The market may have slumped, but technology never stopped working toward cost-effectiveness. In fact, two years ago a colour bubble jet printer would not have been capable of what Canon's latest entry-level ink-spitter can do, not at this price point, anyway.

You don't have to be an expert or a pro to appreciate Kensington's Expert Mouse Pro, which isn't even a mouse in the traditional sense (fancy that).

For desktop users with too much digital information stored on too many CDs and DVDs, organizing and filing all that media can be something of a nightmare. Fortunately, KDS has a great new solution: the CD Organizer.

While a microphone for your computer can cost less than ten bucks at your local Radio Shack; you get what you pay for, and you're paying for a substandard peripheral with about as much function as Styrofoam boat anchor.

Now that digital photography is all the rage, inadvertently devastating the once-upon-a-time instant photo darling known as Polaroid, one can't forget that last millennium's imagery format is still prevalent. I mean, who doesn't have a crate full of Kodak moments up in the attic? Enter the Hewlett Packard Photo Scanner 1000, a mini scanner designed just for pictures, 4 x 6 or smaller.

While there is currently not a great many PlayStation2 games that support keyboard play, InterAct Accessories SharkBoard is still a viable purchase considering the number of other tasks it makes all the easier and more efficient - basic data and/or cheat code entry, for example (on Keyboard supported games, of course, more of which are becoming available).