Category: $50 and Under

Anybody with a lot of gadgets has a lot of cables, which can get tangled and unsightly without too much effort. The clutter-averse gadget head or neat-freak in your life will find the ingeniously-designed Cable Turtles to be useful. The doughnut-shaped rubber Cable Turtles flip inside out to reveal a central pole that is used to wrap your power cord around. When you're done wrapping, you just ...

When we think about our mice (not the breathing kind, but the computer kind), we all agree on one missing element -- a little floating rubber duck. This novelty peripheral from the folks at Uncommon Goods is pretty much your standard optical mouse: It has two buttons, a scroll wheel, and a design that makes it frustratingly difficult to find a comfortable position to hold it, but then there's ...

Though it's aimed at kids, we think anybody who loves a tune or just hates brushing their teeth will get a kick (and a sparkling smile), out of Tooth Tunes, which plays music while you brush your teeth (for the full two-minutes recommended by dentists, no less). When you take the brush off of your teeth, Tooth Tunes stops playing music and picks up where it left off as soon as you start brushing ...

There are those who prefer their holiday gifts small and cute (either giving or receiving), and for those people, MoPods make a great choice. The idea is to wear your MoPod on your bag, belt, clothing, key rings, then just go about your business and wait for them to spin and flash to alert you when your phone is ringing There's something for every cute fetish: panda, devil, kitten, puppy, and ...

For aesthetes who like their desktops to look as fresh and clean as everything else in their Japanese-influenced, eco-friendly homes, Podera has some relevant USB hotness. Its Luxe Hub and Luxe USB 2.0 Hub and Luxe USB 2.0 card reader, both priced at $16.95, are absolutely gorgeous pieces of design. They perform simple tasks, but with grace: The former splits a single USB port into four, while ...

As fans of the original already know (and the rest of you can probably surmise), Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends ($30) is a game about cooking. The original game Cooking Mama Cook Off came out for the Nintendo Wii, but the follow up has gone all handheld. In Cooking Mama 2, you use the Nintendo DS touch screen to complete recipes that are divided into steps -- usually involving rice, fish, ...

The EyeClops ($50) is a great concept: Essentially an electronic hand-held microscope that plugs into your TV, and displays whatever you're pointing it at onto the big screen -- magnified 200 times over. There are some limitations if you're using it with a TV (namely, having to be tethered to the TV and view things around the house); however, those armed with a video camera (with a composite ...

So the travel bug in your life has one of those new iPod Touches and they love it. They're also scratching the poor thing to near death in that carry-on bag filled with change and keys. To save them some sanity, put the ezSkin on their iPod. Not only will this silicon wrap keep their iPod from getting scratched and dented during all that travel, it also won't add much bulk -- a key when one has ...

Just when the photographer in your life is about to say they had everything they need, you can show up with the Gorillapod tripod, as we are pretty sure they have never seen this little thing. This cool spider-like gadget attaches to the tripod port on any camera on one end and can attach to virtually anything else on the other. Wrap it around a tree for an impromptu timer shot or affix it to a ...

Of the types of people who would salivate over a silly little robotic-dog-cum-speaker-system, kids and gadget heads are probably at the top of the list. Yes, the original iteration of this robo-dog speaker -- which blasts music from your iPod, computer, or other audio device -- came out last year, but he (or she) has been given a makeover. The new i-Dog Amp'd ($35) now features stereo-sound, ...