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Portable Shaver by Muji
  • AESTHETIC 3
  • FUNCTION 4
  • VALUE 3

Have furry stuff on your face? Does it make you itchy? Well that’s called stubble and it needs to be destroyed. With the Portable Shaver by Muji you can now rid yourself of that cumbersome facial plague you call a mustache…on the go! Super compact and discreet, this sleek tool is perfect for those of us who forget our faces have hair follicles.

Metal Gear Solid GelaSkins
  • AESTHETIC 3
  • FUNCTION 2
  • VALUE 3

Metal Gear Solid plus anything, to me, is a must buy. MGS undies? Gotta get ‘em. Solid Snake sippy cups? I have dignity to spare. So, yeah, these Metal Gear Solid GelaSkins are nothing short of awesome. Fitted for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the MGS GelaSkins are available in a staggering 28 designs including characters, logos, and Yoji Shinkawa sketches.

Flip MinoHD Chrome
  • AESTHETIC 5
  • FUNCTION 4
  • VALUE 4

Shiny things are scientifically proven to be, as professionals describe it, crazy awesome. So it’s only natural that the MinoHD Chrome is nothing short of crazy awesome…and then some! Weighing only 3.3 ounces and housing 4GB of internal memory, this shiny little piece of hardware is capable of holding 60 minutes of stunning HD-quality video and making people say, “Dude, is that a special edition Flipthing!?” Never fails. Promise.

ChocoShuffle
  • AESTHETIC 4
  • FUNCTION 4
  • VALUE 4

First off: this is deliciously genius. Not only does it wittingly embrace the latest iPod Shuffle’s design, it boggles everybody’s collective minds!  The ChocoShuffle is the accessory that outdoes any other option for the Shuffle and manages to be useful, cheap & endearing. Available in strawberry, vanilla, and milk chocolate.

Razer Mamba Wireless Gaming Mouse
  • AESTHETIC 5
  • FUNCTION 5
  • VALUE 2

Tired of using the mouse that came with that refurbished Dell your parents gave you? Completely unaffected by the current state of the economy? If so, then perfect, you’ll love the Razer Mamba Wireless Gaming Mouse! Outfitted with gaming-grade wireless technology and claiming to be the fastest performing mouse available, this is the mouse to trump all other mice. It includes a sleek charging dock that matches the same attention to design that the mouse itself boasts, all while being ergonomically fit and packing in 14 hours of battery life with continuous play. Couple all of that with onboard memory and a seamless wireless-to-wired mode and you’ve got yourself the single greatest mouse on the market. Needles to say, it’ll make any .xls spreadsheet more exciting than they usually are.

AIAIAI Earphones
  • AESTHETIC 5
  • FUNCTION 4
  • VALUE 2

AIAIAI, the Denmark collective behind this headphone/headset series, may be onto something. This collection is a perfect marriage of performance with aesthetic that isn’t seen too often on our side of the globe.  From the color options to the shaping, AIAIAI’s entire series reflects one fantastic design decision after another. Hopefully, they’ll get to the point of distributing future series at a more reasonable price, if they plan on appealing to wider audiences.

Nintendo DSi
  • AESTHETIC 5
  • FUNCTION 5
  • VALUE 4

Larger screens, better audio quality, and a thinner design are only some of the features that the new Nintendo DSi boast. With two cameras (one inside, one outside), an SD card slot, and the ability to download exclusive games as well as browse the internet, accidently breaking your weighty DS Lite shouldn’t be too hard to pull off. Available in both matte black and matte blue.

My Passport for Mac
  • AESTHETIC 4
  • FUNCTION 5
  • VALUE 4

Weighing in at 500 GB, Western Digital’s Mac-formatted, portable hard drives are stylish little peripherals for the Apple elitist in all of us. Taking a cue from the unibody Macbook, the tastefully designed My Passport features a compact, USB-powered hard drive with Apple Time Machine syncing capabilities. Couple these excellent specs with the reliability of Western Digital and you have yourself a must-have hard drive. Also available as a 320 GB model for $130.

SoundClip
  • AESTHETIC 3
  • FUNCTION 3
  • VALUE 3

Gimmicky or not, the SoundClip is a smart little invention. Described as a “passive sound enhancer for iPhone 3G,” it’s basically a plastic bar that clips into the iPhone’s dock connector to direct sound towards you. Ten One Design, the creators of this add-on, do a superb job of explaining the science behind SoundClip on their website, which includes audio examples and detailed technical data. Of course, it shouldn’t take much convincing to realize that this addition is a bit more effective than cupping your iPhone’s speaker for that surround sound experience we all pine for.

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