1. Helio Stores: Now With More Tentacles! The design for Helio's new stores look modern, clean, and pristine: But is that a cephalopod lurking in the corner?

2. Portable Sirius Stiletto 100 Receiver/Player Confirmed. Despite Sirius's efforts to keep this news under wraps, the Stiletto has been outed.

3. 10 Strangest Back-to-School Gadgets & Gear. We found ten of the oddest gizmos out there, for all the weird kids going back to school. (Can you guess what that is, at right?)

4. The Firefly: A Camping Essential. It's a lid with embedded LEDs that fits on wide-mouth jars; simple but very covetable!

5. Uptown Clutch: Carry Your iPod nano in Style. Classy! A posh leather wallet that carries and protects your iPod nano (1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes), along with money, credit cards...anything you can squeeze in.

Honorable mention: Costa Living: Guns, Garmin, and the Open Road. Dan Costa's column this week details the ups, downs, and sideways moves of a roadtrip taken with the help of the Garmin nuvi GPS system.