Don’t get us wrong, there are plenty of girls who
have Half-Life 2 and Halo on the top of their favorite video
game’s list. However many woman aren’t so keen on first person shooters,
heavy duty strategy games, and the like. Here is a list of our favorite
video games for anyone out there who needs to buy some last minute gifts
for their favorite lady who isn’t necessarily a hard-core fraggin gamer.
- New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo DS Lite). We’ll never grow tired of Mario saving the princess. This game has been on the best seller list for months for good reason – it’s the best Mario game we’ve seen in a long time. By the way, has anyone noticed that the world’s most famous plumber has never been seen actually fixing a pipe?
- Big Brain Academy
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Too many laptops run warmer than a hot potato. So set your laptop up on some Cool Feet raise your laptop, which leaves room for heat to escape. Also, cool feet makes your laptop angeled, thus creating a more ergonomic experience. Cool feet suction cups can be easily popped off and they retail for $12.95 for a set of four.

Squirting calculators and whoopee cushions are for wimps. Prankster geeks who want to have a little fun (at someone else’s expense) should try the Shocking Computer Mouse on for size. The mouse looks like a stereotypical mouse with a scroll wheel, power cord and left and right mouse buttons. Shocking computer mouse – $6.99. The look on their face when they try out their new mouse – priceless. (Source: PC Magazine, December 26, 2006)

Oregon’s Scientific HRM Heart Rate Monitor Watch might get your heart pounding a little because it’s pink. (Sorry, we couldn’t resist). The SE200 is the first heart rate monitor watch designed for women. It includes a clock with an alarm, a month/day/date display, a stopwatch function, and it’s water resistant up to 50 meters. Oregon Scientific’s Pink HRM Heart Rate Monitor Watch retails for Monitor SE200 £29.95. Oh, and those of you in the U.S. shouldn’t get your heart set on it (we’re so bad), because it’s only available in the U.K.

Imagine having eight boys in the palm of your hand. This little electronic game helps you to practice your relationship skills. You have to try and keep your man happy by complementing him, buying him gifts, taking him out to places…. wait a sec, shouldn’t he be doing that for you? Anyway, the more points you collect, the longer the "relationship" will last. Virtual Boyfriends and Virtual Girlfriends retail for £13.49 (about $26.50 USD). And if this one forgets my birthday, he is going straight out in to the trash.

Angus Noble is a designer who has designed everything from racing yachts to cameras. One of his latest creations is the Indium flashlight. The Indium kind of looks like it might be a mini version of a hub cap, but it’s actually a very powerful flashlight that is controlled via a touch sensitive switch that uses the natural conductivity of the skin to switch the light between full, power, half power and strobe mode. The flash light is also rechargeable and is made of no moving parts, making it a very reliable device, unlike most flash lights which require a change of batteries or light bulb. The indium weighs just 50 grams and is available in several colors including silver, blue and purple.The Indium flashlight retails for £32.95 (about $64.70 USD) and it comes with a USB cable for charging.

Walmart is selling a 7" Durabrand Portable DVD Player for a very affordable $89.63. But it’s not just the price that we’re excited about – it’s the Hot Pink or Red color that it comes in. This portable DVD Player also plays CDs, CD-R/RWs, MP3 CDs, it has composite video and S-Video output, it weighs 3 pounds, and it also comes with a matching wireless remote.
MacStyles and MacPads are custom made high-gloss vinyl decals for most Mac laptops. These decals are a great way to add flavor to your Macbook while
protecting it from scratches, which the MacBook is very prone to. There are also Mini Caps & Wraps available for the Mac Mini and PodStyles for iPods. You can customize your MacStyle with a choice of over 20 colors and 100 different "voices" which include all kinds of icons and shapes ranging from bunnies to a record player. Macstyles retail for $19.95, Mini Caps retail for $7.95 and PodStyles retail for $5.95. They even have PodStyles for the iPod Shuffle that retail for $3.95 for a 3 pack. 

Shalgo’s ipod cases aren’t made out of stereotypical neoprene materials or leather, they’re made out of ductape. At least it’s colorful ductape. They have a selection of ipod cases for the ipod with video, the Nano, 4G ipods and the ipod mini, all in many different color combinations. Each case also has a clear plastic screen to protect you ipod’s display. The Boomhaus case for the ipod with video retails for $16 and the Nanoboom case for the ipod Nano retails for $8.

We’ve seen a few companies offer customizable stickers/covers for your laptop, but LapLooks takes the idea of customizable covers for your laptop a step further. LapLooks is made up of a clear plastic cover which you can easily insert an 8"x10" paper in to. You design and print your own insert at home, using your own printer and thus you can to easily change your Laptop’s cover whenever you want. LapLooks is marketing their product to companies as an advertising method, but it can be used just as well for consumers as a way to spice up their lappy. (Source: Laptop Magazine, January 2007)

Winter has just started, the days are getting colder and shorter and we’re getting moodier. The Outside in Light Visor promises to help us fight Seasonal Affective Disorder by wearing it for 30 minutes a day as it shines its day-light-like rays at us. Hey, if it’s good enough for astronauts to use, then who are we to question it. The Deluxe Visor retails for £244.00 and needs to be worn for 15 to 30 minutes. The cheaper Solarmac Visor needs to be worn for 45 to 75 minutes and retails for £160.00. (Source: T3 magazine, Chrismas 06)
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