This fantastic little MP3 player isn't shaped like an audiocassette just to pay homage to last century's music format -- it actually allows for MP3 playback on any cassette deck! How cool is that?

For the recreational user, Two-Way Communicators using the dedicated and regulated UHF airwave frequencies known as the Family Radio Service (FRS) have all but replaced the antediluvian "Citizen's Band" ("CB") and the "Walkie Talkie."

While I've never enjoy listening to this new whipper-snapper music, this rip-hopped re-mixed musical menagerie of neo-disco DJ hipstuff, I just realized that's it's actually fun to make. With Apzu's new Digital Mix Master (DM2) plugged into my PC, I'm a veritable dance party music machine (with no dancers to be found).

Remember when tape decks and then dual-tape decks made every music lover a potential pirate? These days, CDs are the preferred medium and making copies of them is vaguely legit if you call the copy a "backup." That settled; go snag Philips' CDR775BK CD recorder, a dual-disc CD deck bringing high-speed recording, hard-wired convenience and regular music loving loveliness to a new level of affordability.