Get ready for baseball season with this wireless desktop box. The Liveboard ($200) displays the score, inning, batter's count, and base occupancy of any game you choose — all in real time. The perfect gadget for the greatest game.

This guy doesn't look like he can rip you limb from limb — awww, heck. He's as harmless as he seems. This little robot from Wowwee scoots around on three wheels and his whimsical looks could melt the hardest heart. He'll cost $99 in the next few months, so save up! WowWee

I'm not ashamed to admit that the best gift I got this year was a kitchen appliance. As someone who works from home, lunch had become a total bore until my wife gave me my very own Panini maker. Like those industrial Panini presses you see in lunch spots around town, the Hamilton Beach Gourmet Sandwich Maker is a pretty straight-forward affair -- it's essentially just a couple of hinged electric grill pans -- but man-oh-man does this thing make a meal. read more...

Memorializing your avatar from a videogame may seem ridiculous to those that have never wasted days of their life in a massively multiplayer videogame, but trust me on this one: most of the rewards gleaned from playing these games are far less tangible than a tiny statue. "Figure Prints" uses a rapid prototyping machine to print out character models from World of Warcraft, hand paints them, and delivers them to your door...eventually. read more...

Do you go hiking or camping a lot? Do you find yourself getting lost a lot? If the answer is "yes," then you should probably stop hiking or camping. Barring that, however, Spot could come in handy. Spot (SPT -- Satellite Personal Tracker) is a bright orange device, about the size of a PDA, that keeps track of where you are. read more...

Outstanding clock! The Serpentine is a wooden gear clock. Its whimsical curves offer an artistic contrast to the more traditional Ascent clock. You can build this wooden gear clock from a ready-to-assemble kit. Or, you can use a scroll saw to cut the parts from do-it-yourself patterns. read more...

I needed some headphones the other day. I was looking for a pair to try to and drown out the background noise at work. So I went down to my local Best Buy, and found a pair of Sony's for about $200. I figured this was the high-end. I mean, $200 for a set of headphones is pretty spendy, right? read more...

When the site for a product is unusably hip, you have to remember: It's for the kids. The Zipit site gives me a headache every time I view the Flash-only crazy navigation screen, but the product is compelling. The Zipit Messenger 2 ($150) includes Wi-Fi access for unified instant messaging--single buddy list--with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger, as well as photo viewing, local music playback, and music streaming, all in a compact form factor. There are no fees for IM usage, and free access at 9,000 U.S. McDonald's locations (via Wi-Fi network operator Wayport) is included. read more...