Preview: Stylish Gadgets on the Go

Cameras, music players, and DVD units will be sleeker and more portable than ever.

Small, portable, and sexy: Mobile entertainment devices these days seduce us with their looks as well as their abilities. Hot newcomers at the recent Consumer Electronics Show included Audiovox's Shuttle System, which lets you move an LCD with a built-in DVD player in desktop, car, or under-cabinet docking stations; Kodak's EasyShare-One camera and Giant's Tao MP3 player, which use Wi-Fi to transfer images or music; and Philips's Personal Sound System, a sort of miniature boom box.

Take your video everywhere: Audiovox's Shuttle System, due in March, is based on tablet-like LCD screens with built-in DVD players that you can pop in and out of a docking station set up on a desktop (shown above), in a car, or under a cabinet. Docking stations have TV and FM radio tuners. The 10.2-inch LCD (7- and 8.5-inch models are available) runs about $600; the desktop dock, $200.

Philips's Personal Sound System (due in April for $160) packages a solid-state audio player with built-in speakers in a device not much bigger than a PDA. Play MP3 or WMA music files stored on its 256MB of internal flash memory, listen to its built-in FM radio, or use it as an external speaker system (Philips says that it's far more powerful than others of its size). There's even an alarm clock.

With Giant International's Tao WiFi MP3, you can use any Wi-Fi hotspot to download tunes to the player's 20GB hard drive from subscription services that work with Microsoft's Janus copy-protection technology. The $350 digital audio player can also play FM radio and send music to FM radios in cars or stereo systems.

Can't wait to share your latest digital photo masterpiece? With Kodak's new EasyShare-One digital camera, you won't have to. The 4-megapixel, Wi-Fi-equipped device enables you to e-mail pics to friends and family directlya??no need for a PC. Due in June, the $600 camera can store up to 1500 photos and provides direct access to the company's online EasyShare Gallery.