Cool new product – although probably not really useful in Sydney at this time of year – is the Slanket. This is a blanket with sleeves. With this blanket you can sit in bed, on a lounge or in a chair and read or use a video game of something like that without getting cold arms. Given the weather in Sydney at the moment I dont think it will be needed for some time. Cute design though.

PVR’s or Personal Video Recorders are becoming popular in many parts of the world. They really have not made inroads into the Australian market for some reason. PVR’s record your TV programs to a HDD automatically – rather a cool feature. The problem with almost all these units is that they will only record a single TV channel. So SnapStream have developed their own box that does 11 channels at once. This is probably a bit of overkill in the extreme… But is slightly cool.