Viewsonic
N4060W
40-inch LCD: $2,299
www.viewsonic.com

At the center of a home theater or as the focus of an in-store display, Viewsonic's 40" widescreen HDTV is a great way to attract attention. Resolutions all the way up to 1360x768 deliver crisp text when you connect to a PC, while 1080i input support accommodates the best HD content currently available. The set's inputs span analog RGB to HDMI all the way down to composite, component, and S-Video. Although the LCD is very large, it boasts an 8ms response time—faster than many desktop models and ample for fast-paced video.

Panel specifications aside (the N4060W's other speeds and feeds are equally impressive), be clear that the display is compatible with HDCP, which means it'll work at full resolution once Vista emerges and imposes digital rights management restrictions on high-def content. Included speakers, an optional stand, and a reasonable price tag spice things up a bit.

Trend Micro
InterScan VirusWall 6: $1,545
www.trendmicro.com

Businesses may choose to head off viruses at any number of points or several points simultaneously. Most deploy anti-virus software at the desktop level to start, which helps protect against any infected media an employee might introduce unknowingly. Servers generally receive treatment, as well, if only because they have to be on and healthy 24x7. However, businesses looking to consolidate control might want to invest in a gateway solution such as Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall 6.

Perhaps most appropriate for organizations with many services behind a firewall, InterScan VirusWall serves to protect against viruses, spyware, email spam, and phishing attempts. URL filtering and content blocking also allows administrators to define restricted zones. Productivity should certainly improve once employees realize they can't access forbidden sites.

Administration is simplified through a single Web-based console. Moreover, VirusWall 6 works with existing firewall and VPN solutions, making deployment more about cooperative prevention and less about interoperability woes.

Wasp
CountIt Combo Pack
with WDT2200: $999
www.waspbarcode.com

Customers who use Microsoft's Excel or Intuit's QuickBooks to track inventory should be interested in Wasp's CountIt software package, which is able to collect inventory data from one of those two programs, send the data to a bundled WDT2200 barcode scanner, compare physical inventory data to the expected levels, and send the information back. Counting consequently takes hours instead of days.

Perhaps the most attractive draw to CountIt is that it adds to software your customers already know. The only variable that changes is accuracy. Customers not yet barcoding inventory stand to improve efficiency even more through the addition of a Wasp Labeler, capable of connecting to existing databases and creating personalized inventory labels.

Wasp's WDT2200 data terminal is the key to interfacing with CountIt. Powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, built to withstand 1.5-meter free-falls, and weighing less than 250g, it's plenty durable. Moreover, a 26-key pad help make manual data entry easy.

Samsung
Q1 Ultra Mobile PC: $1,099
www.samsung.com

The ultra-mobile PC concept isn't new; however, Samsung's Q1 UMPC is the first specimen with enough horsepower to plow through laptop workloads and a small enough footprint to hold in two hands. Armed with up to a 1.2 GHz ultra-low voltage Pentium M processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, up to 60GB of storage, Ethernet, and wireless networking, the Q1 really does exude plenty of desktop functionality. And yet it only weighs 1.7 pounds.

First-generation UMPCs have endured a fair bit of criticism over uninspiring battery life tests. However, the Q1 is rated for three hours on a standard charge and as much as 9 hours given an optional long-life power bank, so your customers should have no problem striking the right balance between mobility and longevity.

Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005 comes pre-installed, meaning the 7" WVGA display is used to navigate the operating system through a stylus. Of course, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth support pave the way for peripheral upsells.