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TUNES WITHOUT BORDERS Bored with your local AM and FM radio stations? Soon you may have 100 new options. Pioneer presented its concept of a car radio tuned to XM, a 100-channel, national, satellite, subscription-only radio service due to debut later this year. Nicest touch: a text display identifying the upcoming song.
KITCHEN NET Next time you have an epicurious.com emergency, CMi Worldwide hopes you'll reach for its iCEBOX, a 9-in. TV with Web access, e-mail, an audio and video CD drive (but no DVD player) and spillproof wireless keyboard. The $500 unit, due out in March, only works with the company's own $20-per-month Internet service--a drawback for those already online with another service. Designed specifically for the kitchen--a bracket, sold separately, makes it a space saver--the iCEBOX can do something few other info appliances can: connect to closed-circuit cameras for monitoring the back porch or the baby's room while you slave away at that stove.
--By Maryanne Murray Buechner/Las Vegas and Owen Thomas/San Francisco