This is either the weirdest or smartest invention of the decade: a crank cell phone charger. When, you might wonder, might you be in a position to own a high-tech cell phone and not be able to charge it? More often than you'd think: camping, during a power outage, in a remote village in Nepal, during a moonlight sail on the Bosphorus. I'm sure you can think of more.

No one is a more rabid fan than the converted. It's been five years since my co-Aging Hipster converted me to a Mac-user and I've never looked back. If you haven't converted already, surely Windows Vista is your last straw. C'mon over to the other side.

iMac 20-inch 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

iMac Intel Core 2 Duo processor featuring widescreen display, built-in iSight and more.

Ion USB Turntable

If you're like us, somewhere in your house are cartons or stacks or shelves of good old-fashioned records. If you're also like us, your turntable landed on the curb on junk day. Or it's taking up valuable entertainment center real estate and rarely gets used.

Eureka and huzzah! This USB turntable connect to your computer and, like magic we tell you, converts your music to MP3s.

Got a kid or three in school? Did you know that you can buy both hardware and software for them at discounted educational prices? We like Campus Tech since it covers early grades as well as high school and college.

If you're one of 7 or 8% of us using Macs, there are a few great places to get new software. One of the more interesting is IUseThis. Think social networking and tagging meet download.com.