Once you've designed the labels, you can hook the device to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port on a Windows or Mac computer and "print" them out.

The blue label maker comes with a USB cable, a tape cartridge and an AC adapter.

And because the last thing you need is another gadget on your desk, its front doubles as a frame.

Information: www.brother.com

Aiwa car stereo plays new formats

A new car stereo from Aiwa gives digital music fans another way to take their favorite songs on the road. Besides playing traditional music CDs, the $350 Aiwa CDC-MA01 can play discs containing MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) files.

And because a disc can hold 20 hours of CD-quality tunes in the compressed WMA format, drivers can easily cruise from New York to Atlanta without having to put in a new disc.

Like other Aiwa car stereos, this model features a front-panel input jack that lets you plug in and listen to other portable devices through your car's speakers.

The unit also comes with a CD changer control, a multi-colored liquid crystal display (LCD) and a wireless steering wheel remote control.

Information: www.aiwa.com

PC lets you record home movies to DVD

Looking for a way to record home movies onto DVD? The $1,999 HP Pavilion 9995 Home PC comes with a DVD+RW drive that can help you do just that. The PC's multimedia drive gives you a way to record digital video to DVD, back up personal data from a hard drive, burn and mix music onto a CD and transfer videotapes to DVD.

It sports a Pentium 4 2.0-gigahertz processor, 512 megabytes of memory, an 80-gigabyte hard disk drive and an nVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 graphics card with 64 megabytes of video memory.

It also has one IEEE-1394 (FireWire), one serial and two Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports in front with more IEEE-1394 and USB ports on the back.

Information: hp.com

MiniDisc recorders let you rip faster

Looking for a faster and cheaper way to enjoy recorded digital tunes on the go? How about giving Sony's new line of Net MD Walkman player/recorders a listen? Sony claims that with a direct USB connection, 80 minutes of music can be transferred from the PC to a MiniDisc, or MD, in under three minutes.

Plus, a new QuickRIP CD dubbing application lets you transfer CD music to MDs without having to first store them onto your hard drive. Like MP3 players, the MD players can play music recorded in a variety of formats. All three new MD recorders are compatible with Windows computers and come with OpenMG Juke-box software, a blank 80-minute disc and a USB cable.

Information: sonystyle.com

Karaoke machine for budding Britneys

American Girl is best known for its dolls and historical books based on fictional heroines from the past. But the company also has a modern side that caters to girls' tech tastes. For young pop singers, it makes the Chick-a-Boom Box, a $100 portable karaoke machine. The purple boom box sports a top-loading CD player that can be programmed to play 19 tracks in any order, a plug-in microphone, a cassette player and recorder, and AC/DC dual power cord. Unlike some karaoke players, this one can't display lyrics on a television screen or monitor.

For would-be directors, American Girl sells the Shooting Star Digital Movie Kit, which includes an Intel digital video camera for Windows PCs, a director's book written from a girl's perspective, a tech tote, and more.

Information: americangirl.com