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.

As Forrest Gump almost said, cheap is as cheap does. Fortunately, when it comes to entertaining the kids in the back seat, cheap is all you need.

The All-In-Wonder 2006 Edition takes ATI's respectable, gamer-grade Radeon 9600 graphics card, doubles the onboard memory (now with 256 MB), includes a TV tuner and the classic, "Wonder"-ous Media Center technology, buffs it all up and puts it all-in-one. Again.

Unless you're obsessively diligent, swapping out game discs, CDs and DVDs tends to lead to scuffs, smudges and scratches on said circular storage mediums. Disc Go Technologies has a solution.

Better described as a premium pocket-entertainment center that happens to play games, Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) is also premium priced - not even worth looking at unless you're of the "disposable income" persuasion.

The third incarnation of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance line, Game Boy Micro just might be the quintessential pocket game device.