This month, all sorts of lucky boys and girls are sporting shiny new electronic doodads, freshly delivered from Santa and other thoughtful gift-givers. It’s good timing: A hot-pink Motorola RAZR or aquamarine laptop does much to cut through the gray midwinter cloud cover, not to mention spruce up many a gloomy coffeehouse interior. In fact, around these parts, tech accessories are one of the few acceptable ways to incorporate fluorescents this time of year—especially if you’re in possession of a Y chromosome. Cell phones and iPods are only the most common of these gizmos; clothing and accessories designers have also devised a crop of stylish new ways to ferry—and flaunt—these devices. Somewhere deep in our cargo pants are additional treasures: pocket shooters (a.k.a. super- skinny digital cameras) in bright metallic hues, even USB drives encrusted with Swarovski crystals. Who knew gadgets could be so decadent?

See Peripa-tech slideshow featured in the left column.