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New Gadgets for College-Bound Kids

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With back-to-school season just around the corner, students leaving the nest for college are looking for the latest gadgets to outfit their dorm rooms, enhance their course work and stay in touch with peers.

Traditional notebooks, pens and pencils are quickly becoming obsolete on college campuses and are being replaced by technologies to help students stay connected to every aspect of campus life.

Whether accessing calendars and campus email from a smart phone or downloading text books, here are some of the the latest gadgets to help college-bound students stay ahead of the curve and perfect the art of multi-tasking to enhance their college experience.

Top Tech categories include:

* E-Readers to download text books will ward off an achy back from those pounds of heavy texts.
* Smart phones to help students manage their calendars and gain access to campus email to easily track professor updates and class projects.
* Blue label laptops allow students to download content such as class presentations wirelessly and stream online media and personal content from their laptops to their HDTVs.
* Next Class Laptops with the budget-conscious collegian in mind, are developed to be powerful, versatile and compact enough to go from class to class, connect to all campus wireless networks and have long-lasting batteries to get students through the day.