NBC TODAY: Small Tech

Not all great things come in big packages. Today Show tech editor Corey Greenberg shows us some of the best little electronic gifts of the season.




Pioneer DV-444 DVD Player
This is the slimmest, most low-profile DVD player at less than 2 inches high, so it looks very stylish and more importantly, fits where full-sized DVD players don't. The Pioneer DV-444 is a true high-end DVD player with built-in line doubling, progressive video output for flicker-free, film-like image quality, and 24-bit/96kHz digital to analog converters for audiophile quality analog sound. My first choice in this very competitive price category. $449. www.pioneerelectronics.com




Compaq iPaq PM1 MP3 Player
This is one of the new MP3 players which plays mini 3-inch CD-Rs with MP3 files burned on them. The blank mini CDs are available for under a buck apiece. Up to 6 hours of music burned to disk in MP3 audio format. The iPaq PM1 is a very small and very cool MP3 player. $99. www.compaq.com




HP Photosmart 100 Mini Photo Printer
This tiny handheld photo printer does high quality borderless 4 x 6-inch photo prints. Convenient direct printing from your digital camera's memory card with no PC required. $179. www.hp.com




PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas
A tiny digital chip the size and thickness of a postage stamp that holds the entire Rand McNally Road Atlas for the new generation Palm family. It's the atlas that can't get torn and tattered. The PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas covers 640,000 miles of U.S. road. Search for gas, food, lodging and ATMs at interstate exits or find shopping, attractions and national parks. Covers major roads in the 48 contiguous states. $40. www.randmcnally.com




Palm Handhelds
The Palm electronic organizer is still the easiest most efficient handheld on the market. With over 68% of the worldwide market share, Palm continues to lead the handheld industry. New to Palm this year is its expansion architecture. The expansion card slot (DUBBED SD) on Palm's newest handhelds is based on an open standard supported by an association of more than 300 leading manufacturers, including Panasonic, Kodak, Sharp, JVC and Motorola. These manufacturers are committed to creating new hardware and software solutions that can integrate with a Palm handheld through its expansion slot and the Palm Universal Connector. With the latest Palms, users can add books, maps, memory expansion even video tiles to their handhelds, piggy bank style without synchronizing with a PC.

Palm has some special holiday promotions. With the purchase of a Palm m125, m500 or m505 handheld, shoppers can mail in for a free 16 MB Panasonic Secure Digital (SD) expansion card, and $250 worth of coupons for additional expansion products. www.palm.com




Tiger Electronics Robo Baby
Cute little scary as all hell robot baby toy from the makers of Poo-Chi and i-Cybie robot dogs. Robo is a blue-skinned "baby" that's sure to put any unnerved young couple off having kids for at least a few years. Is it wrong to want to physically harm a baby? Not if it's Robo Baby! Catch a glimpse of a terrifying post-apocalyptic future where man can no longer seed his own race and must resort to crude mechanical offspring to numb the pain of slow extinction. Holidays have never been so joyous! Requires 3 AAA batteries (not included). www.tigertoys.com




Personalized Action Figures
For $500 you can have a personal action figure made of yourself or anyone you know at FAO Schwarz. The process takes about six to eight weeks. www.fao.com