What It Is: A portable, one-piece wireless speaker system that blasts music from your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, MP3 player or laptop.

Who It’s For: Travelers who need need better sound quality than their tinny laptop speakers can provide, even if it’s next to the shower or on the night table, since Bluetooth’s range is about thirty feet.

Why It’s Worthy: Besides offering better sound than most laptops or phones, the Party—with its turquoise-and-white, bulbous-figure-eight-shaped body—looks stylish and solid. The battery lasts about four hours on a single charge, and pairing with Bluetooth A2DP-enabled devices is a cinch.

Our Only Complaint: You need the not-entirely-universal A2DP-Bluetooth profile on your music device for it to work. We had to install a separate Parrot Bluetooth USB dongle onto our laptop to get the music going.

Price/Where To Get It: $199; parrotshopping.com