Its holiday time and Best Magazine Senior Editor, David Gregg has got some gift ideas and tips for the season.
Mini Cartoon cartridges for GameBoy Owners
For the over 24-million Nintendo GameBoy Advance owners, a company called Majesco just introduced a product that converts the GameBoy Advance into a personal Video player. Its new Game Boy Advance Video mini cartridges make great stocking stuffer. Each cartridge holds 45-minutes of cartoons complete with on screen controls (FF, Rewind < etc) with a library of content from the likes of Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and more. With big-name titles like Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer Yu Gi Oh! And more the Mini Cartridges are sure to keep the kids entertained on the long trip back from Grandmas. Best of al they sell for only ($20: www.majesco.com) Spidey II and X-men fast action video games for teens
For teens and young adults one of Activisons Spider man II and X-Men Legends are two of the most anticipated movie -related action games to hit the market. Spidey II has a brand new exclusive mission in realistic New York back drop with an awesome sound track while X-men (narrated by Patrick Stewart) is action action action all the way. Both are available on every game format ($50; www.activision.com)
Satellite radio for the sports fan
For the serious sports fan in the family Sirius satellite radio has a cool product called the Sportster. The Sportster was designed to enhance Sirius broadcast of NFL games, and features a Game Alert Prompt that lets you know when your favorite team is playing, and a Game Zone that lists every sport program on the air. The Sportster head unit allows you to connect with optional docking stations ($50) for the car, home, boat or a boom box, making it the most portable of Sirius devices. Sirius Satellite Radio features 65-commercial free music channels and 50 news, sports, talk. (MSRP-$100 Service $12/mo; www.sirius.com)
Software that simplifies digital photography and making home movies
For the third year running Digital Cameras are expected to be the hottest selling Consumer electronic product of the season. However, many folks are still in a quandary when it comes to «fixing» and sharing their pictures and piecing together their videos into a final product. Adobe has two new products that make it easier than ever shoot store, edit and share your family memories for generations to come.
Adobes new Premiere Elements turns your computer into an all-in-one home video studio. It automates most of the challenges associated with video editing like capturing video from your DV camera. By just pointing and clicking your mouse, youll be able to edit your footage, add music, splice in still images and even cut in bits of old movie footage. You can even create custom DVDs, complete with menus and scene indexes to share with your friends and family. The «Academy» may have to create a new Oscar category for best home movies once this new software catches on! (MSRP: $99.99 www.adobe.com)
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 allows amateur digital photographers to do what they were meant to do…take pictures and print them like a professional. This new version of the already well known photo editing and organizing software picks up with incredible enhancements where the last version left off. Features like one click fixes and advanced photo editing features puts you in total control of the print making and organizing of your entire virtual photo album. Share your pictures easily and creatively, via slide shows, web galleries and Adobe Photoshop Services, which gives you the option of ordering high-quality prints and customizable photo books, in collaboration with Ofoto. You can even use Elements to easily scan and digitize your old school snapshots that you have stored in shoeboxes! (MSRP: $99.99 www.adobe.com)
Money Saving Phone
Stay in touch and save money too long after the holiday get together with the gift of an internet telephone. Any long distance family or be it college kids or bicoastal broods can benefit from this new low cost technology. ATT is one of the first major carriers to embrace broadband phone service. All you need is a high speed modem and you can keep your own phone number and literally cut your long distance phone bills in half with unlimited nationwide and Canada calling for under $30/month . ATT just announced retail partnerships with almost every major electronics retailer --. Installation is simple, just plug phone into your cable modem or DSL and its ready to work. Jura-Capresso
IMPRESSA S9
Best in its class bronze luxury edition of the Jura-Capresso line of super automatic coffee and espresso centers. With the push of a button it grinds, tamps, brews and self-cleans in less than a minute. Automatically produces perfect espressos, cappuccinos, lattes and full size cups of pressure-brewed coffee cup-by-cup. The first to offer two advanced frothing options traditional barista wand and the frothXpress PLUS system. Suggested retail price $2,200. Jura-Capresso offers a fully automatic coffee and espresso centers ranging from $999 to $3,999.
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