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Creative Zen MuVo, 1gb MP3 player

($49.95, Wal-Mart, Coors Boulevard and I-40)

For a person who loves music and is on the go, this player really rocks. It's only one gigabyte of music, but it can store 250 songs (four-minute tunes encoded at 128kbps).

The player doubles as a one-gigabyte portable hard drive. It beats the days of floppies - are you old enough to remember them? - and is small enough to fit on a key chain.

But what really sets it apart is the voice recorder. While it won't replace a digital voice recorder, you can produce some great quality recordings if you're close enough to your subject.

Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console - Core system

($299, Wal-Mart, Coors Boulevard and I-40)

This gaming console is a great alternative to the almost-impossible-to-find Nintendo Wii. There are so many things you can do with it: download movies (you have to buy a hard drive), play old-school arcade games off Xbox Live and play hot video games like "Guitar Hero II," "Gears of War" and the upcoming smash "Halo 3."

You can also network the console to your home PC and listen to music, gaze at photos and watch stored videos (sorry, Mac owners).

It's the cheapest way into the world of high-definition gaming. Though the core system lacks a hard drive or HDMI outputs (both are standard on the $479 Xbox 360 Elite), buying a set of component cables ($39) will have you gaming in HD in no time, but you do need to buy a compatible TV or projector.