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• The Obsessable Ten: Best netbook accessories

  We bring you the ten best small scale accessories for your treasured netbook.

  

  Computing | by Amy-Mae Elliott | Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:05PM | 1 comment

  

  Netbooks have taken the portable computing world by storm in the last twelve months with everyone from students to professionals enjoying the ultra-portable form factor as a cheap and easy way to get online whilst out and about. Here we bring you the best accessories for your netbook that will enhance your experience.

  Essential netbook accessories

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• The Obsessable Ten: The world's worst cell phone designs

  With the ongoing MWC bringing us the best of the cell phone market, we take a look back at the fugliest, and most impractical, phones ever launched.

  

  Mobile | by Amy-Mae Elliott | Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:50PM | 9 comments

  

  For every N95 there's also a 7380. Although the majority of cell phones launched are variations on a theme, every now and then a manufacturer will let its design department's collective imagination run wild and chuck out an oddball option, with fashion efforts and designer team-ups most often to blame for such mobile monstrosities. We look at ten such phones that will make your eyes — and brains — boggle. 

  Fugliest phones

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• The Obsessable Ten: Valentine's tech-themed gifts for lovers

  It's not too late to pick up one of these low-cost geeky gifts for your object d'amour.

  

  Mobile, Imaging | by Amy-Mae Elliott | Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:15AM | 4 comments

  

  Years ago in Ancient Rome some Christian martyr called Valentine had his feast day on February 14. Fast forward a couple of thousand years and now every 2/14 you have to sit in an over-priced restaurant staring into your partner's eyes over stale breadsticks trying desperately to look more in love than the other happy couples at the tables beside you. Forget all that chocolates and flowers nonsense, we've brought you the top ten tech ways to put the fun back into V-Day.
  
  
  

  1. I love you toast stamper

  Get your Valentine's Day off to the right start with this plastic stamp kitchen gadget that imprints "I 'heart' you" on to your breakfast bread. Cute and kitsch in equal measures, what could possibly be more romantic than a slice of wholemeal declaring your undying devotion?
  
  $3.99, PerpetualKid.com
   

   

   

  More geek gifts

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