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Sonos with iPod/iPhone app (Domestic God/Goddess, Under $500) Sonos, the multi-room wireless music system that lets you stream music from the Web and your PC, can now be controlled with that device we all know and love: the iPhone (and iPod Touch). The new iPhone app (free for any Sonos user) is big news for several reasons. First, the touch-based interface is a huge improvement over Sonos' ...

Skybar Wine Preservation and Optimization System (Domestic Goddess/God, Under $1,000) If you're any kind of wine drinker, then you probably know the sinking sensation of having that perfectly good Bordeaux go south after having been re-corked a couple of days. Damn the destructive power of oxygen! Skybar aims to give your treasured plonk extra life, and make the pouring all the better with its ...

LiteOn IT Skyla Memoir Photo Frame (Domestic Goddess/God, Under $500) We love it when something so obvious and so useful that no one ever bothered to think of it suddenly appears. The first entry in LiteOn's new Skyla line of products is the Memoir, a digital photo frame. Big whoop, right? Well this one also brings photo-scanning magic to the game?pop a 4 x 6 print in the slot at the base and ...

Plant Sense EasyBloom (Domestic God/Goddess, under $100) Bringing green thumbs into the digital age, the EasyBloom is a nifty device that tells users both what may be ailing with their plants, and what other vegetation they should consider. To diagnose underperforming greenery, put the EasyBloom in Monitor mode, stab it into the ground nearby and leave it there for 24 hours. Then plug it into ...

Tokyo Bay Tokibot Clock (Domestic God/Goddess, Under $50) When the robots come to enslave us all?and they will?a little forethought in the form of a devotional idol will surely go a long way to saving the humans. Tokyo Bay's retro-styled robot clock doesn't do much other than tell the time, stand and look pretty cool, but for devout tech geeks that's more than enough to ask for in a ...

HP TouchSmart PC (Domestic God/Goddess, Under $5000) Oh, Apple must be pissed -- HP put out the next-gen desktop that the iMac should've been. This all-in-one is a standout already, with its vast and thoughtful features list: a built-in TV tuner with full-size remote; an ambient light sensor that illuminates the wireless keyboard and mouse; a webcam and microphone for video chats; a full array ...