Nerve.com have a pretty-much safe for work Holiday Gift Guide. Among the experimental kitchenware and fancy pants is the Roland MC-303 - the cheap, elderly groovebox which is often reviled by right-thinking musos, not least for demeaning the heritage of the numbers 3,0 and 3. Nerve like it because Peaches and M.I.A used it; "Watch as they and their friends gaze in rapture at the manual and then reach over and push a few buttons, generating various clever, throbbing beats." It's a mark of my endless shallowness that I wanted to buy a MC303 for almost 20 seconds after reading the piece... (Yes, that's a MC505 in the picture. I guess it matched the boots better)