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A build-it-yourself, wire-it-yourself, modular dollhouse toy for encouraging little girls to play more in the realm of engineering, math, science, and architecture from an early age. Found thanks to the wonders of Pinterest.

Okay, the name is unpronounceable: eee. It sounds like you're about to flee the monster. But it's a nicely compact subnotebook that only weighs two pounds. If it's light, cheap, easy to toss in a bag, and comes with wireless web browsing and a decent word processor, that's all I really want, anyway.

I've been wanting to fondle one in person -- because the real question is whether I can cope with touch typing on a keyboard that small -- but it looks like all the sources are online-only, even Best Buy and Costco. Still, it was tempting enough when I heard from Charlie Stross that the 4 gig flash disk Ultra is only $400 for a New! Wireless! Subnotebook! but those only come in black and white. Now ASUS has pushed up introduction of their entry-level model, and the Surf is only $300 (!) and it comes in candy-floss pink and spring green! Oh, oh, oh. Technolust. It's pink, dammit. That might just push me over the edge.