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UNDER TENS

ACCELERATOR PC TRAINER PLUS $79 www.FAO.COM

This super-slim faux laptop sharpens foreign language, grammar, spelling, math, logic and keyboarding skills. It includes a music composing program and high-resolution LCD screen.

DORA QUILTED LARGE BACKPACK $17 www.AMAZON.COM

Dora the Explorer’s quilted backpack is a comfortable full-size backpack for five- to seven-year-old girls, with mesh side pockets, a locker loop, adjustable padded shoulder straps and water bottle.

TWEENS

TI-89 TITANIUM GRAPHING CALCULATOR $150 www.EDUCATION.TI.COM

Texas Instruments’ powerful graphing calculator prepares students for advanced math classes, offering 3D graphing, a USB port for data transfer and three times the data storage of the standard TI-89.

iQUEST $50 www.TOYSRUS.COM

iQuest is a game-based system that quizzes reading comprehension. Included is one cartridge of educational software, an address book, dictionary, calculator and the option of downloading questions from textbooks.

TEENS TO ADULTS

HIGH SIERRA LOOP BACKPACK $40 www.EBAGS.COM

This backpack is designed for young people toting technology. It has a CD-player pocket with headphone port, mesh shoulder bags, a cell phone pocket and two side pockets for water bottles.

PHILIPS PSS110 $150 www.PHILIPS.COM

This tiny MP3 boombox comes equipped with an alarm clock, perfect for a dorm room or bedroom. The PSS100 stores 256MB of music and, best of all, blasts XSL Acoustics equivalent to speakers twice its size.

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