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ProDrive Racing Simulator

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A new concept in racing simulators, designed not only to offer a first-class simulator experience, but also to be a striking piece of home furniture.

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The sculpted carbon monocoque housing the driver’s seat, the screen, steering wheel, and pedal box appear to float beneath a striking canopy of 16 layers of birch are encased in an elegant lacquered gloss black finish. Not only is this beautiful to look at from the outside but wraps over the driver to give such an immersive experience that it feels like being in the cockpit of a race car.

LaCie Porsche Design USB Key

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Possibly the most affordable Porsche Design of all, the German automotive juggernaut’s latest industrial design collaboration is also the smallest and handiest. Jointly produced with French computer hardware company LaCie, this USB key is a sleek, scratch-resistant brushed steel piece made for seamless professionalism at the office. The tiny USB key offers up to 32GB of storage and USB 3.0 compatibility with transfer speeds up to 95MB per second. Onboard data is password-locked and protected with AES 256-bit encryption, and packaged with one free year of Wuala Secure cloud storage. The 16GB and 32GB versions cost $29.99 and $49.99 USD respectively, and each ships with a two-year limited warranty

Porsche Design USB Key

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Porsche Design and LaCie releases the smallest addition to their sleek storage range with a new USB Key. Housed in steel and ultra slim at 4mm, the key comes in 16 or 32GB options and brings together good design and performance with a suite of LaCie software to secure your data and USB 3.0 for fast file transfers.

HP Chromebook 11

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The new HP Chromebook 11 is laptop minimalism at its finest. HP wrangled together a durable magnesium chassis, an 11.6" screen with a wide viewing angle, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, 16GBs of SSD storage, and 6 hours of battery life inside a lightweight, 2.3lb laptop. It even charges via Micro USB so you won't have to worry about a huge power brick and its one less charger to worry about if you've already got an Android in your pocket.

HP Chromebook 11

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The HP Chromebook 11 ($279) is small-but-mighty laptop weighs in at just over two pounds, has an 11.6-inch screen, and features 2GB of DDR3 RAM and a 16GB Solid State Drive. Powered by Google's Chrome OS, it comes standard with a host of Google Apps to help get things done (with a number of other apps available in their store), as well as 100GB of cloud-based storage free for two years. It comes in a rugged plastic shell with a range of available color schemes sporting plenty of I/O ports to keep you connected to your devices, as well as WiFi, Bluetooth, and Verizon LTE so you can always access your network.

Ubuntu Edge

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Think of the Ubuntu Edge ($830) as a proving ground for next-generation mobile technology — most of the things you see here will likely make their way onto big-name handsets. The biggest of those technologies is convergence: hardware and software that seamlessly transitions between desktop and mobile. All you need to do to use it as a desktop PC is plug it into a display using HDMI, and pair it with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. This is possible thanks to a fast multi-core CPU, 4 gigs of RAM, and a 128 gig flash drive. Other impressive features include the ability to dual-boot between Android and Ubuntu OS, a 4.5-inch sapphire crystal display, stereo speakers, and two LTE antennae.

Razer Blade Pro

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Razer's Blade Pro combines an ultimate gaming rig and a creative workstation in a slim piece of hardware that boasts a 17.3" LED-backed screen and the latest and greatest PC tech. Weighing in at 6.5 lbs, the Blade Pro comes packed with the latest Intel Core processor technology, 8GBs of 1600MHz DDR3L RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M graphics with 2GBs of RAM and a Intel HD4600, a 128GB SSD, and their Switchblade User Interface which features 10 dedicated "adaptive" keys and a LCD track pad which is compatible with Photoshop, Premiere, Maya, and more.

Topo Designs Laptop and Tablet Sleeves

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Raise your hand if you wished your laptop sleeve had a handle. Yep, that's quite a few of you. Topo's new Laptop and Tablet sleeves keep it simple with the bare, but functional minimum: A durable and padded Cordura shell for protecting your laptop, a toggle and loop to secure it, and a carry handle that makes it easy to pull out of your bag. $34-$38, Topo Designs

GIGS.2.GO Tear and Share USB Flash Drives

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The GIGS.2.GO pack is designed by Bolt Group. The neat and super handy credit card-sized gadget is made of recycled paper pulp and contains four tear-off tabs with a USB flash drive in each. It is easy to share files and hand out the sticks to clients or friends. You can also write on them to note down what files are saved. Even though the drives are designed to last for many uses, the paper and electronic components can eventually be separated and recycled.

BOLTgroup – GIGS.2.GO Tear-and-Share USB Drives

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Over the years flash drives have become smaller and more portable, but this set of four 1GB drives packaged in a business card-sized configuration is among the most inventive designs we’ve seen yet. Developed by Kurt Rampton and the BOLTgroup, the gadget goes by the name GIGS.2.GO and is constructed with 100% post-consumer molded paper pulp with zero plastic. Best of all, each individual drive can be torn off 1 gigabyte at a time for easy tear and share use. And since it’s made of paper, labeling is as easy as grabbing a pen and writing directly onto the surface of each tab.