Surprisingly it fits in the same space taken by my 17inch monitor in fact I have an area about 18x40cm free in front of the panel that was just not available with my monitor in place. Whereas I used my monitor at 1024x768 the panel has just the same readability at 1280x1024 and the amount of extras I can fit open on the Desktop is incredible.

MFU (Multi Function Unit) sometimes called an 'All in One' are more common with inkjet technology but there are units available using a laser and the Samsung SCX-4100 is one such offering.   It is a mono laser so all printing and copying can only achieve grey scale, however the scanning unit is colour so you can scan to a file or application on the PC and work with colour images.

It is not amazingly small or light, nor is it thin in fact by modern standards you may even call it obese. It is all but 2.5cm thick and 10.5cm tall, the width is close to 5cm. Rotate it in half and the height becomes 16.5cm. There are 14 keys plus another five and a four position wheel that controls the near 5x4cm screen that determines everything on this camera/phone.

Unlike a lot of oblong boxes that a lot of digital cameras are today this looks like a conventional film camera. It is 10x9x7.5cm maximum dimensions with the zoom lens contracted. The weight is around 400grams with everything attached.   This has a 10x optical zoom and is a 5megapixel offering. The quality of images - even in auto mode - is excellent and anyone with a little knowledge cannot fail to take great images with the DX7590.

Version 1 launched in the early summer and I now spend more time on Skype for no cost than I do using the phone. All you need is the free Skype software, download time from around one minute. Probably another minute to complete the installation and maybe as long to create a basic profile. www.skype.com To run Skype on a PC you need a microphone and some speakers.

The shape of the is distinctive, in fact I would go so far as to say unique. A little like a jug kettle, a little like those thermos type jugs that keep coffee warm inordinately but in truth nothing like either. Senseo from Philips The Senseo 'coffee pad system' to give it it's full name can produce either one or two cups of delicious coffee from 'ready' in 20 seconds.

It is 27x23x2cm yes the thickness is only 2cm, the weight is only 1.3kilos and with battery life with a reasonable screen brightness at close to 150 minutes this could well save a very expensive gym membership as current muscles may be enough to carry it around. A 31cm display is clear and bright, excellent when used with power and useable when on batteries.

This is a four ink two cartridge offering. This does mean that if you use more of one colour than the others there could still be ink left when you need to change the cartridge. However this is not really a printer for a heavy user. There is nothing wrong with it and in my tests it performed perfectly well. A 1500 word document with some coloured text was produced at 7PPM and a 200 word black text document came through at close to 12 PPM.

I have recently looked at two labellers from Brother one for the younger members and another for the office. Now how about one that is ideal for the gardener, it can be used to label seeds, pots or even shrubs in the garden as the labels are weatherproof, heat resistant, and perhaps most important fade proof.