Lara Croft Premium Format Figure is a must for every true Tomb Raider and especially Lara fan… Lara Croft is a fictional British video game character and the heroine of the Tomb Raider series of video games, movies, and comic books. In the two movies so far, she is portrayed by the actress Angelina Jolie. Heroine of the action-adventure Tomb Raider video game series, Lara Croft hunts for ancient artifacts in perilous locations ranging from abandoned castles to jungle temples. Trying to keep these priceless relics out of the wrong hands, the gun-wielding beauty must fight to be the first to raid each tomb. Released June 2007, the 10th anniversary edition of the video game, Tomb Raider: Legend features Lara traveling the globe once again, this time fighting dinosaurs, in search of one of the world’s most desirable artifacts. Lara Croft is a celebrated character in the video game world, boasting 10 successful years of raiding and plundering.

After the death of her mother, Lara Croft is raised and educated by her archaeologist father, Britain’s … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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The Kill-A-Watt power meter is a very useful device that allows you to check what is the power usage and how efficient is any electrical device that you have at home or in the office, for instance your computer. The meter has a large LCD display that is used to show consumption by the Kilowatt-hour (kWh), just like the utility company does it. You can also figure out what your electrical expenses will be by the hour, day, week, month, even an entire year ahead based on the results you get measured by the device. The P3 Kill-A-Watt Power Meter allows you to monitor the quality of the electricity you get by displaying Voltage, Line Frequency and Power Factor (what you need to check the efficiency). You switch the mode by pressing the corresponding button for each function, depending on what information you want to see. Just have in mind that disconnecting the device from the power line will reset the collected information regarding the usage time and consumed kWh so far, so be careful when … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Western Digital did it again with the next generation Raptor hard disk drives - the VelociRaptor, 10,000 rpm, 2.5-inch, 300 GB SATA Hard Drive that are actually about 35 percent faster and twice the capacity of the previous performance king - the 150 GB Raptor X drive.

The new WD VelociRaptor hard drives are designed specifically for PC and Mac computer enthusiasts and for use in professional workstations. The WD VelociRaptor hard drives are built with enterprise-class mechanics and pack 300 GB of storage capacity into a 2.5-inch enterprise form factor. The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drives are enclosed in the IcePack, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink - a customization that fits the drive into a standard 3.5-inch system bay and keeps this powerful drive extra cool when installed in a high-performance desktop chassis.

VelociRaptor Features
- Killer Speed - Built on the performance of the WD Raptor, these 10,000 RPM drives, with SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and 16 MB cache deliver mind-bending performance.
- Rock-solid Reliability - WD VelociRaptor drives are … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Myka is a new internet video player with built-in BitTorrent client for direct downloading of the multimedia files on the device. Video and audio files are downloaded from the internet on to Myka’s internal hard drive and after that these files can be played back directly to a television. Myka is controlled by a handy remote control or can be programmed remotely trough the web. This cool device has all the features you need in order to connect it directly to your new or old TV and yes there is even HDMI output as well as all the needed analog and digital sound output for your audio system. You get the option to use Ethernet cable connection to the internet or wireless network if you already have such in your home, eliminating the need to put any more network cables around.

BitTorrent is the leading peer-to-peer file-transfer protocol with more than 160 million installed clients. That means the more popular a large video file, the faster it can be … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Now that is something that is usually hard to find and a bit expensive, but it might be very handy at times. If you have an old laptop that uses the older PCMCIA (CardBus) standard for extension cards you might be out of luck if you have to insert a new ExpressCard device for some reason. At such time this small Filco ExpressCard to USB adapter can be very useful, although it may not be very convenient to be used while traveling and using the mobile computer. The good news is that you can also use an ExpressCard device designed for your laptop on your desktop PC with the help of this adapter…

The adapter is compatible with both the smaller ExpressCard/34 standard and the bigger ExpressCard/54 devices so you don’t have to worry your device wont be compatible and of course you’ll still have to install drivers for the device in order for it to function correctly.

The ExpressCard to USB Adapter will cost you $39.09.

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