NEW GADGET REVIEWS

Das Keyboard Professional

Great marketing, an audacious claim, a catchy slogan, self congratulatory hype and also entirely true: The best keyboard on the planet. Period.

I Can Play Guitar

Though the likes of Activision's Guitar Hero and EA's Rock Band feature itty bitty guitar-shaped controllers so you can air-guitar without the air bit, the Fisher-Price I Can Play Guitar is likewise a guitar controller-based game except it actually teaches guitar.

Piano Wizard

Hmmm... walks like a duck, quacks like a clavier. Turns out, the Piano Wizard is no toy, it just looks that way -- and only if you put cute little stickers on it. Otherwise, it's a bang-on computerized piano teacher.

2.1 Stereo Orb

If you're a sucker for over-sized Christmas baubles worthy of year-round display, check out mStation's 2.1 Stereo Orb, a whimsical little sound systems that also happens to be perfectly simpatico with the stark white Nintendo Wii.

VQM-9350 Upconverting DVD Player

So you broke down and bucked up for an HDTV and high-def cable or high-def satellite, but have little left to spend on a dedicated high def movie player which, these days, comes only in Blu-ray flavor, with prices starting at some $250 up to $1,500. Yikes.

LoSt-CaUzE Gaming Headphones

This is what happens when smart people realize that the videogame industry is now the largest entertainment sector: They hop on board the gravy train. Nice when they bring something useful to the party, like these here Able Planet headphones.

New Game Reviews

Too Human
Xbox 360

Carnival Games
Nintendo DS

Bangai-O Spirits
Nintendo DS

Madden NFL 09
PlayStation 3

Soul Calibur IV
PlayStation 3