If you are hunting around for a new PDA, it might be worth considering Fujitsu Siemens' first handheld with integrated GPS functionality. The Pocket LOOX N500 and Pocket LOOX N520 come with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Premium Edition, 128Mb flash memory, an MP3 player plus Navigon MobileNavigator 5 as an option.

The new Pocket LOOX models are amongst the first on the market with an integrated antenna for GPS functionality. In addition, the Pocket LOOX N520 is equipped with Wi-Fi certified wireless LAN to keep you in touch almost anywhere.

Both handhelds have a neat slim-line design and are available now from around £239 and £259 respectively (excluding VAT).

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We've already featured the Suunto x9i, claimed to be the smallest and lightest wristop computer with GPS. But for the serious sportsman or woman, how about the Suunto t6 wristop computer watch, which tells you, with laboratory accuracy, exactly how hard you should be exercising to yield maximum results without wasting any effort.

Incorporating a watch, chronometer with stopwatch, lap and interval timer; altimeter, thermometer and barometer, as well as heart-rate monitor, the t6 measures the varying times between each heartbeat, rather then taking a session average as do most heart-rate monitors. This translates into an EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) reading - the ultimate measure of training effect.

By demonstrating how hard you have worked, and how much harder you could be working, it can prevent you under or over-training and thus wasting time and energy, or risking injury.

For further information visit www.suuntot6.com

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The humble TV - often to blame when it comes to piling on the pounds. Well, now it's making amends and offering to play a little table tennis with you.

TV Ping Pong is exactly that - no partner or indeed table required. Grab hold of the paddle, plug the controller into your TV and press start for some sporting action. Your bat senses your hand motions and sends your shot back to your TV opponent. Once you master the basics, you can go up through three difficulty levels and four opponents.

Available from retailers throughout the US for less than $20.

Via New Launches

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Korean company EZAV has released the Pebble, a compact and rather cool pendant MP3 player.

Ok, the Pebble will not pass as a piece of jewellery when you're out and about, but it does look rather stylish when worn around the neck. Despite its size, the player has a fairly easy to read display, showing track information and battery life. It even has an FM tuner and voice recorder built into it and can play WMA and ASF files along with MP3.

It connects to your PC via USB, supports multiple languages and is available in 512MB and 1GB and three different colors.

No UK launch as yet, but the Pebble does retail overseas from around $125.

Via New Launches

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The first hard disk phone to hit Europe is a goodie. The Samsung SGH-i300 is not too big, performs the basics well, features a 1.3 mega pixel camera and has tons of room (well three Gigabytes to be precise) for your music. Shame Samsung didn't add a standard USB connector though or bundle it with some decent earphones.

Ok, so much of what is offer at Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco isn't great quality, but £20 for a DVD player and £80 for a five mega pixel snapper. I'll take four of each.

In the year in which GPS went mainstream Navman is still out in front. Its top-end iCN550 is still the best system available thanks to superb user interface excellent quality maps and live traffic updates via FM.

ROK is building for its US launch at CES next week. So far it has a great track record in its home UK market by being first with TV programmes/movies on memory cards for mobiles and handhelds and rolling out a TV services for GPRS phones. A company to watch.

Ok, so the Canon EOS 350D has its fans and the Nikon D70 is obviously a more advanced camera, but for causal snapper looking to take the next big step in digital photography the Nikon D50 is unbeatable. A dream to use it takes brilliant automated pictures, yet invites the user to experiment with manual and creative settings. It isn't too pricey either.

A much better bet than a digital radio for Sky users, the Gnome let its owner wirelessly stream radio stations, music channels and more from their Sky box to an odd triangular little device which can be sited anywhere in the home. It isn't too expensive either. Can't wait for the version which streams video as well as audio. Go on Sky - you know how much we want it.

Until we get to see the new HD-friendly Sky+ the Telewest TVDrive is our favourite hard disk video recorder. It has all you'd expect including a 160 Gigabyte hard drive and trick play facilities, plus a few bonuses such as three tuners (so you can record two programmes while watching a third) and picture in picture on the menu screen. Compatibility with the video on demand Teleport system, which includes the odd bit of HDTV, is the icing on the cake.

Sure we might have had a real pop at Oakley's Thump shades with their built-in MP3 player, but its collaboration with Motorola, the Razrwire, is a real winner. Wave goodbye to all those hideous looking Bluetooth headsets as these shades come with a miniature Bluetooth adaptor that clings on to their frame so with one click you can make and take voice calls. They are sure to provide the template for Bluetooth headsets in the future so expect to see snap-on wireless models for all kinds of sunglasses in the stores by next summer.

Many business professionals and students are turning to digital voice recorders to increase productivity. If that's you, it might be worth checking out the stylish Olympus WS range - voice recorders with music playback and mass data-storage.

The only difference between the three models in the WS series is memory size and the colour. All offer direct USB connection to PC or Mac, a high quality WMA/MP3 music playback function, four recording qualities for voice files, five folders for file management and variable speed playback.

These lightweight recorders are available now from around £100. For more information visit www.olympus.co.uk

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Fancy a bit of peace and quiet in your home or office? You could soothe your nerves by replacing your PC case with a new one - like the environmentally friendly Antec P150.

This case has "sound-deadening" side and top panels to reduce noise. The integrated 430-Watt high efficiency power supply operates cleaner, cooler and quieter than standard PC power supplies - so you're doing that little bit for the environment too. It also has an advanced cable management to reduce system clutter and improve internal airflow. The Antec case covers the basics too, with four removable HDD bays, two USB, firewire and i.Link ports. And it looks good, with a white and brushed aluminum finish.

Find out more at www.antec.com.

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The top-end camera phone the N90 and hard disk music playing N91 might have grabbed the headlines, but as innovative as they are both phones are a little too chunky for our tastes. Nokia did however get it spot on with the N70, a classic chocolate bar style handset complete with 3G facilities.

It has plenty of excellent features including a two mega pixel camera, solid web browser etc and images from Sky and Voda's TV service looks great on its fabulous screen. It is available on pretty much every 3G network too. If you don't fancy the Sharp 903 this is the phone to buy.

In our books the Sharp/Voda 903 is phone of the year mainly for its superb three mega pixel camera which takes images that really are something special. It could do with a decent web browser though. It'll be interesting to see if we get a version with a five mega pixel snapper this year.

We have been banging on about Bluetooth headphones for music players for nearly two years now, so good to see that Plantronics, and rivals Logitech, finally delivered the goods in 2005. They might not be the last word in sound quality, but the £100-ish Pulsar 590a are very cool, very simple to use and obviously cut out when your get a call on your mobile.

Over the next few days we are going to highlight a few gadgets, apps and websites that we rate as the very best of 2005. We kick off with possibly the coolest mobile phone app of the year - Spinvox

Why is it so cool? Well listening to your mobile phone messages is oh so dull. Fortunately Spinvox delivered a way of having all your voice messages transcribed and sent to you as text messages. Very clever and yes it does text your swear words too.

Once it was a small metal disc with "Fido" and its address engraved onto it. Then technology stepped in and we "chipped" our dogs. Now, strangely, we have the Top Tag Pet ID - a USB thumb drive that combines the old discs and new technology to create something seemingly a bit pointless.

The USB drive contains vital information about your pet, but the person finding the dog would have to know how to plug it into a PC. The Top Tag stores details on diet, behaviour, medical history - even burial instructions, which can be viewed and edited on any PC from Windows 2000 onwards.

It's all very admirable, but what happens when your lost dog takes a long swim on his travels?

Via Engadget

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So, you've got a new iPod for Christmas. Now you can put it to use to fight that seasonal bulge. Audible.co.uk has released several new fitness, dieting, detox and self-help audiobook programmes that you can download and listen to on an iPod or other digital audio player.

If you've overdone it this year, why not make amends by downloading 'Lose Weight Now'. Or of you're already considering that new year's resolution, 'Stop Smoking Forever'. You can even pick up fitness audiobooks, some of which are like having a personal trainer talk you through your exercise routines!

Sales of digital audiobooks doubled in 2005. Unsurprisingly, Erotica and comedy are the two biggest selling categories and there's no surprise with the biggest selling title of 2005 either - a digital audio version of 'The Da Vinci Code'.

Find out more at www.audible.co.uk

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