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NORTH WING: PERIPHERAL GALLERY
Visitors frequently return to the Peripheral Gallery, where everything from exotic
laser mice to Baroque cooling configurations can be found on display
Gaming Mouse
Logitech G
Our Best Mouse pick is so buff,
it lifts weights!
One adjustable, 2000dpi, laser-
powered sensor. Two different
size weights. Three different
sensitivity settings. Four per-
fectly placed buttons. One
un-freakin’-believable mouse.
The G5 isn’t the best mouse
we tested this year. It’s the
best mouse we’ve tested ever.
Sometimes gamers need light-
ning-quick reflexes. Sometimes
they need pixel-perfect preci-
sion. With its on-the-fly sensitiv-
ity adjustments, the G5 can be
every mouse for everyone. Its
adjustable weight system even
lets you tweak the heft of the
rodent, go weightless for an
effortless glide, or load up all
eight slots for a wrist workout.
$60, http://www.logitech.com
Received a 9/KickAss in the
Holiday 2005 issueWildcard
Sonos Digital Music System
Innovation usually warms our cockles, which
explains why this streaming-audio system left us
with hot-flashesOur lives changed the instant we took the
Sonos Digital Music System’s decadent remote
control in hand. As we queued up our first track
with its iPod-style scroll wheel, gazed slack-
jawed at the album-cover art displayed on its
luscious 3.5-inch color LCD, pressed Play and
heard the mellifluous tones emanating from
speakers in two separate rooms, it dawned on
us that no run-of-the-mill streaming box could
ever take us to the same unearthly heights.
$1,200 for two ZonePlayers plus one Sonos
Controller, http://www.sonos.com
Received a 9/Kick Ass in the April 2005 issueCooling
Zalman Resorator 1 Plus
An editor at a lesser mag told us it was
“too hardcore.” That’s why we love itBy definition, water-cooling is a supremely
hardcore technology that few have the
cojones to dabble in, and that’s doubly
true of fanless water-cooling. That’s why
we love the completely fanless
Resorator 1 Plus—it’s not
only audaciously hard-
core, but it’s drop-dead
sexy and able to cool both
an FX-55 CPU and a pair
of GeForce 7800 GTX
GPUs in total silence. Its
2.5L reservoir doubles as
a cooling tower. That is the
very definition of Kick Ass.
$230, http://www.zalmanusa.com
Received a 9/Kick Ass in the
Holiday 2005 issue