is available for $299.
Aside from its new SIM card slot and slightly heavier weight, the Nexus 7 with HSPA+ is identical in look and feel to the original Wi-Fi-only version.

Tablet settings can now be accessed much more quickly. Simply swipe down from the top-right corner to reveal a tray of shortcuts, including brightness, Wi-Fi settings, general settings, battery life, airplane mode, and so on.
Magnification attempts to take advantage of the screen's 1,280x800-pixel resolution. After enabling in settings, if you tap the screen three times in quick succession, assets on the screen will magnify in the section where you tapped.

What it offers: 
Its excellent design, useful software features, and low starting price, the Nexus 7 is the cheapest way to experience the best that the Android OS has to offer.
The advantage: 
Nexus 7 features a sharp screen, a comfortable design, and great battery life at a low starting price. Android 4.2 adds some welcome and useful features.
The unfavorable: 
Android still needs more tablet-optimized apps, newer games have frame rate issues, and HSPA+ speeds seem particularly location-dependent.
The price:
$199 to 250.00







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The Maingear Nomad 17

What you should know: 
The Maingear Nomad 17 starts at $1,579, but our tricked-out configuration came in at $2,099, and included an Intel Core i7-3740QM CPU and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M GPU. By way of comparison, a nearly identically configured Origin Eon17-S laptop comes out to just about the same price (with one year of warranty coverage for each).
This is not a sexy laptop. Despite the glossy red lid and the brushed-metal accents, it screams mid-'00s.
One bright spot is that the Nomad 17's top lid comes with your choice of colors, all done in automotive paint the company says uses "the exact same materials found on supercars around the world from Ferrari, Porsche, and others," at no extra charge.

Price: $2,099 / $1,579

Processor: 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-3820QM

Memory: 8GB, 1,600MHz DDR3

Hard drive: 750GB 7,200rpm

Chipset: Intel HM77GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 680M / Intel HD4000

Operating system: Windows 8

Dimensions: (WD)11.4x16.9 inchesHeight2.1 inches

Screen size: (diagonal)17.3 inches

System weight / Weight with AC adapter: 8.4 pounds / 10.7 pounds

Category: Desktop replacement

What it offers: 
A hefty investment if nicely configured, the Maingear Nomad 17 delivers for serious gaming, although the look may not be for everyone.The keys are deep and widely spaced, making them good for PC gaming, where many games rely on not only the WASD keys for control, but also the spacebar and left Shift and Ctrl buttons. The large touch pad is a decent size for a desktop-replacement laptop, but it is an older-style pad, with separate left and right mouse buttons, rather than the buttonless clickpad design seen in so many current laptops.

The advantage: 
The Maingear Nomad 17 offers fast performance and deep configuration options, and Maingear has a great rep for support.
The unfavorable: 
A $2,000 laptop really needs a better keyboard and touch pad, and a less generic body.



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The House of Marley's Smile Jamaica

What you should know.. 
The fact that these headphones are around $30. The headphones use sapele, which is a sustainable African wood used also in the manufacture of guitars. The headphone is capped by an aluminum piece (red in the case of the Rasta version), which holds the driver and ear bud in place

What it offers.. 
Like many celebrity-endorsed headphones, the House of Marley Smile Jamaica has a bass-heavy response, but an excellent price and build elevate it above its peers.

The benefits. 
The headphones feature a microphone/single-button remote on the left earphone, and making calls and starting/stopping tracks was a breeze. Unlike the Stir It Up headphones, the cable is quite micro phonic transmitting noise into your eardrums when moving against your face or clothing.

The advantage: 
The House of Marley Smile Jamaica headphones feature amazing build quality for a very small price. The bass response is full without becoming "one note" or bloated. The features are well-thought-out with a one-button mic remote, which works for iOS and Android and a fabric wrapped cord.

The unfavorable: 
The bass can unduly dominate rock music or pop music. Other headphones have greater sparkle or detail. The cable can be micro phonic.

The price:
$22.49




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The Toshiba Satellite U845W-S430

What you should know.. 
The Toshiba Satellite U845W, an ultra-wide-screen ultrabook boasted a funky 21:9 aspect ratio, 1,792x768-pixel display crammed into a long, slim laptop. The U845W-S430 is that very same laptop, for the most part, with Windows 8 added.

What it offers.. 
Toshiba's experimental extra-wide-screen ultrabook gets a Windows 8 software upgrade, but it turns the Toshiba Satellite U845W into a computer imperfectly matched for what Windows 8 has to offer.
Toshiba offers a split-screen utility for auto-snapping apps to fill part of the screen, but the uses for this service are limited. I preferred stretching out windows myself to fit the content.

The benefits. 
The 14-inch 1,792x768-pixel display amounts to a lot more pixel resolution than your average laptop, arranged in a very odd, super-stretched way. It's a clever idea in some ways: you could watch a movie with no letterboxing, theoretically, or even look at full Web pages and documents side-by-side with relative ease.

The advantage: 
The wide-screen Toshiba Satellite U845W-S430 has an extra-long, higher-resolution screen, Harman Kardon speakers that pack a punch, and an attractive, compact design with plenty of ports.

The unfavorable: 
The keyboard and touch pad are uncomfortable, the wide screen isn't a perfect marriage with Windows 8, and the screen doesn't always play nicely with all streaming video content.



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