Tech Guide '08: Good-time Gizmos

» Porky the Pod
The iPig ($140, Speakal.com) dock turns that suave status symbol in your pocket into a big joke. We suggest loading your iPod with the proper music, say, the Bacon Brothers.
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» Get Blastered
Of course we're buying the Hasbro Lazer Tag System ($75, Toysrus.com) for a kid! Really. We're not going to have epic inter-office battles between the accounting department and human resources.
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» Digital Digits
Your pal can use his touch-screen phone even in the winter with gloves ($15, Dotsgloves.com) that have tiny scratch-proof metal dots embedded in them. They'll conduct enough current between his fingers and the screen to let him text you all winter.
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» TiVo for Radio
The portable XMp3 from Pioneer ($250, XMRadio.com/xmp3) will record up to five XM stations at once and play back MP3s from portable media. You can listen to Howard Stern and record Oprah for later!
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» Small Favorite
Ditch the bulky tower! If a desktop computer is your thing, try the paperback book-size Eee Box from Asus (in white at Amazon.com), which for only $300 packs a large list of features.
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» Sharp Focus
The Blackbird, fly ($135, Shopping.icp.org/store/) camera hearkens back to the old days of photography, yet it takes regular 35mm film. Plus, you'll look retro cool while shooting.
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» Hot Snapshot
Epson's new all-in-one Artisan 700 printer ($200, Epson.com) features two paper trays (one for photo, one for text), Wi-Fi and a sleek black design that's less than 8 inches tall. Plus, it churns out text pages at an amazing 38 pages per minute!
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» Two for One
Philanthropy can feel good in the wallet, too, not just your heart: For $400, get two XO laptops from One Laptop Per Child (Laptop.org). An underprivileged child overseas gets a kidproof laptop, and then the wee one in your life scores one, too.
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Written by Express contributor Rachel Kaufman