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Quirky)
Here at Crave, we love things that serve more than one purpose. From a laptop case that doubles as a notebook stand to a mouse that's also a wireless presenter, we just go gaga over little stuff like that. Which is why the Quirky Scratch-n-Scroll caught our eye.
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Quirky)
On the surface it looks like just another plastic mouse pad. But write on the surface with a stylus or even your fingertips and you'll be able to scribble quick notes to yourself.
It works by using little black magnetized particles under the surface that adhere to the transparent top layer when pressure is applied. To erase, lift the top layer and you can start with a clean slate.
The unique mouse pad is available for preorder at its online store for $9.49, excluding shipping. After this period, the price will revert to $14.99. However, there is no guarantee that this product will actually hit production lines as the company requires 225 orders before it will manufacture the mouse pad.
In the event the peripheral is canceled due to lack of interest, fret not, as your credit card will not be charged unless the unit loses its vaporware status.
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Meninos/CNET)
Real-world versions of Web sites can be pretty nifty, and the Twitter and Facebook mouse pads from the Meninos studio are no exception. Both feature a large, fill-in status box, just like you'd find on each of the sites, although in each case the wording has been changed to reference the use of your mouse. I especially like the details on the Twitter one that includes things like the speech bubble nub on the top of the pad, and the faux advertising box with instructions to "just point and have fun."
These pretties set you back $11.99 each, or $17.99 for both--plus a whopping $12 on shipping to the U.S..
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Formula 1)
Continuing today's theme of ridiculous luxury items is, of all things, a high-performance mouse pad. In what could easily be a parody, BornRich says the English-made "Formula 1 Mouse Mat" was designed with "state-of-the-art automotive 3D modeling software." The carbon-fiber pad has inlaid leather with Italian suede backing and, of course, a prominently embossed "F1" logo. The price for a racetrack-grade mouse pad? It lists for 260 pounds, or about $525. But it comes wrapped in F1 tissue paper, so it's not overpriced or anything.
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Hammacher Schlemmer)
If you're going to start messing around with combo gadgetry, at least be creative. That's the lesson that should be learned from Hammacher Schlemmer's "Finger Drum Mousepad." Rather than some useless combination like a mouse pad with built-in speakers, this electronic drumming surface lets you strum your fingers to eight percussive sounds, "including bass, snare, two rack toms, a floor tom, hi-hat, crash and ride cymbals." You can even record up to 30 of your creations so you can play back the most annoying ones for all to hear, over and over.
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Coolicam)
We feel as though you've gotten to know us pretty well here at Crave, so we'll let you in on a dirty little secret: We never learned Photoshop. Yes, it's true. But we've stumbled across something that may help us mess around with images in a way that even our tiny Luddite brain can handle.
Coolicam's "iCam Art Pad," Gearlog says, "turns your digital photos into art"--though, in our case, that may be a loose interpretation. Even if you're no Rembrandt, the Art Pad's clever design may well be worth the $32 investment. Once connected to the USB port in your computer, the photos appear on the pad, where you can edit them, tweak colors and even fix red-eye using an accompanying mouse and stylus with the provided software.
Once we "adjust" our mugshot to look like George Clooney, we'll even send you a copy.
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Gearfuse)
When we made our many pleas for wireless entertainment systems, this isn't exactly what we had in mind. In fact, we have to agree with Gearfuse in its assessment of this wireless speaker mouse pad as utterly useless--or, as the aforementioned blog put it gently, "You really don't want crappy speakers at your fingertips." We won't even get into the solar-powered calculator. The broader point here, ladies and gentlemen, is that there should be a limit to the number of functions a device is allowed to have. For its own good, if nothing else.
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