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Baseball enthusiasts know the frustration of searching high and low to get the update on scores of their favorite teams. That's all changed with the Ambient Baseball ScoreCaster. Operating on the free InfoCast Wireless Network, the ScoreCaster needs no TV or Internet connection to give instant information on any team, like inning by inning updates, standings (wins, losses, trends) and even ...

Booq Python Blur Backpack (Creative, Under $250) Anyone attempting to travel with loads of multimedia equipment may be wondering if they don't also need a sherpa. Not with the Booq Python Blur Backpack. Polished and sleek enough to belie its function, the Python Blur is a full-featured audiovisual backpack with space for a laptop, camera, books and other accessories. Featuring a cutting edge ...

Jabra Stone (Style-o-Phile, Under $250) The Jabra Stone ($129.99) is the first significant step for the notorious Bluetooth headset in some time. The design effectively removes the annoying "boom" of other headsets off of your face/ear; in fact, it can actually be concealed under longish hair, should you so desire. The excellent sound quality, good battery life, and slick charger (when ...

NVidia 3-D Vision Kit (Gamer, Under $250) "3-D gaming" is one of those terms that gets bandied about quite a bit these days. And while the experience is best experienced in movie theaters, the home alternatives are finally starting to proliferate. Arguably the best option out there is NVidia's 3-D Vision Kit ($199), which connects to your PC, and displays your compatible games in three glorious ...

Glide TV (Homebody, Under $250) More and more of us are watching video content from a notebook computer connected to our television sets, but efficiently interfacing with this content has proven to be something of a challenge. Keyboards and mice can be cumbersome and unwieldy (not to mention completely unusable when there's no flat surface to place them on). So what's an off-the-grid, ...

Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ (Media Hound, under $250) You've got a hard drive full of movies and television, but playing these digital files where they're meant to be played -- on your living room TV/receiver setup, rather than your computer -- can be tricky business. Though its interface is light years behind that of Apple TV, the FreeAgent Theater+ ($150) excels in flexibility: The device can ...

Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale (Sports Fan, Under $250) Self-improvement, body-opmtimization technology is coming at us fast and furious, and the Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale is one of the best implementations yet. It's a simple concept: Set up your online profile, and every time you weigh yourself on the scale, your weight and body mass is sent via your Wi-Fi connection to your online account. This ...

MSR Reactor Outdoor Stove (Earth Lover, Under $250) Cooking outside can be challenging, no matter how seasoned the outdoorsman. The MSR Reactor stove will get it done, and will do it quickly. Burning a mixture of isobutane and propane, the windproof, hyper-efficient Reactor uses less than half the fuel of an average gas stove. The 1.7 liter pot is spacious enough to prepare high tea for ...

Philips HF3490 Wake-Up Light (Gadget Head, Under $200) The iPod docking functionality definitely takes a back seat here. Instead, the Philips' HF3490 Wake-up Light ($199) tries to make life a bit easier by gradually increasing in intensity to ease users out of their slumber, with 20 shades of light to push through those heavy eyelids. The alarm comes with four preset nature sounds, as well as ...

Livio NPR Radio (Homebody, Under $250) Okay, so it's not just for listening to NPR, but for those who can't imagine anything better than a cup of lemon-ginger tea and an episode of 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross,' this is about as good as it gets. This $199 Web radio connects to your home Internet via either Ethernet or Wi-Fi to play any of Livio's index of over 16,000 other worldwide webcasts, ...

João Sabino a Portuguese designer has finally found a use for all those computer keyboards that land in the trash. He has repurposed 393 discarded keys to cover interesting-looking, though impractical, handbags. The tote style bags are described as fashionable, though we can't really imagine anyone carrying one of these around. That doesn't mean we can't sit back and admire the geeky ...

Ever wish you could make any audio setup wireless? We checked out the i2i Stream wireless audio system that essentially takes the place of a cord and allows you to stream audio from nearly any source. The kit comes with two combination transmitter/receiver devices and when you want to make a music source wireless, you simply connect the output to one of these small devices using the included ...

Here's a gift for the geek and golfer on your holiday shopping list, the Gyro Swing, a golf club with a gyroscope in the head. A perfect gift, that is, as long as you don't mind dropping $200 and are comfortable with purchasing something based on questionable scientific claims. The gimmicky Gyro Swing claims that the gyroscopic disc inside the head, which spins 20,000 times per minute, lets you ...

If you're planning on buying into a new HD set and/or a Blu-ray player this holiday season, the BBC is packaging up a six-disc Blu-ray set that you'll want to check out. 'The BBC Earth Collection' combines the 'Planet Earth: The Complete Series' and 'Earth: The Biography' like so much peanut butter and chocolate -- if you're getting a whole new TV and Blu-ray player setup, it's a great way to show ...

Scandyna Dock Pack (Style Maven, Under $250) Looking for an iPod dock with a little more design sense than offered by most of those clunky, boxy models lining the shelves at your local chain store? Scandyna's Dock Pack combines an orb-like iPod dock with two of Scandyna's compact ultramodern (or retro-modern?) Micropod SE speakers. Each has a tweeter and bass/midrange speaker, and the speaker ...