- 1. HP x2301 LED Monitor
- 2. Olympus E-PM1 Micro Four-Thirds Camera
- 3. 23 & Me Personal Genome Service
- 4. HP Envy 110 e-All-In-One Printer
- 5. Brookstone iPad-Controlled Rover Spy Tank
- 6. Doxie Go Scanner
- 7. Dyson DC41 Vacuum, AM02 Air Multiplier, AM04 Heater
- 8. ThinkVision LT1421 USB Monitor
- 9. Dell U2412M Monitor
- 10. Logitech Harmony 650 Remote
- 11. Zoom Q3HD Handy Video Recorder
- 12. Patriot PBO Alpine Media Player
- 13. Western Digital MyBook Live External Hard Drive
- 14. Asus Black Diamond Series RT-N53 Router
- 15. LaCie Porsche Design P’9920 500GB Mobile Hard Drive
- 16. VueZone Personal Video Network
- 17. Western Digital WD TV Live
- 18. FitDesk
- 19. Verbatim USB 2.0 and Patriot Memory USB 3.0 Flash Drives
1. HP x2301 LED Monitor
Attractively designed tech-goodies for the living room and the home office (or just about any other place in the house).
HP x2301 LED Monitor
This is the most attractive, highest-quality LED monitor under $200 that we've seen. It’s rare when we can make such a statement so definitively, but the x2301 stands out for those reasons.
Starting at the bottom, its footprint is tiny for a 23-inch screen: the stand is 10 inches by 5.5 inches. But it is also pretty, solid silver covered in a bluish-green glassy tint. The black bezel around the screen itself is less than an inch thick, leaving lots of room for screen real estate, and the bottom portion is silver to match the base. The screen itself is only 0.39 inches thick. That may not be the thinnest LED panel in the world, but it is among them, and cheaper than the other skinnies on the store shelf. The screen tilts forward and back a bit, to ergonomically adjust to your whims.
The monitor’s resolution is 1920x1080, and naturally you’ll want to use HDMI connectivity when you can (though there’s also ports for VGA and DVI). The ports are housed in the back of the base, thankfully, instead of in the hard-to-reach rear of the panel, which instead is as smooth as an….unassuming piece of plastic (with a big HP logo of course).
If you’ve used an LED monitor before, you know that the brightness, contrast and color vividness are typically much better than a standard flat-screen. That remains that case, even in what should, based on HP’s pricing, be a budget panel. We wouldn’t use this screen for professional photo or video or graphics work, but it’s perfect for the living room or standard home office.
- 1. HP x2301 LED Monitor
- 2. Olympus E-PM1 Micro Four-Thirds Camera
- 3. 23 & Me Personal Genome Service
- 4. HP Envy 110 e-All-In-One Printer
- 5. Brookstone iPad-Controlled Rover Spy Tank
- 6. Doxie Go Scanner
- 7. Dyson DC41 Vacuum, AM02 Air Multiplier, AM04 Heater
- 8. ThinkVision LT1421 USB Monitor
- 9. Dell U2412M Monitor
- 10. Logitech Harmony 650 Remote
- 11. Zoom Q3HD Handy Video Recorder
- 12. Patriot PBO Alpine Media Player
- 13. Western Digital MyBook Live External Hard Drive
- 14. Asus Black Diamond Series RT-N53 Router
- 15. LaCie Porsche Design P’9920 500GB Mobile Hard Drive
- 16. VueZone Personal Video Network
- 17. Western Digital WD TV Live
- 18. FitDesk
- 19. Verbatim USB 2.0 and Patriot Memory USB 3.0 Flash Drives
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Nice gear, well presented, but I still think Rachel & Jane should have modeled the goods
Very nice........... ehm... products.
Huh, the pics had products on them? I was just looking at the girls... I am so lonely
Great models this year. The gadgets are pretty damn good too.
Hmm.. what's her name?
Dysons are decent vacuums but they don't hold a candle to Kirbys.
http://www.greatvacs.com/education [...] eview.html
The Kirby is more durable, generates more suction even on a nearly full bag, has a larger diameter hose, a much longer average lifespan (25 years), is less likely to clog and is made in the USA.
My Diamond Edition still runs and looks like it is brand new and gets used once a week. It is six years old.
Also those Dyson bladeless fans are false advertising. They are just hidden in the base and channel air. Instead of a large quiet blade it instead has to use a high RPM (noisy) fan to push the air through the small exhaust vents.
This is a horrible gift idea. With the small vents I would imagine they would get clogged often as well. Just think of what builds up on a normal fan blade or in your computer case in a thin vent.
As for noise. Think of computer case cooling. Would you want a 120mm CPU cooler at 2,000RPM or a 60mm CPU cooler at 10,000RPM.
Mmm...daddy like....
Oh, and, uh, the products are ok too.
I really want the Dell IPS monitor. Unless I could get my hands on a 27" version! oooooooooooo :B
She can hold my remote anytime, it'd be xxx mas for me 365 days then
Do the shake 'n' Vac, and put the freshness back. Cor blimey girls, ya sure did that. Ya don't need anything to warm up ya room looking at these fine gifts you bear
you see more pictures of the girls in the holiday gift guide for computer builders