Okay, so it’s not exactly the iPad. But if you’ve been itching to give a tablet a try without investing 500 beans, here’s a chance to get into the emerging market for just $40. The Hantech Tablo provides add-on tablet functionality for laptops, allowing users to draw, write and doodle on screen. Simply throw the receiver up on the top or side of the laptop and the pen will use infrared and ultrasonic to transmit your motion onto the screen.

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Isn’t about time that you equipped your home entertainment system with Internet streaming? Skip the excess box, and buy yourself a Blu-ray player with built-in streaming capability. The Samsung BD-P1590 features Netflix, Blockbuster, Pandora and YouTube capability in addition to 1080p video and audio. It’s also BD-Live 2.0 ready for downloadable Internet content, ringtones, games and chatting. And your DVD collection won’t go to waste, as the Samsung plays those as well (with upconversion).

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In a day and age when you can get a free camera attached to your cell phone, it’s getting more and more difficult to justify doling out dollars for a bulky standalone camera. Especially when all you really take is candid shots of your friends and golden retriever Leroy.

It’s not that you don’t want or deserve a real camera, it’s that you need to find the right deal. And that deal is going on right now. The Casio Exilim camera is a super-slim, pocket-sized camera that packs 10 megapixels, 3 x optical zoom and 4 x digital zoom. Leroy deserves the benefit of 10 megapixels.

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Yahoo and Microsoft finalized their search deal today after regulators gave the green light. The deal was okayed in both the U.S. and European Union. Originally announced last summer, the move is a strategic partnership designed to cut costs and fight the well-known market leader: Google. Google has a hold on about 70 percent of the U.S. search market and now Yahoo/Microsoft will grab most of the remaining pie. And they’re still pretty hungry.

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It looks like Google is getting serious with its social networking efforts this time around. The company announced Buzz just days ago and today it acquired Aardvark, a social networking site that allows users to search for answers to their questions within their network of contacts–as if general Internet population information wasn’t sketchy enough. According to Aardvark’s website–vark.com–ask a question, Aardvark finds the “perfect person” to answer and you get your answer within minutes. The company was founded in part by two ex-Googlers.

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What better way to memorialize the great times of the holiday season than with a digital picture frame? You know your mom or grandma would appreciate having your awkward, smiling mug greet her every morning–even if no one else on God’s green earth can understand why. Make it happen this holiday with the Kodak Easyshare W820 8-inch wireless picture frame.

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Ahhhh…another Monday in December and another promising week of holiday-season electronics deals. Today’s deal comes directly from manufacturer Lenovo. Lenovo is offering the IdeaPad S10-2 for the discounted price of $330, a nice discount off the $440 MSRP, but nothing you couldn’t find elsewhere. However, with a special coupon code (USPGREENMONDAY), customers will walk away just $280.50 lighter.

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When you’re out in no man’s land, three factors can lead to your downfall and demise: direction, weather and isolation. Getting lost and having no idea where to go is an obvious problem. A sudden thunderstorm or blizzard compounds the problem exponentially and being alone with no sign of help leaves you seriously up a creek. Time to panic.

Not if you have the Bushnell Onix 400 GPS with XM NEXRAD Weather. This handy device addresses all three issues and keeps you out of death’s grip.

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A digital camcorder for under $20? It must be Cyber Monday. The Digital Blue Flix Camcorder features VGA resolution, a 1.5-inch LCD screen and 64 MB of on-board memory. An SD expansion slot allows for up to 2GB of memory. Filming features include 4x digital zoom, 1.3MP snapshot capability and integrated mic.

While the Flix isn’t the most sophisticated camera to ever roll through the pages of GadgetCrave, it has to be the only one that can be had for $17.99. The camera offers everything you need to capture the upcoming holiday moments–whether that includes touching first Christmas morning shots or debaucherous New Year’s Eve candids. And it’s all less than a Jackson. Head over to Woot and make it happen before supplies run out.