10 Cool Gifts: Gadgets, Accessories, and Oddities
10. A Hotel Room Organizer
When I stay in a hotel room, I usually place things I want to remember to take with me--wallet, mobile phone, keys, whatever--as close to the door as possible. The Unforgettable Doorganizer is an even better way of remembering your stuff ($17 at Magellans.com ). You hang the Doorganizer on your hotel room (or any) doorknob, stick stuff you want to remember in its slots, and voila, you're organized. Yes, it's corny. And it comes in red only--but it will get your attention, and that's what you need it to do.
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Great Laptops and Netbooks for Under $1000: Looking for something a little more special? Check out our gallery of laptops and netbooks. Among them: Asustek's N10Jc Netbook, which costs $650 but offers excellent battery life and a discrete graphics chip (which is pretty much unheard of in netbooks).
Top Tech Stocking Stuffers: Need other inexpensive gift ideas? How about a tape measure that displays and stores measurements digitally? Or the Callpod Chargepod ($40), a wheel-like charger for multiple devices. You'll find more about these and other stocking stuffers in our gift gallery.
Bamboo Laptop: Asustek recently debuted a laptop with a bamboo casing. It's designed to appeal to environmentally conscious consumers, as well as anyone who wants a laptop with a distinctive look. The laptop, part of the U6V series, will sell in Asia for about $1802 and is expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe in the near future.
Contributing Editor James A. Martin offers tools, tips, and product recommendations to help you make the most of computing on the go. Martin is also author of the Traveler 2.0 blog. Sign up to have the Mobile Computing Newsletter e-mailed to you each week.
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