Every once in a while a product comes along that is so cool, so sweetly designed, that it just makes my inner kid break into smiles, cracking through the hard shell that comes from too many years looking at gadgets that promise X-Wings, but deliver Jar-Jar Binks. The new, limited edition, Xbox 360 Kinect Star Wars looks like a concept prototype, but it is the most wonderful Xbox this admitted Star Wars Fan has ever seen.

Last week you heard me on SiriusXM; this week I'll be on radio shows across the nation.  Here are some of the products I'll be talking about:

I've had great success with most Seagate's portable USB drives. In the future we may store all our data in the "cloud", but for now, (particularly if you store large volumes of photos, music and movies or backup multi-gig drives) cheap, local storage is the way to go. But, what if you have an iPad or iPhone that is overflowing with content, and you just need more room? You can't plug in a hard dive and play; there is no port. Enter (at least theoretically) the Seagate GoFlex Satellite.

Spotify and Hulu, according to reports, have been caught using "indestructable" cookies to secretly spy on their users. A year ago on the Spotify Blog they were celebrating Spotify's cookies as "brilliant".

Ninety-nine dollar gadgets that require tons of cables usually don't deliver, at least not without a lot of pain. They all promise something, something sweet, but like a vampire they suck away at your life, stealing countless hours as you try, usually in vain, to make them work. Roxio's Game Capture is different. It promises to help you get a job done - get video from your Xbox 360 to your PC for capture - and it does it simply and efficiently. If you can live with the limitations of the box, accept that it does what it says and not much more, it is a cost effective, efficient device.

Dragon Age may self-identify, in name at least, as a sequel. Yet every aspect of this disappointing game feels like a throw-back to an earlier generation of less interesting, less capable games that hadn't experienced the demands, compelling story-telling, and ground breaking game play of the original Dragon Age.

The creative arc of the Dragon Age series seems to be taking its cues from the plot of Benjamin Button. Instead of maturing, each game seems to be less capable, less well executed, and less deep than the previous.

To say "Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions is the best Spider-Man game yet for Xbox 360" is to damn it with faint praise; the previous Xbox 360 titles in the franchise haven't set the bar very high. Overall, Shattered Dimensions (provided by the manufacturer for review) is a decent game containing a few moments of greatness. Unfortunately, the program suffers from many of the same problems that give the series a wash of mediocrity. Instead of pushing the boundaries of what a comic book based video game can do (as Spiderman did in print form), the designers slavishly have adhered to a predictable, thread-worn model that lacks imagination and depth.

If you have a kid in your life, you need to know about Kidlandia's extensive line-up of personalizable gifts. Posters, puzzles, placemats, wall hangings and more are just some of the colorful products that you (and your child) can customize with Kidlandia either on line or in person at the world's toy store, FAO Schawrz in Manhattan.

By Adam Weinstein, Contributing Editor

To understand how great I think the two latest installments in the Pokémon series are you need to know a little about me. 

I am child of the Pokémon era, complete with the accent mark above the “e”. When the original Pokémon games, Red & Blue, were released in the US in 1998, my 9-year old mind was blown. It seemed as if all of my friends had embarked on their very own journeys and, together, were in on something bigger than I could comprehend. When I clamored to my parents that I wanted a Gameboy and a Pokémon game of my own to play, I told them that I was feeling left out at school simply because I couldn't play. I'm not sure if I convinced them, but when they went into parent-teacher conferences and had my plight confirmed by my 4th grade professor, I too entered the world of Pokémon.

The Pokémon games were always a huge part of my childhood. To that add all of the movies, TV shows, cards, and collectables that became part of who I was in grade school, high school and, well, actually I still play the games today – two months short of college graduation. I played through the all the rehashes, the remakes of old games, and, to be honest, the lazy money-grab games that saw very few changes in the series. For me, nostalgia was definitely a factor in why I played games like Fire Red (a remake of the original Red version), Soul Silver (a remake of the later Silver version), and the like.

That being said, Pokémon Black & White far surpass the “great game if you haven't already played Pokémon” trope. This Pokémon is a big deal.

You tell me you're all backed up. Really? When was the last time? What have you done since? Have you worked on your tax return or spent a night with Quickbooks? Maybe it was the paper you worked on all night, but haven't turned in yet?

Imagine turning on your computer and hearing that dreaded clicking sound that says your computer's hard drive has crashed. All your documents are gone. Your precious music collection. Years of photographs. All gone.

Now comes the sickening feeling: what is really backed up? what have I lost?

Even if your documents were backed up, you'll still have to reload your operating system and programs and fiddle with the configuration screens (assuming you can find all the drivers). How long will it take to get your machine up and running again?

What if I told you that backing up, backup that you can count on, was easy and automatic? What if I told you that there was no reason for the pain, regret and loss that accompanies a hard drive crash?

It is hard to write about Rebit 5 without sounding like a script for an infomercial, but the truth is Rebit 5 ($39.95) is the best, easiest, and most comprehensive "belt and suspenders" backup you can get for a home PC.