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 Earl of Abbington. At eighteen, Lara’s father dies, leaving her the Countess of Abbington and an avid archaeologist. Carrying on her father’s discipline, Lara begins traveling the world in search of highly coveted ancient artifacts. The agile adventuress searches perilous locations ranging from abandoned castles to jungle temples while fighting all manner of enemies. Her agility and strength give her the skill to collect well-hidden priceless artifacts while the grace of her society upbringing places her in high regard with many devoted admirers.

The Premium Format Lara Croft figure captures every curve of the sexiest archaeologist to ever grace your screen. Lara is outfitted as she appears in Legend, the entire costume captured in expertly tailored fabrics. The figure is cast in heavy-weight polystone and hand-painted to exacting standards, and is complete with a rubble and ruin environmental display base. Each figure is individually hand-numbered, and packed in a durable foam interior and beautiful color box.

The Lara Croft Premium Format Figure 1/4 Scale will cost you $249.99.

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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 using the Kill-A-Watt.

The power meter does a great job if you are a PC enthusiast that constantly upgrades his computer, because the device helps a lot in terms of calculating your power consumption and efficiency of the new hardware being installed, compared to the older one… especially when we are talking about video cards and processors. But the usage is not limited in any way only to computers, you can measure the power usage of any electrical device that uses a standard power plug like your TV, microwave, refrigerator, console and just about anything else you can think of…

The only drawback of the P3 Kill-A-Watt Power Meter is that the device has been designed for 110V only, so you can’t use it in Europe for instance and will have to find a similar power meter device that is made for use with 220V. The max current the device can handle is 15A with a maximum power of 1875 VA, so be very careful not to overload it, because you’ll damage the meter!

You’ll have to pay just $24.99 for the Kill-A-Watt device.

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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 designed and manufactured to business-critical, enterprise-class standards to provide enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. The design results in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.
- IcePack Mounting Frame - The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drives are enclosed in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis.
- Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) - Optimizes performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.
- SecurePark - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface, resulting in improved long-term reliability and increased drive protection when the chassis is moved.

WD VelociRaptor will be shipping exclusively through Alienware this month and will be available elsewhere in mid-May. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price is $299.99 USD.

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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 transferred with BitTorrent. The result is quick, easy-to-use, high-quality, video downloads from major studios and other content providers without tying up you computer for hours. And you don’t need to do any work to figure out how to get the file to actually play on your TV. With a wide range of file formats supported, you don’t need to think about it at all. Just plug it in and enjoy. Myka comes with an internal hard drive with a choice of an 80-gigabyte, 160-gigabyte and a 500-gigabyte model. That translates into hours of continuous, high-definition video content. And yes, Myka supports HD video playback, although only up to 720p or 1080i.

Myka Key Features
- WiFi enabled - 802.11g
- Direct Ethernet connector for direct connection
- HDMI, Composite, S-Video and SPDIF ports for maximum flexibility
- Internal hard drive choice of 80, 160 or 500 gigabytes
- BitTorrent peer to peer software built in
- USB port for expansion

Supported Video Playback
- MPEG-2 MP@ML (ISO/IEC13818), up to 10Mb/s
- H.264/AVC MP HP up to L4.1
- VC1 AP@L3, Simple and Main Profile
- WMV 9 Simple and Main Profile
- DivX 3.11,4.11 and 5.x support
- MPEG-4 part 2 SP/ASP
- Aspect Ratio:4:3 and 16:9,auto format detection
- Out Definition:480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p or 1080i

Supported Audio Playback
- Decoding Formats: MPEG (Layer1,2), MP3, AAC, WMA
- Volume Control: 32-level adjustable, mute
- Output Modes: Mono/Stereo/Dolby Digital

You can pre-order Myka in 3 different models for $299 (80GB), $349 (160GB) or $459 (500GB).

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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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This a bit strange looking Japanese MP3 player may not win a design award, but that is beside the point, because it has a different idea behind it. This time the guys from Thanko turned up with a MP3 player that can be recharged with hand cranking if you don’t have a PC with a free USB or a power adapter nearby. The player has 1GB built in memory and supports playback of MP3 and WMA music files with 32 to 250 kbps bitrate and as an additional feature you get a built-in flashlight.

In just about a minute cranking the built in hand crank you’ll get up to ten minutes of music playback from the device and by a bit more (or maybe a lot) you’ll be able to recharge the battery to maximum, but don’t expect too much, because the capacity of the rechargeable battery isn’t too high. Anyway this music player utilizes a good eco-friendly idea and if it gets a bit optimized and enhanced it will become even better, especially if it becomes cheaper…

The price of the MP3/WMA player is a bit high at $62.54.

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If you still fancy a good old retro alarm clock you’ll like this cool product by Thanko Japan. This gadget looks just like a real retro alarm clock, but it has MP3 support and a USB plug that allows you to customize its alarm sound. You just need to connect the USB cable to your PC and upload a short MP3 music file to the clock that you want to be played back when it is time for the alarm to sound. The software is pretty simple and easy, and the only downside is that there is no snooze button, but that’s now such a big problem anyway. That is because you have to flip a switch on the back of the clock in order to stop the alarm and in order to do this you’ll have to be pretty much awake, but the best part that you’ll wake you to the sound you choose. The MP3 clock is also a great gift idea for everyone.

Specifications
- Compatible with Windows 2000/XP
- Power source: USB bus power
- Compatible Sound Source: WAV/MP3 (up to 50 seconds)
- Power Source: 3 x AAA batteries (up to 1 year use)
- Dimensions: 130 x 190 x 70 mm

You can now order the retro MP3 clock for just $29.55.

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If you are a big Star Wars fan and are interested in DIY (Do it yourself) stuff you must not miss this cool product. The Star Wars DIY Force FX Lightsaber Kit is a must for every true Jedi, because it gives you the opportunity to build your own lightsaver the way you want it (or almost that way).

The kit consists of one main saber unit with a tri-color blade (flip a switch and choose red, green, or blue - each with corresponding and different sound effects) and a slew of parts that let you assemble the saber you’ve always dreamed of. All the parts are based on actual screen-seen components, so your saber will look just like an awesome mashup of the real thing from the Star Wars movies. And the coolest part is, you don’t have to choose between being a Jedi or a Sith, because all you have to do to start walking on the light or the dark side is to flip a switch on the lightsaber and that is all it takes. Anyway don’t just fall in the hands of the dark side so easily…

DIY Kit Features
- Glowing blades ignites with realistic power-up/down effects (not as bright as other Force FX blades, but still awesome)!
- Authentic sound effects digitally recorded from the movie.
- Features four motion sensor controlled sound effects, Power-up, idle hum, clash, and power-down
- Sturdy blade is permanently attached to the hilt
- Tri-Color Blade (switch between: red, green, and blue)
- Over 1,000 possible assembly combinations

The Star Wars DIY Force FX Lightsaber Kit is available for $99.99

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What would you say for some cool sunglasses with a built-in 1.3 megapixel camera in them, that is hidden. Ok, maybe not excatly hidden, but the normal person wouldn’t think you’ve got a camera in your sunglasses (unless he’s seen these). The camera on one of the sides in the glasses is capable of capturing still images with a resolution of 1280×1024 pixels. The sunglasses also come with a handy RF remote-control that is needed to tell the camera when to take a picture, so it won’t be on all the time…

These cool glasses come with high-quality and lightweight frame material and with UV400 polarized flip-up lens. The built-in polymer li-ion rechargeable battery provides you with a battery life of up to 9 hours if you are shooting 1 picture every minute. When you are done with the covert photo taking you can transfer the images to the PC with the help of the USB 2.0 interface trough a standard mini USB port (also used for recharging). As an additional feature the sunglasses also allow you to enjoy your favorite MP3 songs with the help of flexible earbuds, that you can easily remove off your ears when aren’t needed.

1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses are priced at $99.99

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