Here is the link to my latest segment on the Today Show.

Cardscan Executive (Cardscan $259) isn't the newest gadget on the planet, but I recently took one for a spin, and was so impressed that I thought it merited special praise.

This mini-scanner, designed primarily to scan and organize business cards, a chore that I tended to put off until, well…never. I came to the product skeptical of its price and claims. It seemed too expensive and too good to be true. It turns out that by reliably cleaning up my contact list, it more than earned back its not inconsiderable price.

The Beatles RockBand (Harmonix $59.99, $249 with instruments)
Get a piece of paper. At the top write Holiday Family Shopping List 2009. Put a #1 at the top of the page. Now write “The Beatles RockBand” next to it. That’s it. You’re done.

I'll be appearing on the Today Show on August 27 to talk about Back-to-School hi-tech for kids from preschool to high-school. Follow the link for some of the products I'll be demoing.

E3 2009 officially ended at 2009, but you couldn't tell that from the raft of emails I've received from publicists since the six o'clock witching hour.

In addition to the big news about Project Natal, Microsoft announced today that Xbox360 is getting substantial upgrades:

In the future we don’t type at computers, we interface with them. We talk, we wave, but we do not type. Welcome to the future and Project Natal launched by Microsoft at its 2009 E3 kick-off event.

With Project Natal we’ve warped forward from wired joysticks to wireless nunchucks to controlling a computer with no peripheral in hand at all.

E3 2009 hasn't even started, and yet we already have a strong contender in the category "most bizarre press release of the year". Electronic Arts' announcement that Dante's Inferno is being converted to an action adventure with "a highly addictive combat system" made me think it had been clipped from The Onion.

All of my geeky childhood dreams of commanding the Enterprise were dashed by Tyco's fantastically, fatally flawed "First ever Flying R/C Enterprise". Did anyone test this thing before putting it in a box?

Replica from Seagate has quietly revolutionized the backup business for PCs. There are few products that receive “Must-Have” status, but no PC should be running today without a Replica backup system attached. It is cheap, simple to operate, and nearly foolproof. Replica not only backs up you documents – it provides complete image restoration if your computer is hit by virus or hard disk failure!