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Review: Wish List: 21 to 30

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Staff Pick Suzuki V-Strom DL-650 ABS Dual Sport Motorcycle It's 40 pounds lighter than its 1,000-cc big brother and uses the same bulletproof V-twin engine as Suzuki's storied SV650. I'd ride this all-terrain bike anywhere, and that's what dual-sport motorcycling is all about. Any chance it will fit under the tree?
— Ryan Meith | Production Manager $7,500 • Suzuki.com Archos 5 Internet Tablet Could 2010 be the year of the tablet? If so, the Archos 5 is already the one to beat. Equipped with a juiced-up ARM processor and running Android, it's just a centimeter thick and boasts everything from Wi-Fi and 3.5G wireless to GPS. Throw in a growing fleet of apps and the ability to crank out 720p video and you have a potent portable. $249 and up • archos.com Halo 3: ODST The newest Halo title doesn't star the godlike Master Chief. Instead, you're buckled into the boots of a regular shocktrooper: smaller, slower, and more prone to damage than Spartan 117. That's a good thing, because you have to rely on smarts and stealth rather than superhuman strength and firepower. It's not too hard, though — you still have unlimited lives. $60 • bungie.net DeWalt DWD525K Drill Forget rechargeable batteries and integrated mood rings. DeWalt knows that what you really want in a drill is power. Its engineers figured out a way to wind more copper wire onto the motor armature without making it bigger, yielding a 40 percent increase in power. The result is a compact, ergonomic tool that's mean as hell. $159 • dewalt.com Canon PowerShot S90 If you want killer photos but hate lugging around a bulky DSLR, give Canon's S90 a shot. Its f/2.0 wide-angle lens and image sensitivity up to ISO 3200 provide great results in low light. And the sweet control ring around the lens mimics the feel of an old-school manual. But the composition is on you. No camera can help with that. (Yet.) $430 • Canon.comPhoto: Zachary Zavislak BuckyBalls Rare Earth Magnets Named after the infinitely imaginative Buckminster Fuller (and the buckminsterfullerene molecule), these addictive magnetic spheres undo the ennui of cubicle dwellers and anyone smart enough to keep the choking hazards out of their mouth. Applications are endless: Shape them into a geodesic dome, form a deliciously perfect cube, stick 'em on your friend's metal-plated skull. One thing they are not good for, however, is getting your work done. $30 • getbuckyballs.comVideoPhoto: Zachary Zavislak Explore Scientific Apochromatic Telescope When you're planning your trip to outer space, Explore Scientific's new 80-mm telescope will help you do some quality recon. Its apochromatic lens system focuses the three primary colors separately to minimize visual flaws. Find a place you'd like to visit? Pack your scope in its burly case and head to the spaceport in New Mexico. It should be open next year. $800 • explorescientific.comVideo Microsoft Zune HD The Zune was a gawky kid in 2006, but it has now matured into the handsome HD. Its crisp 3.3-inch OLED touchscreen graces a slim metal case crammed with fat features: a Web browser, an accelerometer for automatic pictu
re positioning, a healthy 32-GB dose of flash memory, and wireless syncing with your music library. Puberty was kind. $290 • store.microsoft.comStaff Pick Omega Speedmaster Maybe it was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing last summer, or maybe it's the classic styling. But if I could have just one watch, it would be this one — the same model worn on that 1969 mission. It can handle any situation, from deep space to black tie. Not that I'm likely to be facing either soon.
— Mark McClusky | Products Editor $3,450 • omega.ch Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 Waterproof Camera The pictures you get from some waterproof cameras look like they were taken underwater even when they weren't. Not so with the TS1: Sporting wide-angle Leica optics, a flat profile, and a 12.1-megapixel sensor that grabs beautiful stills and 720p movies, it's simply the best watertight point-and-shoot we've used. $380 • Panasonic.com « Wish List: 11 to 20Wish List: 31 to 40 »