Tuesday focus: Gadgets

Hard-core baseball fans, take note: Ambient’s Baseball ScoreCast updates scores every half inning for every Major League Baseball game.

Delivered through a wireless network, the device also provides complete standings and schedules for baseball teams, allowing you to stay on top of the game, even when you’re out of cell phone range or away from your computer. Powered by four AAA batteries, it costs about $130.

Learn more at www.ambient devices.com.

Streaming Web content: The NetGear Digital Entertainer Elite media player lets you enjoy digital media on your big-screen TV.

Designed to stream digital content wirelessly over a home network to a high-definition entertainment system, the EVA9150 model delivers high-definition videos, photos, MP3 music and recorded TV shows from a PC or from its 500-gigabyte hard drive.

It also can handle Internet content, such as YouTube video, Internet radio and Flickr photos.

The device features two USB ports that provide easy connections to digital cameras, iPods and other gadgets.

To speed up the fun, it automatically finds all digital media files on the home network and organizes them into an easy-to-navigate digital library. It costs about $400.

On the Web: www.netgear.com.

Easy dialing: With the VTech LS6225 cordless phone, you can stop squinting.

Thanks to blue backlighting on the slender handset’s LCD screen and keypad, you’ll have an easier time seeing the numbers you’re dialing and checking caller ID on incoming calls.

The DECT 6.0 cordless system from VTech also won’t interfere with your wireless Internet connection.

Priced at $55, the system features touch-sensitive controls on its base, a digital answering system, a 50-name directory and selectable ringtones. A system with two handsets costs $70 while one with three handsets is $90.

Details: www.vtech phones.com.

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