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.

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.

THQ today announced that its uDraw Gaming Tablet will be available in the US in time for this year’s holiday season. This wireless drawing system that will also be used by games from THQ is exciting news, unleashing the creative potential of gamers (and non-gamers alike) and once again thrusting the Wii into the forefront of “innovation”.

Nintendo is fond of saying, and I believe it will reiterate this morning's press conference, that the reason for its success is innovation and creativity realized in both hardware and software. There is no doubt that Microsoft's newest offering, Kinect, is also innovative. More powerful than the Wii, the new hardware device can see and hear us, permits us to control the console with voice and movement. But is that enough?

The generation that grew up on Xbox and Playstation has now grown-up and has kids. Microsoft is betting that those twenty-somethings that typified the the rock-and-roll pioneer of video gaming are now looking to play with their family. In a bold departure from the hard-core blood-and-guts b-roll that was the staple of E3 launches in the past, tonight's debut of Project Natal, now renamed Kinect, was a love fest that featured yoga and pet tigers.

It has been a long time since I got excited about a mouse...[Ed. Digression: The first time I was travelling to camp with my mother. I was 8 years old and we had just checked into the Mackinac Island Grand Hotel. My mom was taking a shower while I watched TV. Suddenly, there was a shreek...and she ran out of the bathroom clutching a towel so as not to scar me for life, screaming wildly, pursued by a little grey mouse that disappeared under the door to the room. It is hard for a battery driven mouse, however nobly designed to compete w/that memory for excitement.] This Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX does the trick.

Eye-Fi wireless SD cards for your camera are my favorites for all around use because they allow auto-upload to the web while I'm on the road. Google is selling the $70 version of the card for $50.  The catch is that the deal comes with a 200GB of storage online included in the price.  It is a good deal even if you don't want the subscription.  Sign up and then set the subscription to not renew.  You're still getting a bargain on the chip.   Note: this card doesn't handle RAW images...there is a new, more expensive pro version that does. But, if you're shooting jpgs this is a real bargain.

It is difficult to imagine where the Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive fits into the competitive world of mass storage.  Priced too high, with limited functionality and hardware that looks like it was designed in the '90's, it is a product that will be of value to an extremely small subset of users.

The idea of a scanner that can breeze through a stack of photos from the family album is very appealling. Pandigital's Photolink One-Touch Scanner promises to do just that (and without need to hook it up to a computer, no less). But, this product gets just about everything wrong; so, hold onto your hats...this is going to be a bumpy review!

Before we get to how well it works, let's focus on how it works.