Stories by: Anne B. McDonald

Even geeks and gadget fans go outside once in a while. This innovative gear will make you the envy of other campers while you're enjoying the great outdoors.

Sling Media's small Slingbox 700U won one of three Best in Show awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA).

I seldom own a book that makes my fellow geeks here at PC World go wild when I show it to them, but John Graham-Cumming has done the trick with The Geek Atlas.

Sony Ericsson introduced the Memory Stick Micro or M2 at CeBIT. It measures 0.6 by 0.5 inch and is 0.05 inch thick (or should that be thin?).

Last year's Consumer Electronics Show foretold refrigerators that would e-mail the grocery store when you ran out of milk, and a microwave that could wirelessly swap household tips with your washing machine. Intelligent appliances are back this year, as well as handheld gadgets and gizmos for a smarter home.