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Do you NEED to be able to connect to the net always?  Do you feel funny when you aren’t near a wi-fi hotspot?  Are you outside the range of traditional ADSL and cable but have 3G cellular cover? Does your home or office need a backup broadband service for those frustrating outages?  If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions then the new Vodafone USB Stick 3G Modem may be for you.  Read on for our video, photos and full review of this mini marvel…

The new CM15Pro from Marmitek is like a CM12 on acid!  As well as the usual X10 powerline functionality the CM15 also includes a built in RF transceiver.  The unit has other significant advantages over the CM12 including a logic engine and 8 times more memory meaning it can cope with over 1,400 timers/macros compared to around 100 in the older unit...

We've always been big fans of Doug Berrett's WebGuide addin for Windows Media Center.  In 2007 Microsoft bought Dougs code and employed him.  Now they've just released WebGuide for Windows Home Server... 

Lagotek will present its “HIP1 Modes” Sideshow home control gadget working on iPhone and iPod touch at the up-coming CES 2008... "The ability to run Vista Sideshow gadgets on Apple’s legendary devices to control the home was made possible by Lagotek Corporation and Ikanos Consulting Ltd. working together to merge cutting edge Vista Sideshow technologies with Apple’s famous devices for home automation use...

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve done this, but a few days ago I decided to draw up a list of my favourite technology from the last 12 months.  As I asked myself what items I had been using on a daily basis, the ones I really couldn’t live without, I came to the realisation that the top ten or more technologies I was thinking of, came from just two companies!  It probably won’t be too much of a surprise to find out who they are, but here is my shortlist for “Top Tech” in 2007…