New Gadget 2011

We're partial to bunnies around these parts, so when we heard someone had hooked one up to Internet, our ears pricked up. This odd little gadget is Nabaztag Tag ($190, nabaztag.com). Put him in a Wi-Fi hot spot and he'll start talking every so often, delivering messages, playing Internet radio or reading website for you. Push the button on his head and he can respond to your voice commands for weather reports and stock quotes. Think of him as an adorable harbinger of the coming age of frivolous...

The gap between the cell phone and the full-bore computer is shrinking by the second. Witness OQO's Model O2 ($1,500 to $1,850, oqo.com), a complete Windows Vista machine that weighs just a pound and fits in the palm of your hand. It sports a touch screen for easy navigation, has a slide-up screen that reveals a full QWERTY keypad and a 60-gigabyte hard drive. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are standard, and you can opt for a built-in high-speed wireless module that will work with either Verizon's or Sprint's...

People shopping for cheap MP3 players often default to the Aplle iPod shuffle because of the ads-and hey, it works with iTunes. But listen up, folks, SanDisk's cool new player costs about $20 less and comes with some slick features the shuffle can't match.The Sansa Express has a vibrant 1.1-inch OLED screen for menu navigation, a digital FM tuner, and voice recording. And you can upgrade the 1GB storage by adding a microSD card-you can't do that with the shuffle. The Express lets you navigate your...

Learning the guitar is something best done in private. Tascam's MP-GTI MP3 player ($269, tascam.com) provides a practice space inside your headphones. Expressly designed with apprentice guitar gods in mind, it has a built-in metronome and tuner; plus it lets you loop sections, adjust tempo and shift pitch. Plug in your ax and it'll even supply overdrive and other effect...

Even if you're not spinning records at clubs till dawn, Stanton DJ's new professional turntable isn't a bad piece of audio equipment to add to your entertainment system. Audiophiles agree that vinyl still has a fuller and richer sound than CD, and the Stanton T.90 USB is more than a mere "record player". It offers a high-torque direct-drive motor and three playback speeds- just in case you still have those old 45- and 78-rpm records lying around.It also has a +/-8 and 12 percent pitch slider, and...

Trading in boring black plastic for reflective brushed steel, LG's shiny new handset will appeal to fashion-conscious Verizon customers who are sick of taking low-res camera-phone photos.The VX8700's cold, stainless-steel exterior takes the RAZR aesthetic and bumps it up a notch. With a brighter brushed sheen than is found on a standard metal phone, it doesn't attract fingerprints and even seems to glow slightly.As a phone, the VX8700 fits firmly into the good-but-not-great category. Reception is...

When shopping for a digital camera, consumers too often focus on big, powerful zooms even though there are very good reasons to look at the other end of the range-the wide angle. A wider angle helps you capture more of a particular scene, making it ideal for group portraits, landscapes, and interiors. The very compact Panasonic lumix DMC-TZ3 offers both externs: a true wide-angle view and a 10X optical zoom.In addition to the wide-angle (28mm) lens, the 7.2-megapixel Lumix DMC-TZ3 has a large 3-inch...

Fulfill your movie-making dreams with this handhel video-cam from sanyo. The HD2 Digital Media Center supports hi-res MPEG4 recording, in-cam editing, 10x optical zoom, and so much more. And if you like realistic sounds, it's even got stereo recording. Gonzo porn will never be the sam...

With smooth and sexy cell phones like the LG Chocolate and the LG Shine under its belt, LG has edged Motorola to become one of the most famous producers of design-centric phones. It's no doubt, then, that Prada - one of the world's leader fashion houses - has chosen to associate with LG to create the very first Prada-branded cell phone. Ever since the LG first publicized the Prada, there has been a hurricane of hype nearby the phone. And the hype makes sense: not only is the phone slim and beautiful,...

Virtually synonymous with cameras, Kodak has launched new models that will cement their photo-taking reputation even further. The EasyShare V802 (8MP) and its big brither the V1003 (10MP) are a breeze to use and come loaded with heavy duty features - Panaramic stitch, he-res video, Kodak Perfect Touch technology and more. Nice and slim, they won'n put a bulge in your pocket, and better yet, won't put a dent in your wallet eithe...

Hewlett-Packard is best known for making printers. That changed with its nearly $19 billions purchase of Compaq, which gave HP an entire PC line, including the iPAQ handhelds. And now it enters the mobile-phone market with the HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger, HP's first real cellphone. There are already several smart-phones out there and iPAQ 510 doesn't have such nifty tools like Palm Treo's touch screen or Blackberry's scroll wheel. What it offers instead is a built in voice recognition system, which...

Griffin Technologies, which has become synonymous to Apple accessories, came up with this simple gadget that transforms your iPod into an instant Karaoke machine. And it cost only $50.Just like the Magic Sing, the iKaraoke is basically a microphone that attaches to any iPod with a dock connector. Roughlythe length of pencil, the mic has four buttons on the side to control various functions.It comes with a four-foot cord that connects to an adapter to be attached to the button of the iPod.This adapter...