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You are the technical elite. Not for you the vulgar holiday scramble to snag a $500 laptop. No, you demand the best. Which is why Dell is going to let you shell out at least $4,450 for a new line of World of Warcraft-themed notebooks. The XPS M1730 World of Warcraft edition has the same specs as the regular XPS M1730 -- Extreme Edition Core 2 Duo processors, DX10 SLI graphics, Ageia mobile PhysX processor, illuminated keyboard, built-in camera -- plus a bushel of WoW visual tweaks and extras, including books and a chit for a custom in-game pet. Special Dell customers can buy one now; the rest of you have to wait until Dec. 11. Offered in "Horde" or "Alliance" flavors to match the game's factions, buyers get the extras in a WoW backpack, including the game itself with the Burning Crusade expansion pack, strategy guides, a "making of" DVD and the audio soundtrack. Players will also get a "quest envelope" stuffed with a secret surpris View the full article

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A baby Jesus statue in Bal Harbour, Florida, is getting a GPS device for Christmas. The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device in case of theft. The previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down. View the full article

Near-vaporware keyboards, gaming towers, little laptops, terrific tablets and a hacked iProduct are the gadget champs of 2007! We see a lot of new gadgets every year, and 2007 was no exception. But every mountain has a summit, so we humbly present, from the bottom to the top, this year's heap: View the full article

A couple of UC Riverside physicists stabilize antimatter for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds, and the result is an ultrapowerful laser. </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article