Apple is on a roll today with a brand new LED Cinema Display to tempt your wallets even in these harsh economic times. This stunning 24″ LED backlit widescreen display comes with an integrated iSight video camera, microphone and speakers - and Apple engineers and designers managed to cram all of the above into an elegant, thin aluminum and glass enclosure. Nice to see Apple continue to place product design a class above the rest, even if that means the ordinary consumer has to fork out much more money. Targeting the newly released MacBook family, this Apple LED Cinema Display comes with a built-in MagSafe charger, three USB 2.0 ports and the new Mini DisplayPort that makes it a snap for MacBook users to hook up in an instant, powering not only their notebooks but favorite peripherals as well.

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Rumors of the new Apple MacBook line are all true, and somehow or rather, the “wow” effect of seeing Steve Jobs unveil new products is no longer there since Apple failed to keep a tight lid on its upcoming devices in recent years. That doesn’t mean the new MacBook line are duds, but the initial shock attempt just isn’t there any more. I digress, and will move on to these new Apple notebooks that are constructed from a single block of aluminum with great new features despite seeing a much cheaper entry level price compared to similar class models of the previous generation.

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The evil little kitty has wormed her way onto yet another gadget, she seems to be slowly achieving her goal of world domination.  She does kind of resemble the Brain of Pinky and the Brain.  I’m really not seeing that as a coincidence.  Beneath her giant skull lies a brain ready to take over the world.  Although, her latest project won’t make it to the whole world, it will actually only be in Japan.  NEC, Sanrio and French fashion designer Courreges have all teamed up to create a girls-only laptop.

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Just like handbags and shoes are to a fashionista, you can never have enough USB ports for a geek. After all, aren’t tons of devices these days maintain connectivity to your computer via USB? Hence the ever increasing need for more USB ports on a computer, but sometimes design constraints and technical limitations do not help if you want to hook up to a dozen USB devices simultaneously. Good thing USB ports can be daisy chained using USB hubs, and IOGEAR is stepping up to meet this need with their new 3-port USB 2.0 hub.

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Fancy having a LEGO brick clone as a USB flash drive? Well, gadget mavens Brando have piled it on, this time with the HOMADE brick flash drive that are availabe in a variety of colors and in two capacities - 2GB and 4GB. You will be able to choose from yellow, red, blue, green and black for the 2GB range, although the 4GB model will have an added white color. Supports Windows ReadyBoost for that added spark in your computer’s performance, the HOMADE brick flash drive will retail for $30 and $42 for the 2GB and 4GB models, respectively.

It’s always nice to have a USB gaming controller that you’re comfortable with and enjoy using.  There are a few out there, one being the metal game pad shown here a couple months ago.  However, what if you could have a gaming controller that you were already overly familiar with?  I think for most gamers that would trump any extra perks other USB controllers claim to have.  Well now you can pick up an NES controller that has been modded to work with USB.

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Gaming mice are dime a dozen these days, but that doesn’t mean companies should just stop innovating and come out with new models to tantalize our senses and tempt us to part with our hard earned money, right? SteelSeries shares this sentiment, and over the past few months their engineers have been huddled up in some top secret underground laboratory in order to come up with the new World of Warcraft MMO mouse. Yes, you read that right - a mouse named after one of the most popular MMORPGs on the earth ever. Strange how at the height of Quake’s popularity, you never really come across stuff like a Quake FPS mouse or a StarCraft RTS mouse, but this time we have an MMORPG mouse?! More on this electronic rodent after the jump.

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eMachines is back with the new EL1200 desktop series PCs that have been shrunk down to the size of 1/3 of a standard PC. Despite the shrinkage, computing power is not compromised as this is a case of not judging a book by its cover. Without missing out on decent performance figures, the EL1200 desktop series PCs are small enough to fit into cramped apartments without breaking the bank - an essential point in these times of economic uncertainty. After all, with prices starting from under $300 (depending on configuration), the EL1200 is certainly very tempting if you’re looking to upgrade that Pentium III of yours this upcoming holiday season.

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