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Song Capacity 2,000 Picture Capacity 25,000 Video Capacity 25 hours Available Colors blue, black, red, pink MSRP $149.99

The Skinny: Big M retools its personal media player for the upcoming holiday season, throwing nearly everything but Bill Gates into the package.

The Good: It's Web 2.0 time, and in this worldwide web of wonderment, there's more to be done on the Internet than checking your plummeting stocks. The Zune v3 packs an FM tuner that not only allows you to magically listen to the greatest innovation of the 19th century, you can purchase whatever track is playing at the time wirelessly from your player. If you live in Futtbuck, TN, the tracks are added to a queue for download later. A simple rectangular design with slightly rounded corders, the Zune fits into your palm quite well, like a Hershey's Skor bar that never melts. Mmmmmm, delicious bars of Skor.

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Hedge fund still hammering? Time to celebrate by hopping on Denver-based Ecosse Moto Works’ Titanium Series Supercharged Edition. For the price of a Lamborghini Gallardo (plus or minus a month’s worth of mani­cures), this sweet $230,000 superbike delivers a hand-built titanium frame, a supercharged billet aluminum engine, and enough bespoke details to reduce a billionaire to tears. Tossed into the high-tech mix of carbon fiber and aerospace aluminum are old-school touches like hand-painted pinstriping and metal surfaces polished to a velvety sheen. But forget all the museum-worthy minutiae; this baby’s got the subtlety of a Bunker Buster, and the power to cause about as much damage.

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Which flat-screen HDTV is right for your living room? Miracle at St. Anna director Spike Lee tests the best.

CINEPHILE
Pioneer Elite Kuro HDTV PRO-111FD 50-inch Plasma $5,000
The Lowdown: Home theater obsessives swear by Pioneer’s best sets, which for years have produced deeper blacks than anybody else’s in the game. Well, hold your Criterion Collection—the new ’08 models make darks five times dark­er. An “optimum mode” uses light and sound sensors to automatically calibrate the brightness level and ambient light color in your porno lair, er, home theater.
Spike’s Take: “It’s not a scientific test, but obviously this set is gorgeous. Everybody knows about Pioneer Kuros. I have two of ’em in my offices.”

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Featherweight camp gear for climbing high without breaking your back.

The Perfect Pitch
At 30.5 square feet, the Marmot Aura Tent sleeps two and sits four comfortably yet weighs barely four pounds. The secret? Smartly angled, offset DAC aluminum poles—15 percent lighter than traditional ones—that raise the roof, Arsenio style, to increase head space. And a mesh canopy lets you soak up the sun while your significant other hunts and gathers. $299, marmot.com

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Price: $299

THE SKINNY
After 10 whole months of banging on those old Rock Band drums, it's time to upgrade your skins. There's no better time to do that than with Rock Band 2 now on store shelves and there's no better way to do that than with the Ion Drum Rocker.

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