Portable Color USB Sheetfed Scanner

It's that time of year when we're thinking about taxes and deductions again. Wouldn't it be nice if all of your reciepts and bills were right there on your computer? With this innovative sheet scanner, they could be!

It plugs in to a USB port on your computer, and you can just feed a sheet of paper, reciept, or business card into it for scanning. All the software you need is included. This scanner is also set up for traveling, so if you're a road warrior you can easily take it with you to scan reciepts & business cards while you travel.

What a great way to ditch that stack of odd-sized bits of paper you're hanging on to for taxes and expense tracking!
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Portable Color USB Sheetfed Scanner | Electronics  Office  

iPod Hi Fi

The newest thing for the iPod fan from Apple is the iPod Hi-Fi, a docking station and speaker system combined into one compact, powerful, and convenient unit!

This all-new high-fidelity speaker system works with all iPods through a docking port on the top of the unit. Just set your iPod onto it, and it automatically gets charged and can play your favorite tunes with rich, stereo sound via the handy remote control. It's also able to be run from batteries, so you can take it with you wherever you want that big sound from your little iPod.

Available from the Apple Store, with free shipping if you click from this link!
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iPod Hi Fi | Electronics  

Hasbro TV Mini Golf

My family loves to play mini golf but lets face it, by the time we get down there it costs over $20 for the 3 or 4 of us to play 18 holes.

While it won't replace a real live course, fun TV golf game from Hasbro is a lot of fun in its own right! My son got it for Christmas and we're still playing it daily a month later.

Setup is easy...put in the batteries and plug two cables in to your TV's composite input or VCR, just like most video games. That's all there is to it.

There are 5 different courses you can play, from the traditional "Goofy Golf" type layout with windmills and ramps to the exotic outer space course with orbiting planets, very little friction, and wandering robots.

There's an aiming wheel that fits the club head, and optical sensor in the "ball" that detects how hard you swing the club, so the putter action is quite realistic, excepting that you skim over the ball instead of hitting it. It's quite easy to master.
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Hasbro TV Mini Golf | Electronics  Toys  

Magellan eXplorist 400 Handheld GPS

The eXplorist 400 is in the middle of the eXplorist line of GPS receivers from Magellan, but I like it because it's an excellent value and includes the expandable SD memory card feature.

Whether you're on the local bike trail, hiking all day, or even just in the car chasing down garage sales on a saturday morning, this convenient and rugged handeld GPS will get you there (and more importantly...back!).
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Magellan eXplorist 400 Handheld GPS | Electronics  Outdoor Fun  

iPod nano

Just when you thought you'd seen all there was to see iPod-wise, Apple has come out with a new model! The iPod nano is just 0.27 inches thick and weighs only 1.5 ounces! Despite the thin size, It's a full-feature iPod though with a crisp color display and 14-hour battery life.

The price point is pretty great too: $199 for 2GB (500 songs) and $249 for 4GB (1000 songs), with free shipping and free laser engraving if you order it from this site.

I have an iPod Shuffle and love it...but this new model making me think of upgrading to a nano! :)

Source: The Apple Store
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iPod nano | Electronics  

Hand Painted Computer Mouse

Looking for a high-tech with a lo-tech touch? Look no further than this computer mouse, hand-painted by Russian artists with miniature scenes as you'd find on a fine lacquer box! The example shown is a peony flower painting, but at the web site they have all manner of subjects to choose from.

These artistic mice are coated with several layers of special lacquer to make them durable and fully functional.

Source: Russian Legacy
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Hand Painted Computer Mouse | Electronics  Folk Art  

Lasonic region-free DVD player

We're very fond of region-free here at my house. If you don't know what that means, in a nutshell, your typical DVD player is "region-locked" to only play a DVD from your own part of the world. So if you're a fan of British comedies, German documentaries, Japanese Anime, etc., and would like to buy a DVD from that country and play it at home...you're out of luck!

This affordable Lasonic DVD player is a solution. It has all the typical DVD features you'd expect, plus it supports the DIVX/MP4 formats for highly-compressed DVD-R movies. Great stuff!

We use our region-free player to watch DVD's of TV shows from the UK that you just can't see anywhere here in the USA, like "Coupling", "Men Behaving Badly", and "Ground Force" specials in their original format.

Source: J-List
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Lasonic region-free DVD player | Electronics  

DirecTV + TiVo

OK, this may not be that unusual these days, but it's something cool and one of those things it's hard for me to imagine being without...DirecTV and TiVo.

What brought this to mind is that while I have been out enjoying the fresh air and sunshine, my TiVo has been faithfully recording the Space Shuttle mission hilights from NASA TV, my favorite cooking shows on the Food Network, and even the latest Beach Volleyball, all without me doing anything. Whenever I have the time and want to watch them, I can. That's the best thing, it lets me do my viewing on my schedule.

If you have kids, how many times have you heard "hey, I want to watch that again!". TiVo is great for that. We have a whole season's worth of The Backyardigans and Prehistoric Planet saved away for whenever my son wants to see them. It's so handy!
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DirecTV + TiVo | Electronics