Buying a computer is definitely not an impulse purchase, and when it comes to the issue of notebooks, you definitely have a fairly large amount of selections to choose from. HP has bought the Voodoo PC outfit last year, and you can finally see the results of their acquisition which ought to be released sometime later this year in the form of the HP Pavilion HDX gaming and entertainment notebook. You can definitely tell that the Pavilion HDX is a true blue gaming machine from first glance since no sane business-class notebook will come with a 20″ display in the first place.

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If you’re a huge buff of solar powered items, then the Soltronix Headphone Radio is just the thing for you. You don’t need to leave it basking under the sun for an entire day before being able to enjoy listening in to your favorite radio stations at night – no siree, the Soltronix Headphone Radio comes with its own solar film technology that is embedded across the top of the headphone and charges the internal Ni-MH AAA battery which is located within one of the ear pieces. With summer coming up really soon, the Soltronix Headphone Radio will definitely be a great outdoor device to tote around.

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Clocks are everyday devices that we rely on to keep our lives going at a predictable pace. 6am often signals the wake up time for many as they get ready to meet the grueling challenges of the day ahead (unless it’s a weekend, of course). This means having an alarm clock of some sort in your bedroom is vital, but why settle for something that looks so ordinary when you can settle for the Car Wheel Alarm Clock? The name itself is pretty much self-explanatory – this alarm clock comes in the shape of a car wheel and, well, boasts an alarm to get your lazy ass out of bed in the mornings.

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Some of Dell’s more reasonably-priced computers are about to become even cheaper. PC beginners will enjoy an easier entry in the computing world and will be treated much friendlier. Why that? Well, due to popular request, Dell have decided to offer a free software suite and a very friendly distribution of Linux for some of their desktop PCs and laptops. They have finally chosen Ubuntu, as it’s one of the friendliest distributions.

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This takes me back some, fuzzy felt, the re-usable picture drawing thingy-ma-jig, is now available in greeting card format.

So instead of sending a plain old static card you can send a fuzzy felt version and let the (older) recipient relive their youth and move bits around, class!

Fuzzy felt greeting cards cost £2.99 (~$6) from the fuzzy felt greeting card shop, surprisingly.

If you’re fed up with misplacing your remote try this out for size the BIG button remote control.

The big button is a universal remote control that measures a stupidly large foot in length, ideal for giants or people with exceedingly fat thumbs. The remote is available from Red 5 for £20 (~$40).

Our latest contest was to guess how many different screen resolutions have been used to view this site over the past 7 days and I am delighted to say it proved a bit more difficult than our previous guess the image competition.

We had entries ranging from 2 (hmmm) right up to 122 and to be honest I don’t think anybody deserved to win
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Goldfish can be pretty boring pets so to make them a tiny bit more interesting you can now get fish bowls shaped like Jigsaw pieces.

The bowls hang on the wall and are meant to look like moving pieces of art, though I’ll let you be the judge of that.

Two hanging puzzle fish bowls cost $34.99 from Target.