Saitek, best known for its gaming peripherals, has some welcome portable audio entries, too. The Saitek A-250 ($129.95 direct), for example, is a versatile one-piece dual-speaker set with a neat trick up its sleeve: It can receive music wirelessly from any Windows PC via a USB 2.4-GHz transmitter. (It also accepts line-in signals from nearly all audio devices.)

An unusual design certainly helps separate this product from the pack. The A-250 looks a bit like the head of a praying mantis, reminding us of Zorak from Space Ghost but in a high-gloss black finish (that's a fingerprint magnet). The tweeter grilles are outlined in metallic red (left) and copper (right). What makes this thing really creepy-looking, though, are the 1-inch red drivers visible beneath the grilles.

Find out more about the Saitek A-250 wireless speaker system at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1928391,00.asp.