Tag: HOLIDASH

Do we have a deal or three for you! This week it was easy to find a few good prices on product the big box electronics retailers are trying to move off their Web sites. Some small items, some big. All still in time for you to be the Santa of everyone's dreams. (We couldn't find a good deal on coal, so we hope there are no naughty boys or girls on your lists.) Find your way to BestBuy.com for a ...

Forget past passions of online bidding for hard-to-get holiday gifts. This year the hot items you can't find are (of course) the Nintendo Wii and (surprise!) Amazon's new Kindle wireless electronic reader, which is garnering final bids of $1,000 and up on Ebay. Kindle is sparking a new fury of interest ever since Amazon sold out of all units and isn't able to deliver any more until after ...

HYPE CHECK: BURTON SLEEPER HOODIE . What it is: Burton's Sleeper Hoodie is designed for the busy air traveler, but should be a big hit with everyone from bands who spend weeks at a time tour buses, to those of us who like to catch a nap on the bus on our way to work. Inside the neck rests an inflatable neck pillow; blow it up, and you've got immediate, built-in head support. (Much better than ...

Brightlings Exploration Station Give your toddler a world of discovery with Leapfrog's $29.99 Brightlings Exploration Station. Promising to teach music, numbers, shapes and words (in five languages, to better confuse you), this little toy will make sure your kids never run out of ways to play. Twenty sing-a-long songs are also included in both Spanish and English and little Brightlings play ...

Made for Me MP3 Music Player Get them into technology early with the Made for Me MP3 Music Player (Playskool, $70), a digital music player that allows you to download up to two hours of music, transfer songs from your personal collection or even record your voice (or your baby's for posterity). With 50 songs already pre-loaded and four different playlists to choose from, you can even put ...

FurReal Friends: Squawkers McCaw If holiday gift conversations with your kids include lots of begging for a pet, then you should check out this nice way to diffuse the situation: Squawkers McCaw, the Furreal Friends Parrot (Hasbro, $65), is a true-to-size, interactive, animatronic bird with voice recognition, programmable features and remote control toy cracker perch. He can repeat words spoken ...

Ready Set Learn! Magic Music Maker There's no doubt that music soothes the wild beast. And if your preschooler tends to grow fangs at times, consider the Ready Set Learn! Magic Music Maker (Discovery, $25), which lets your child to make, record and playback his or her own musical creations. The pint-sized keyboard has 25 electronic keys, eight instrument sounds, an LCD screen and even a ...

Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee Though Shia Laboeuf, thankfully, isn't included, the Transformer Bumblebee (Hasbro, $80) is set to take over your holiday living room. Ultra-detailed with an animated head, wings and arms, this robot can aim and even fire a missile. Then, when he's ready to roll, Bumblebee converts into Camaro concept car mode -- with nine accompanying tunes, including Devo's ...

Lullaby Light Show Give baby a little techno magic with the Lullaby Light Show (Tomy Toys, $27). The revolving musical night light projects baby animals and different figures on the ceiling, while playing a soothing lullaby by Brahms to rock your beloved to sleep. All you need is three D batteries and your baby's ready to rest. << Back Next >> ...

Hi friends. In the mood for a good deal on a gift? We did a little poking around this morning to find some worthy stocking stuffers you might consider -- especially since the price tag is nice. Amazon today is offering deals on SanDisk Sansa MP3 players, including a 68 percent off the list price for a 4 gigabyte Sansa e260, which will now only set you back $79. eCost is wasting no time moving a ...

The folks at I Am 8-Bit (you may remember them from such art shows as this one) and a design company called Couch (great name, eh?) have put their collective pixels together to create some nice Space Invader-inspired guitar straps, particularly for those of you with 'Rock Band' and/or 'Guitar Hero' gee-tars. The vinyl strap comes in either blue or black, and will set you back $33, or ...

"Give in to the power of the tea," the male model, Hansel, whispered as he seduced the overcome reporter in the epic comedy, Zoolander. That's what we thought of as we entered Armani/Casa, an ultra-hip interior design locale in SoHo where fashionistas shop for their postmodern couches and Eastern-influenced coffee tables. It wasn't a home makeover mission that brought us to Never Neverland, ...

Even Santa gets cold feet sometimes, and we're not talking about when he married Mrs. Claus. Japanese gadget trove Thanko has introduced a pair of USB Santa Boots, a gadgetized way to keep the feet warm during the frigid winter months. These slippers, which look suspiciously like footwear belonging to a certain white-bearded, rotund Christmas hero, are heated by a USB connection from the ...

As far as computer ports go -- and technologies in general -- USB has got to be the friendliest. Not only does it lovingly accept almost any kind of gadget imaginable, it also generously parcels out power to those gadgets so that they don't need to be plugged into a wall. As a result, it's quickly become the de facto interface for our printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPods, thumb drives and ...

Verizon Wireless recently released the FlipShot by Samsung, a snazzy new 3-megapixel (MP) camera phone with swivel 'technology.' The crisp 240x320 pixel phone display swivels 180 degrees to allow for different viewing angles and easy sharing of multimedia with friends. To activate the camera, you just open the clamshell halfway and swivel the display 90-degrees towards you and begin shooting ...