
Gadget news
Our gadget expert, Tom Dunmore, told us about the latest techological offerings, find out more:
- best value blu-ray player is the PlayStation 3 (£300)
- Panasonic's 150in plasma won't be available until next year at the earliest and will set you back £50,000
- Sony's first OLED TV is the 3mm XEL-1 which you can pick up for $2500 in the US
- Apple's ultra-thin MacBook Air will be available in 2 weeks and costs £1200. We reviewed it on our website
- Amazon's mp3 download service and iTunes Movie Rentals will be available in the UK later this year. In the meantime, check out Âé¶¹Éç's iPlayer which now streams last week's TV direct to your web browser. www.bbc.co.uk/iPlayer
- a decent digital camera for suffers and beach bums is the £200 Olympus mju 770 SW, which is waterproof to 10m.
- you can boost your wi-fi with a wireless network extender from Belkin or Netgear, or Apple's Airport Express.
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