Gadget of the Week – Samsung BD-P4600

The internet's ability to deliver an endless supply of kick-ass content to your home theater may eventually mean the death of Blu-ray discs.  But that's years in the future, and you have friends to impress and brain cells to waste right now. So check this out: Besides playing Blu-ray Profile 2.0 discs, the BD-P4600 can reach into the internet and pull out any title from Netflix's wild and weird "Watch Instantly" library on demand (if you're a...

Imagine yourself, laying on the beach, checking out the beautiful... water, when you spot the girl of your dreams walking toward you.  So you whip it out and pull on it, making it longer. Then your wife steps up beside you as you hit the camera button and wait for the picture to be taken. With the XShot Camera Extender, you can be in the picture too.  Instead of reminiscing about vacation days long gone, looking at all of the photos where yo...

The Sony DSC-G3 isn't the first camera with wi-fi built in, but it's the first that also has a web browser, so while you're shooting 10.1 MP photos of hot-air balloons you can go online and look at photos of hot-air balloons that are way better. A minimalist metal block with a 4x optical zoom lens, image stabilization, and 4GB of built-in storage, it can upload pictures and video directly to YouTube, Shutterfly, Photobucket, or Picasa.  Eat i...

When it comes to portable solar chargers, FreeLoader is one of the most recognized names in the market. The basic FreeLoader that has been launched last year by UK-based company Solar Technology has now been upgraded into the FreeLoader Pro. The Pro version of the charger is described as the "super powered" FreeLoader. It can charge anything from cell phones and ebook readers to handheld gaming devices and music players. It even has a multi-vo...

With sub-$300 price tags and cute names like Wind and Eee, the cheapo laptops now known as netbooks are outselling every other kind of computer on the market.  Unfortunately, their cramped keyboards, low-res screens, and processors that can barely handle a 1993 version of Doom make most of them good for little more than basic email. That's why I dig Sony's new P series: It has the svelte size and weight of a netbook (9.6" x 4.7" x .78", 1.4 p...

Until now it's taken a special (OK, weird) kind of guy to see sexiness in the profile of a Windows PC.  But even the most manicured Mac fanboy would have to admit that Lenovo's ultrathin IdeaCentre A600 desktop is the sexiest PC ever. The sleek all-in-one unit's 21.5-inch HD screen and hidden speakers and sub make it perfect for doing double duty as a bedroom TV. It even has a sweet remote control/air mouse and wireless keyboard. A Core 2 ...

For this week's "Gadget of the Week" we take a look at a product of futuristic proportions.  The iRiver Wave Home. iRiver's Wave Home makes phone calls over the Internet, browses the internet, and plays video games, and photos on a seven-inch 800x480 touchscreen display.  A wi-fi video phone wedded to a 1 GB entertainment-spewing box small enough to sit on a kitchen counter or a bedside table, this thing fits in well with flying cars, trips ...