You're dating yourself if you remember the days of Andy Summers, on tour as guitarist for The Police, toting along with his fine self an effects rack no smaller than a three-story apartment block with parking out back. You'll also recall his Goliath d'Electronica was a) cool, and b) ridiculous. We've come a long way since making Roxanne sexy. Line 6's PODxt crams Roxanne into a toaster and leaves room for all her friends.

There was really only one thing left to do to the Nintendo DS to make it even more appealing than its multi-million sales stats suggest: Make it cool.

As said in the movie Robots, "see a need, fill a need," and that's exactly what Griffin did with iTrip for PlayStation Portable.

Creative Lab's 30GB Zen Vision:M multimedia player does pretty much everything a video iPod does, does it well, and then it does a little more. And it comes in a variety of fruity flavors. White, even.

Whether you're a full-fledged gaming geek or just aspiring to be one, a total gearhead or just technologically hip, it's cool. Get the gear that says as much courtesy of the fine folks at SplitReason.

Just as Apple sets the bar for MP3-playability to go with the iPod Mini, Archos walks in and raises that bar with the Archos Gmini 220.