Looking for a "poor man's Blackberry"? Try the Peek, an e-mail/texting device available at Target and online for around $79. There's also a $20 monthly fee for unlimited e-mail/texting service.

If you have a teen that is eating up your wallet with texting, the Peek could present a solution. While the Peek is targeted to a younger market, Clark also thinks the device's ease of use would appeal to senior citizens.

In related news, the latest polling shows that people are generally opposed to fellow passengers using cell phones on planes. Who among us hasn't sat next to someone yapping on a handset?

Britain has come up with an interesting solution to the problem. In the U.K., all trains are required to have quiet cars where cell phone chatter and other loud noises are banned. To make sure no one violates the quiet car rule, they've put a film on the windows to blocks cell signals!