There are lots of hard disc recorders about, some are analogue, a few are digital but this unit marketed by Evesham Technology has built in Freeview (so no other box is required) and best of all it can record two separate channels at the same time. Because of the loop through you can still watch an analogue channel at the same time.

However the main feature of this unit is that it is the first tri mode unit on sale in the UK. The tri modes are USB, Ethernet and Wireless. I have recently reviewed an inkjet printer from Canon with tri mode but this - I am told - is the first tri mode All In One. It is 45x40x21cm, while it has a paper tray it is contained within the depth so these are the maximum figures you need.

Strange how life works, no notebooks for ages then just like buses a glut. However this cannot be more different from the recently reviewed Dell offering, that was small and light, this is large and full featured. It is 35x27x3cm in overall size and weights 3kilos. The screen is 21x33cm giving the 15.4inch WXGA size that's 1280x800 resolution. It also has 128MB of dedicated video memory, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 PCI Express.

Sometimes it is hard to equate the product advertised with the one looked at. This is certainly the case here and while the differences are often small, working out 'what or why' is somewhat harder. After several requests something I saw last year arrived securely packed and well presented. All the extras in a box within a box and the notebook well protected in the bottom of the outer box.

It is 43x30x14cm add another 4cm to the middle figure when there is paper in the vertical A4 tray and add another 20cm to the 14cm height. First the printing speeds and these should not vary whichever method you choose for connection providing you have a good signal. Printing the nonsensical 200 word document in 'fast' mode produced a page that was black and far better than some other manufacturers 'draft' modes.

It comes with one of these Getting Started in 'x' languages books that do not quite say enough. I played safe and installed the software first but I think you could probably have inserted the card first.

Pure Digital have been in the forefront of DAB radio in this century. The DTM-300 is probably a design icon rather like their 'Bug' that was designed by Wayne Hemingway. Maybe it's me and it just looks stylish, I can see this unit sitting proudly in a office unit, the main feature making this suitable is it's lack of depth. It is 44cm wide, 28cm tall and only 16cm deep.

The first is GPS connection for navigation and the second has been solved by this NETGEAR® MIMO router. I have used with only limited success several modem/routers from various companies. Getting them to talk to the Internet is easy, getting the notebook to talk to the Internet without security is easy, with security is trickier, the hardest part is getting the notebook to talk to other PC's on the network and visa versa.

I wonder if any manufacturer will be brave enough to produce a camera designed for those of us who are left handed? The majority of the body is only around 3cm thick that's until the right side where another 2cm creeps in to make your grip secure for the right handed. The total dimension are 10x7.5x6.5cm and the weight is around 350grams. Let me explain the 7.

The unit is 12.5x7x2cm and weights close to 200grams. It has a nice solid feel and the screen resolution of 240x320 is clear and sharp. It is a PocketPC 2003 unit and the operating system is WinCE 4.20. You have 27.5MB of available RAM.   I found battery life a little disappointing especially when using the Marco Polo Navigation software (reviewed 10/2/06).

The Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 is not as outrageous as some non conventional designs I have used in the past. The curve places the main qwerty keys in a slight smile configuration. In fact the main area takes up little more space than a conventional offering. It is a 108 key keyboard with nine extra Internet keys at the top making it a little deeper than a standard unit.

The Ulead Video@Home is a box 13x8x2.5cm with perhaps another 4cm needed to the depth for cables. If using it with a PC or Notebook that would only require the USB lead and the aerial lead. The back also has audio in, audio out, S-Video and RCA Video sockets. However sound on PC or Notebook is carried down the USB lead and out through your standard speakers.

It is a rectangular box 17.5x12x5cm without the paper cassette inserted however with this inserted and the space required behind for the paper path during printing you need 39cm of space to use it. There is only a single button on the unit (on/off) this shows green when in use or red should you run out of paper or the dye-sub cartridge become extinguished.

The dimensions are 12x13x9cm and the 13cm depth increases by up to 4.5cm when the 28-300mm lens is fully extended. This gives 10.7 to 1 optical zoom. In the short time I have had it I have taken the opportunity to take as many images as possible and I have only scratched the surface of what this can do. There is a rather good built in flash but do not try taking images very close together when using it as it takes a while to recharge.