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Review: Wish List: 51 to 60

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McIntosh MXA60 Stereo For $7,500 you could buy a used car. Or you could pick up the Lamborghini of shelf stereos, the MXA60 — a compact music mover with serious audio horsepower. Its processor compares input and output waveforms to detect distortion. It'll even dial back the volume so you don't blow the speakers. And its tube preamp warms up digital music. Why drive when you could stay home and listen to this? $7,500 • mcintoshlabs.com LaCie iamaKey USB Drive Transferring files, moving bookmarks, absconding with corporate data — USB flash drives rule. Unfortunately, the same attributes that make them convenient (size and portability) also make them easy to lose. LaCie's iamaKey lets you permanently affix 16 GB of mobile storage directly to your keychain. Now, if only you could find that ... $55 • LaCie.com HTC Hero Phone Android's future is so bright, this phone should come with Ray-Bans. Beyond respectable hardware (3.5-mm headphone jack, 3.2-inch touchscreen, 5.0-megapixel cam), the Hero version of Android is logical, fun to use, and flashy. Literally: It supports Flash. Plus, you can create separate profiles with apps for play (Twitter) and "work" (Twitter). $180 (two-year contract) • htc.com Logitech Portable Lapdesk N315 Given the number of BTUs radiating out of a modern notebook, your lap is about the last place you want to use it. What you need is something to insulate your — ahem — sensitive areas. Logitech's 11-mm-thin Lapdesk does that and more: A slide-out pad even lets you break out the mouse. The couch just got upgraded to home office. $30 • logitech.com Gaudí Stool Inspired by Antoni Gaudí's still unfinished La Sagrada Família church, designer Bram Geenen mimicked its famous shapes in this stunning stool. But the design is so intricate that only a 3-D printer can take it from CAD to couchside. At least, only a 3-D printer can do it quickly enough to have you seated before La Sagrada gets out of beta. $5,700 • yankodesign.com Photo: Zachary Zavislak Casa Bugatti Vera Electric Kettle So you don't have a couple million dollars to drop on a Bugatti Veyron. That doesn't mean you can't show some automotive flash in the kitchen. The Vera electric kettle by Casa Bugatti sports an LED display on the handle, along with controls to set timers and dial in precise temperatures. It'll even let you know when your water hits the desired level of hotness — no need to watch this pot. Not quite as much fun as driving 253 miles an hour, but a lot easier on your insurance. $300 • casabugatti.it Photo: Zachary Zavislak Shure SRH440 Headphones Hell is populated with telemarketers and brewers of bad beer. But heaven, as they say, is a place on earth — specifically, between the soft vinyl earpads of these affordable headphones. Shure has pulled off a tricky balancing act with the SRH440s, faithfully replicating sound while still adding its own personality: a warm overtone that softens bass and smooths treble. But the best feature may be the price tag. Audio gear of this quality for a C-note is nothing short of a miracle. $100 • shure.com Nerf Maverick Gun The pump shotgun is too bulky for meetings, and the derringer single-shot won't save you in an ambush. That's why the most popular soft-shooter in the Wired Nerf wars is the Maverick, a six-round revolver that fires with serious thwack yet is easily concealed under a pile of papers. We like you because you're dangerous, Maverick. $15 • nerf.com SuperHeadz Plamodel Camera This point-and-shoot is pure punk rock: cheap, low-tech, and gloriously DIY. Snap together its plastic innards — shipped model-airplane-style on printed sheets — then shoot rich, gritty pictures through the 28-mm wide-angle lens. There's no flash, so you don't need batteries. Or a memory card. The Plamodel uses that retro stuff — what's it called? Film? $28 • superheadz.com Sony Ericsson Satio Phone The Satio packs everything you'd expect from a high-buck cell phone: 3.5-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS — even FM radio. But it also has features more at home in a top-shelf pocket cam: a 12.1-megapixel image sensor, Xenon flash, face detection, and a touch-to-focus interface that should salvage those late-night bar snaps. $TBD • sony.com « Wish List: 41 to 50Wish List: 61 to 70 »