Lust - As soon as I saw the Dell Digital Audio Receiver I knew it was exactly what I needed! About half as big again as a car hi-fi this small but perfectly formed box of tricks is the answer to a question I've had for sometime - How can I play my music collection on my PC through my system in the AV room (without having a PC in there!)...

In a professional capacity, I've been playing with WAP on and off for the last 12 months. For those people who have been shut in a dark room for the last 2 years, WAP was conceived as a low-bandwidth way for people to access the Internet via mobile devices such as mobile phones. I think I'm safe in saying that it hasn't exactly taken off in the way the designers planned. A year ago, it was being pushed as "the next big thing", however it soon became apparent that the limitations of viewing Internet information on a screen not much bigger than a box of matches wasn't what many people wanted...

As I mentioned in my Jornada review, one of the reasons I liked my old Psion was the fact that it had a built-in keyboard. Character recognition is fine for making the odd note, or entering a sentence or two in an e-mail but good as it is, it can get tedious after 20 minutes or so. This is where the Stowaway keyboard comes in...

My experience is that PDA users are as loyal to particular brand of PDA as the Windows vs. Linux people, the PCs vs. Macs people, and the old Atari vs. Amiga wars.

Because of that, I'm going to try to stay clear of singing the praises of Pocket PC over Psions or Palms, or any other type of PDA. All I will say on the matter is that I've been a Psion 5 user for a number of years, and although I still use, and like my Psion, I find that it's inclusion of a keyboard makes it just that bit too big to carry around on a daily basis...

This One For All 4300 universal IR remote controller contains the X10 codes to work with the Powerhouse IR controller. It can control up to 6 devices and is upgradeable over the phone...

Wooho! Beam me up Scotty! I think these pictures speak for themselves. This is one awesome remote. You can control up to 10 different devices with this one. It has 64K of memory on board (remember when that would have been a PC!). The unit comes pre-programmed with the Philips remote tables but it is primarily a learning unit...

Now here's a new product - in fact it's so new that the serial number on my review sample was 00003. The "P.C. Remote" is hardware/software solution, from Scottish firm Concept UK, that turns your PC into a learning IR universal remote...