While Gillette has built a very successful business model around "giving away the razors to sell the blades," Microsoft seems to have a methodology all its own: "Overprice everything and let them eat cake."

Continuing a long history of creating cool kids' gadgetry, VTech's latest tyke-minded toy is the V.Smile TV Learning System.

Originally designed with cell phone users in mind, foneGear's Cord Free Headset also happens to be innately compatible with Xbox as a Communicator headset alternative.

Tots like videogames too, but there's always the looming threat of technological zombification at that impressionable age.

If you're thinking of a videogame vocation or you're merely interested in what such people do, pick up Marc Saltzman's new book "Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts."

As a retro video game collection, there's nothing quite like this little blast from Activision's past, the infancy of home videogames and the Atari 2600 (a small step up from the ubiquitous PONG). But the Activision TV 10-In-1 Games Video Game System is more than just a software bundle of early-tech interactive entertainment; it's a complete videogame device in and of itself, with the actual games packed right in.