Get some exercise and human interaction with Wii

18.12.2006
Dreaming of a rad Christmas

It's small, it's red and it epitomizes radical cool: it's the U2-sponsored, Santa-red special edition iPod. It's also the nearest thing to the tech toy of Christmas 2006 we've got.

Here at E-tales we like it very much. And we like the US$10 per iPod that will go to the Global Fund, which is helping fight AIDS in Africa. At $349 and $449 (for the 4G byte and 8G byte versions, respectively), we did wonder why not more charity dollars...but we won't go there.

Last year was the Year of the Robot, with cute robot dinosaurs, etcetera. This year hasn't produced a punchy tech toy, although we reckon the latest version of Buzz will hit the spot for family fun, as should SingStar's Legends ' for all those missed-out songsters and air guitarists.

wii wii wii all the way home...

And more fun again, especially as it gets players off the couch, will be the Nintendo Co. Ltd. Wii. Sort of gaming for the rest of us ' i.e., those who don't want to spend hours in the bedroom honing their gaming trigger finger.