[the toy show: "As seen on port 80"]
The Toy Show will be a showcase of some of the intriguing, quirky,innovative and oddly superfluous gadgets manufactured for streaming media. Internet appliances represent a major new direction in the commercial'convergence' environment, with web-based tools being integrated into domestic home entertainment devices. The portable streaming media players, internet radio appliances, remote controlled streaming encoders, and wireless-controlled- software-tuners on show here, articulate strange and wonderful visions of a future in which internet and broadcast media mechanisms will integrate with everyday life.