Hot Gifts for the Holidays

Get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping with some of the hottest gifts this holiday season.

Mini Cartoon Cartridges for GameBoy Owners
For the over 24-million Nintendo GameBoy Advance owners, a company called Majesco just introduced a product that converts the GameBoy Advance into a personal video player. Its new GameBoy Advance Video mini cartridges make great stocking stuffers. Each cartridge holds 45-minutes of cartoons complete with on screen controls (FF, Rewind, etc.) with a library of content from the likes of Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and more. With big-name titles like Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer Yu Gi Oh! and more, the Mini Cartridges are sure to keep the kids entertained on the long trip back from Grandmas. Best of al they sell for only $20; www.majescogames.com

Fast Action Video Games for Teens
For teens and young adults, Activison’s Spiderman II and X-Men Legends are two of the most anticipated movie–related action games to hit the market. Spidey II has a brand new exclusive mission in a realistic New York back drop with an awesome sound track while X-men (narrated by Patrick Stewart) is action all the way. Both are available on every game format. $50; www.activision.com

Jura Capresso IMPRESSA S9
Best in its class – the IMPRESSA S9 is the bronze luxury edition of the Jura Capresso line of super automatic coffee and espresso centers. With the push of a button it grinds, tamps, brews and self-cleans in less than a minute. Automatically produces perfect espressos, cappuccinos, lattes and full size cups of pressure-brewed coffee cup-by-cup. The S9 is the first to offer two advanced frothing options – traditional barista wand and the frothXpress PLUS system. $2,200. Jura Capresso offers fully automatic coffee and espresso centers ranging from $999 to $3,999. www.capresso.com

Satellite Radio for the Sports Fan
The latest to bring game coverage to the tailgater from the parking lot to the stadium is the Sirius Sportster. The Sportster was designed to enhance Sirius’ exclusive broadcast of NFL games, and features a Game Alert Prompt that lets you know when your favorite team is playing, and a Game Zone that lists every sport program on the air. The Sportster head unit allows you to connect with optional docking stations ($50) for the car, home, boat or a boom box, making it the most portable of Sirius devices. Sirius Satellite Radio features 65-commercial free music channels and 50 news, sports, talk. $100. Service $12/mo; www.sirius.com

Money Saving Phone
Stay in touch and save money too long after the holiday get together with the gift of an internet telephone. Any long distance family or college kids or bicoastal broods can benefit from this new low cost technology. AT&T is one of the first major carriers to embrace broadband phone service. All you need is a high speed modem and you can keep your own phone number and literally cut your long distance phone bills in half with unlimited nationwide and Canada calling for under $30/month. AT&T just announced retail partnerships with almost every major electronics retailer... Installation is simple, just plug phone into your cable modem or DSL and its ready to work. www.usa.att.com/callvantage/home.jsp