The Philips Docking Entertainment System DC570 lets you enjoy iPod music out loud with a 2.1 Hi-Fi sound system, sleek tower speakers and built-in subwoofer. In USB Direct mode you can select and play back tunes on any USB device. And the Digital Sound Control let you select pre-set the equaliser for any kind of music. You'll be paying around Bt9,000 for this baby.

THEATRE IN A POCKET

 Light at less than two kilograms and amiably portable, the Acer TravelMate 6293 beams content out from a 12.1-wide screen. It's powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 processor running 2.53 GHz, and is equipped with two gigabytes of working memory and 250GB of hard-disk storage.

 Its wireless LAN adapter supports the new Draft-N protocol, which has greater range of connection. You get an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD that shares the RAM for video memory. The TravelMate 6293 selling for around Bt43,000.

CAR'S BIRTHDAY COMING UP?

 Tickle your vehicle's dashboard with the DEH-4150SD from Pioneer. Pop in a CD or an SD card full of songs or link it up to a USB drive.

 The unit is also designed to support direct connection with an iPhone or iPod via the USB port, and gets along fine with WMA, AAC and WAV formats. It has four channels of 50 watts each. Until May 9 you can get the device for Bt6,950.

CALL, WATCH, TAKE PICTURES TOO

 The phoneOne M306 is a highly affordable multimedia phone from AIS. It's a tri-band phone, supporting GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz, and has a two-inch screen with 176-by-220-pixel resolution.

 It supports MP3 audio and MP4 video formats and, best of all, it can function as a Web camera. The suggested retail price is Bt3,450.

YOU'RE FACING THE BEST

 New from Canon, the IXUS 980IX is a 14.7-megapixel digital camera bearing the company's advanced face-detection technology, able to spot a friendly mug at most angles.

 It also has advanced motion detection and Servo AF, which lets you shoot continuously. To top it off, its Intelligent Contrast Correction can automatically improves image quality in high-contrast environment.

 The camera has 3.7x optical zoom, optical image stabiliser and a 2.5-inch LCD. It's available in black, silver and red at about Bt15,900.