Das Keyboard Professional
Macintosh, Windows PC
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
General Use, TV Plug-n-Play
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
General Use, Hardware, Macintosh, Software, Windows PC
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
Audio, General Use, Hardware, Videogame
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
DVD, High-Def, Television
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
Audio, General Use
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.