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The term “gamer” seems to have become the official-unofficial buzzword of the past few years. After Microsoft jumped into the gaming fray, proving once and for all that you can’t spell “fundamentally flawed operating system” without “fun”, the world sat up and took notice, primarily because it was about as engaging as watching a walleyed nerd attempting to mingle with the cool kids at the playground. They were successful, of course, and now Bill’s rockin’ it with the skateboarders, rap artists, and hip cats touting “human energy”. Absolutely brilliant.

Equally brilliant (if somewhat forced) is Philips’ branding of this plain old webcam as a gaming cam. While attaching a microphone to this gadget and calling it a “gaming device” is about as justifiable as tagging Paris Hilton as classy and sophisticated, we can’t argue with the supreme logic of additional USB hubs. You can never have enough USB hubs, we always say.