Entertainment

Winter finally arrived to coincide with the press day for 2007 Toy Fair. Unlike Dream Toys the Toy Fair is a trade and press event to display items available for the sale period up to next Christmas.

Don't stick with supplied cables, get the most from your audio source and upgrade.

Not really toys but they both came from Dream Toys. I can see these being useful for anyone who tends to find their mind can’t function as quickly as it used to. Of course it can help children as well but how will you bribe them to use it? Still what better products to cure those New Year hangovers.

Shure E2 headphones (long term test)....get close and personal in your listening experience.

Grado SR60 headphones...love the sounds, but what about the look!!!!

Audio output is often a neglected aspect with a computer purchase which opens the door for considering a dedicated speaker set.

Two more offerings that I first saw at the recent Dream Toys event, one that might temp the older users and one that could suit all the family.

A universal docking station for all iPod models (except Shuffle)

A cheaper and little less intrusive than other docks.

This is a device for recording and playing back music, video, pictures and voice. It is also an FM radio. However much as I have tried it always refuses to make the tea do the washing up or the ironing

These two items are both the biggest and the most expensive and also the noisiest of all the toys and games that I selected from this years Dream Toys event, the kids will love them.

Use any MP3 player in your car via an FM channel. Illegal (just) but worth doing.

Both of the products reviewed here are new versions of old favourites. Monopoly using a credit card rather than cash and a 1990’s version of Trivial Pursuits.

Containing features that could be described as small, fiddly, sexy and slow, this music player is also not over-endowed with storage capacity.

Say it very quietly I am looking at something that is pink, in fact worse than that it’s a series of things that are pink and at least one of them will not be able to be used behind locked doors.

A meteorite has landed preprogrammed with games that are truly out of this world, find, memorise and push the twelve buttons to control the ten different games … clear all ten games to play the final showdown.

As the prices of LCD fall the idea of picking one of the cheapest is perhaps not as stupid as it seems. A 32inch LCD TV for less than £600 and with free delivery.

Countdown was the first program on Channel 4 when it launched, now there is another quiz show on that channel that has a huge audience Drummond Park licence two versions of the game in the UK.

Continuing my series of 32 and 37inch LCD TV’s with this Digital and Analogue TV from LG, having both means PIP (Picture in Picture) can be used to show a second channel.

Here two different ways to charge your iPod – all types – and just for good measure one of the devices also allows files to be removed or added from the iPod as well.

This is the first of my follow on pieces from Dream Toys and Test Tube Alien along with Phlat Ball and a couple of different Oidz go under the microscope.

Here two gifts available from Gizoo that tell the time although neither can be said to be clocks. One an adult gift and the other very defiantly for the younger ones.

A new name to me and probably to you but Funai products are often sold under various other names, now as 2006 draws to a close they are marketing under their own name.

With Christmas now bearing down very fast all those presents for the younger – and not so – young ones are fast becoming a nightmare, for the more Gadgetly minded I hope these suggestions help.

My annual trip to the Dream Toys event found new and enhanced toys, games and gadgets for kids both big and small for Christmas and beyond.

This DAB and FM radio also features ReVu that allows what you have just heard to be replayed. It can also accept a Charge PAK meaning no more batteries to buy, or course you can also run it from the mains.

Available desk space is at a premium in my working environment yet recently I have made room for a devil of a creature.

This tiny unit is somewhat confusing as being so small the controls are multi purpose and therefore there is a learning curve. However it is more than a standard MP3 player.

Fancy a Digital TV that will fit into a pocket? Well this offering from Evesham has a seven inch screen and given the right conditions can view any UK Digital TV station.

The Sony PSP has been around for a while now. Is it still likely to be top of the Christmas list this year? Well - it's top of mine at least.