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• ThinkGeek Annoy-o-tron

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  $10
  Our friends at ThinkGeek.com definitely have an evil streak in them — the Annoy-o-tron is a small electronic doohickey that’s designed to annoy people by emitting irritating beeps at irregular intervals so that it’s incredibly distracting but also incredibly hard to locate. It’s pretty easy to hide, and comes with a magnet for sticking to a metallic surface. The downside is that if your victim ever finds it — they’re probably going to smash it, and you’ll be out $10. Comes with three different annoying sounds.

  Shiny
  - drive co-workers crazy
  - easy to hide
  - irregular beeps – hard to locate
  Dull
  - if they find it, they’ll break it
  - may annoy YOU too

  Annoy-o-tron
  ThinkGeek.com

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• Ultra X3 1000 watt power supply

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  $300
  Power, power, power — everything inside a computer these days uses up power, especially the new turbocharged video cards and the multiple spinning hard drives and the heavy-duty CPU and….well, everything inside uses power. For those that never seem to have enough power to go around, Ultra Products has the 1000-watt Ultra X3. Unlike the power supplies of olde, this one ditches the rats’ nest of cables sprouting out the back, and replaces it with a bunch of sockets…and you only attach the power connectors you really need, which keeps the inside of your case relatively tidy too. The downside? Plugging the cable at both ends introduces more connectors that could potentially get loose…and you do have to assemble the power supply to fit your needs rather than just grabbing any free power connector on the back of the PSU.

  Shiny
  – lots of power available
  – flexible cables
  – 15 different rails
  – lifetime warranty
  Dull
  – assembly required
  – pricy
  – more potential loose connections

  Ultra X3
  Ultra Products