By Caitlyn Muncy

If you’re looking for an affordable pair of headphones with great quality, look no further.

Wicked Audio Reverb Headphones has amazing audio quality for a low price, and can handle a good amount of sound without being so loud as to bother Joe schmoe sitting next to you. Surprisingly, this quality doesn’t come at a terribly high price, as it only sets you back about 20 bucks, and comes with a lifetime guarantee.

These headphones are covered in street style graffiti and come in red, blue, and white color schemes. Inside the box, you’ll find an initial four-foot cord on the headphones, and an additional six feet of extension with a fourth-inch audio adapter. With a frequency ranging from twenty to twenty thousand hertz and thirty-two ohm impedance.

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By Andrew Liszewski

If you’ve got a penchant for vinyl ‘toys’ you’ll immediately recognize these Be@rbrick figures which are now doing double duty (besides making your cubicle/shelf/desk more hip) as large-scale iPhone/iPod docks. There’s not much to report on tech-wise, besides a set of volume control buttons, but because it’s a cute mashup of a teddy bear and a Kubrick figure, you might be dismayed to hear you’ll be dropping ~$183 (¥14,800) if you want one. That is of course if you can beat the vinyl toy collectors to it.

[ Hypebeast - MEDICOM TOY BEARBRICK Speaker System ] VIA [ ALBOTAS ]

By Andrew Liszewski

Are you staring down a nasty divorce and looking to unload some assets before your soon-to-be ex claims it all? Well I’m not sure if it’s the wisest way to blow $25,000, but it’s definitely pretty quick. And you won’t have to worry about your arm aching if you have to carry it around all day!

But at just under 8lbs fully loaded, I’m inclined to believe it’s not actually the lightest backgammon game ever created though. Where it saves on weight with a gratuitous use of carbon fiber, it packs on the pounds with gold covered stainless steel play stones. I guess you can’t have your overly opulent cake and eat it too. The game is available in a limited edition run of 99 sets, but don’t worry if it’s going to take a couple of days to get your 3rd mortgage approved, something tells me these aren’t going to be snapped up overnight.

[ Carbon Fiber Backgammon Game ] VIA [ Born Rich ]

By David Ponce

Without getting into a Mac v. PC debate, I’d just like to note that Apple’s all-in-one, the iMac, is very overpriced. I mean, when you can get an all-in-one PC these days for $799 (after a $400 rebate), it makes you think twice about paying upwards of $1,500 for a comparably equipped machine. Some might say you get double the machine, but that’s another argument for another day. Today, we’re looking at HP’s 200 Quad (200q), a 21.5 inch all-in-one with a free upgrade to 6GB of ram, a free upgrade to 1TB hdd, a Core i5-760 2.8GHz Quad-core CPU and 512MB NVIDIA GeForce G210 graphics card. And until the end of the day, get $400 off it.

[ $400 Off On HP 200 Quad All-In-One PC ] VIA [ LogicBuy ]

By Andrew Liszewski

Imagine decorating your Christmas tree without having to worry about running wires in a sea of thousands and thousands of prickly pine needles. Seems like a promise that’s too good to be true, and in this case I’m pretty sure it is. These wireless ornaments look like a clever enough idea since you just have to clip them to the end of a branch and adjust the height on the suspension cord as needed. And an included wireless remote lets you collectively turn them on or off from the other side of the room.

But the system kind of falls apart when you consider that you’d have to decorate your entire tree with these wireless ornaments in order for them to be of any benefit. If you still need to string up wired lights in addition, then what’s the point? And not only will a set of 4 cost you about $79 (£48.95) which would end up being incredibly expensive to properly decorate an entire tree, but every single ornament needs its own AA battery. With 150 hours of battery life you could probably squeak through a single holiday season without having to swap them out, but I’m pretty sure this is an idea that’s still waiting for the proper technology before it’s actually practical.

[ Wireless LED Christmas Tree Baubles ]

By Andrew Liszewski

In addition to their indispensable graphics tablets, Wacom also applies their technology to more mundane solutions like their new line of eSignature tablets designed for checkouts, banks or anywhere an electronic signature is required. Three different models were recently announced including the top-of-the-line STU-520 which includes an 800×480 color LCD display which can be used for additional point-of-sale marketing and the STU-500 & STU-300 which feature basic monochrome displays designed to just get the job done.

And besides just capturing a signature, Wacom’s pen technology can also record and store additional information like pen speed and pressure which helps generate a unique biometric profile for the user making it particularly difficult for others to forge their John Hancock. It’s just too bad that their clever wireless pen technology is rendered moot in such an application since the stylus will inevitably end up tethered to the tablet.

[ Wacom's eSignature Line ] VIA [ Electronista ]

By Andrew Liszewski

Even though it’s roughly the same size as one of the MiFi mobile internet hotspots, the tizi is actually designed to tune in, decode and then stream local live digital television broadcasts to your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone over wifi. Powered by an ARM 9 RISC-Processor and weighing in at just 2.5 ounces the tizi does require you to connect your idevice to its private wireless network in order to watch the stream, so unless you’ve got 3G on board as well, you won’t have internet access while watching your shows.

On a single charge the tizi will run for about 3 1/2 hours, but it charges from a mini USB cable so presumably you can keep it perpetually powered from a laptop, PC or even USB-equipped power adapter if you intend to use it for longer periods at home. Now I know most TV shows are readily available online in one form or another, but sometimes just plunking down and seeing what’s on live TV is a nice way to kill some time, and it doesn’t cost you any bandwidth usage, or require any kind of annoying re-encoding. At around $240 (£149.95) the tizi isn’t super cheap unfortunately, but at least the accompanying application is available as a free download. And it also looks like it’s only available in the UK and other parts of Europe, not North America, which is another kick in the knickers.

[ tizi Mobile TV Hotspot ] VIA [ Wired Gadget Lab ]

By Chris Scott Barr

When was the last time that you changed the battery in a calculator? There’s a good chance that unless you have a really fancy one, you don’t ever change the batteries on your calculator. They use so little power that a simple solar panel suffices. When Logitech released their MK700 keyboard last August, I was surprised to see that it would last up to 3 years on a single pair of batteries (the one I reviewed is still running strong on that first set) and wondered if they couldn’t somehow recharge the batteries using solar power. Apparently they can.

The company announced their latest peripheral, the Wireless Solar Keyboard K750, which, as you might have guessed, is solar powered. The keyboard features two sets of solar panels which will gather energy whenever there is light. On a full charge it can last up to three months in complete darkness. You’ll be able to download an app that tells you how much light the device is getting, and how long the battery is estimated to last. I’m not quite sure that I’d be ready to spend $80 on a first-gen solar keyboard, but I do love the idea of not having to change out batteries.

[ Logitech ] VIA [ Gearlog ]

By David Ponce

From the world of laptops we move away slightly to the world that can make laptops slightly more useful by expanding their capacity. See: that was a clever segway into today’s deal! Well, not that clever… Anyway, today we have a 1TB Seagate hard drive. Usually it’s $129. After today’s $40 coupon, it’s $89. What can I say about the drive? Well, it’s USB 2.0, spins at 5,400 RPM and, like I just mentioned… holds 1 Terabyte of data.

[ $40 Off Seagate 1TB Portable HDD ] VIA [ LogicBuy ]