Color. Laser. Printer. It rolls off the tongue nicely, but it sure doesn’t sound very sexy.

So what would it take for me to get you to buy one? A free iPod? How about a free PlayStation Portable? Maybe a free GPS?

Believe it or not, that’s exactly what NewEgg is offering when you buy the Xerox Phaser 6130/N between now and the end of the month.

At around $325, the 6130/N is a solid value in its own right, with full PostScript and Pantone support, USB and Ethernet connectivity, and print speeds up to 16ppm. This isn’t some clearance printer, either: it got a respectable 3/5 rating from PCMag and is one of the smallest on the market.

But consider the bundles they’re offering (a free $210 22-inch LCD monitor or free $198 Garmin Nuvi 250W, for example) and it’s like you’re getting the printer or just $125.

Did we menthon there’s free shipping? A good thing since it weighs almost 40 pounds!

Graphics tablets have always been rather niche, despite Wacom’s best efforts over the years to mass market them.

The Bamboo is the latest attempt to sell graphics tablets to non-graphics professionals. It’s small, basic, and cheap. The latter being the most important factor going for it, if you ask us.

The Bamboo tablet features a 5.8″x3.7″ active area and includes a stylus with 512 levels of pressure sensitivity. Which is about 510 more than a crayon.

If you have kids in the house or want to play with your photos, the Bamboo is a no brainer for around $63 shipped from Amazon (retail is $79).

If you’d like a mouse and some software included, the Bamboo Fun has you covered for about $93 shipped. We think it’s a waste, though: the software consists of older versions of popular applications and you already have a perfectly good mouse.

If you want a bigger area, though, the Bamboo Fun does come in a Medium size with an 8.5″x5.3″ active area. But it will also set you back almost $180. Watch out for bamboo splinters!

A couple months ago, we brought to your attention that TigerDirect was blowing out Logitech’s two-year-old iPod Audio Station for just $19.97 after $50 rebate (originally $299). If you missed out on that deal, it’s still available, albeit for $29.99 after $50 rebate.

Logitech replaced the excellent-sounding Audio Station with the similarly styled Pure-Fi Elite. Also originally retailing for $299, the Pure-Fi Elite features a much better remote than the AudioStation, and probably a couple other improvements, too (but we’re not sure what).

The important thing here is that onSale is now blowing out the Pure-Fi Elite for just $44.87 after $70 mail-in rebate. Free shipping is included, but that won’t do much to ease the anxiety some people feel leaving $70 up to the occasionally flakey rebate gods.

With most retailers selling the Pure-Fi for $125-$150, we’d call this a pretty solid deal.

What else do you need to know?

• It sounds great (with two 4″ woofers and two 1″ soft-dome tweeters)
• It features an AM/FM radio and a clock
• It sports Composite and S-Video outputs (for connecting your iPod to a TV to watch videos)
• It also has an auxiliary input, so you can use it with other devices
• It carries a respectable 2-year warranty

All in all, quite a solid package. The only question that remains is who actually is paying full retail price for Logitech’s stuff these days? Not you, clever reader, that’s for sure!

Calling the Red One a video camera is like calling the Desert Eagle .50 a handgun: it just doesn’t do it justice.

But instead of shooting bullets that could blow someone’s head off, the Red One shoots video that could blow your pants off. Consider that it can capture 2K video (that’s 1080p to us laymen) at 120 frames per second, or 4x conventional playback speed. It can also capture 4K video at 30 fps, which is twice the resolution of 1080p. Betcha didn’t know that even existed!

Bottom line: for anyone really serious about video, the Red One is the camera to have. It weighs 10 pounds, is built like a tank, and starts at $17,000—although options can push it way past the price of new Honda Accord.

Want to see what it can do? Check out this skate video. Never before have kickflips been captured in such detail.

Perhaps the most annoying out-of-the-box shortcoming of Apple’s beloved iPod, iPhone, and AppleTV products is the lack of support for DivX or XviD movies.

Granted, those are the two formats most preferred by file sharers (so you can’t blame Apple for wanting to appease their media partners), but that’s really irrelevant: virtually every other similar device does support DivX and XviD.

Instead of buying an alternative device or hacking the Apple product you own, just pick up Elgato’s Turbo.264 video encoder. This little hardware dongle resembles a USB thumb drive but enables your system to transcode video to Apple’s preferred h.264 MPEG-4 format 10x faster (or more) than your computer could.

This means that 120 minute XviD movie you have will take around 10 minutes give or take to make ready for your iPod, iPhone, or AppleTV. It’s not limited to just DivX and XviD support, either. Virtually any video format your Mac or PC can play can be speedily transcoded to the Apple-friendly format.

Pick one up from Amazon for $81.79 with free shipping, it’s the lowest price you’ll find at the moment (retail is $99).

Etymotic makes some terrific earphones, and with the new hf2 you won’t have to decide between good quality sound or using a headset or adapter with your iPhone.

The hf2 earphones feature both a built-in mic and iPhone-ready (narrow) plug. The result is great sounding music and iPhone convenience.

These $180 earphones have the same response accouracy as the compny’s $300 model, and is said to deliver more noise isolation than any other competing headset. It ships with the usual array of goodies that high-end earphones come with, including assorted eartips, a filter tool (and two replaceemnts), and storae case.

The hf2 isn’t just iPhone compatible, either: it will work with ordinary audio devices and other mobile phones.

Pick them up at Amazon for $176.81.

One half of the StuffGeeksWant team recently moved from Virginia to Texas (now you know why there was that lull in posts!).

The move went smoothly, except that one of the feet on the bottom of a Logitech MX1000 mouse (one of the best, albeit now-discontinued, mice of all time) decided to stay in Virginia.

But no worries: losing a mouse foot is the perfect excuse to splurge on a set of Mouse Skates from Hyperglide.

Mouse Skates are crafted from 100% pure untextured teflon, improving the smoothness and consistency with which your mouse glides atop a surface. They’re also 0.5 to 0.8mm thick, which Hyperglide says gives it an edge in durability compared to other aftermarket mouse feet.

Because they’re designed primarily with gamers in mind, Mouse Skates are only available for certain mice from Microsoft, Logitech, and Razer—although with a bit of cutting they could fit more mice, presumably.

Pick up a set for around $10 plus shipping from Buy.com (search for Hyperglide) or FrozenCPU.com. They come 8 to a set, so enough for two mice (or two applications on the same mouse, if you wear the bejesus out of them).

HELIUS Solar-Power Backpack

Do you ever wish you could charge your iPod or cell-phone without having to find a power outlet?

You need a Helius Solar-Power Backpack from V-Dimension.

It’s got a little solar-cell on the outside of the pack and comes with adapters for iPod and iPhone, Mini-USB (for Blackberry/Motorola Razr V3), Samsung, LG, Nokia, and Motorola phones. It also has an ear-bud hole, so you can listen to your music while the iPod or iPhone are charging in the pack.

Approximate charging times for various devices in full-sun are:

• Internal Battery Pack: 7 Hrs
• iPhone: 7 Hrs
• iPod: 3.5 Hrs
• Cell Phone: 3.5 Hrs
• GPS: 3.5 Hrs

It won’t charge your laptop (just can’t provide enough electricity) but as we all start using our iPhones for more and more of what we do online, that’ll be much less of an issue.

Bottom line: it looks great, carries your stuff well, and will keep your iPod and iPhone charged when you can’t find an outlet.

Price: $125 on Amazon.com

A buddy of mine was asking for advice about flash-memory HD camcorders, and I recommended the Canon VIXIA HF100 to him, because it’s the upgrade to a model another friend of mine has, and these things take awesome video.

With features like a 3.3 Megapixel Full HD CMOS, Canon’s Digic image processing, image stabilization, 12x optical zoom, and a huge 2.7-inch widescreen lcd screen, it’s hard to find a more capable flash-memory camcorder.

It records video in AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) format, which uses an MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video codec allowing you to get true 1080 High Definition resolution video. The compression algorithm of this codec lets you get twice as much video as a raw DV stream, in the same amount of space… which is what truly allows this camera to stand out against tape based video cameras.

Measuring only 2.9-inches wide, 2.5-inches high and 5.1-inches deep, and weighing only 13.4 ounces, with all of the controls in the right place, you’ll love holding this camcorder.

As always, we recommend picking up an extra battery and a few extra memory cards (get 32GB or 16GB cards if you can) and you’ll be set.

Price: $600 - $700 at Amazon.com