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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you're still listening to videogame audio through your TV speakers, you probably know better. After all, new generation consoles are rather famous for their big fat 5.1 kabooms and subtle .1 thrummings. You can get a good piece of that with a 2.1 Stereo Tower from mStation -- and an iPod player while you're at it.
