There are some people for whom the whole touchscreen experience will never work. They find it difficult to type, navigate or interact on the shiny surfaces…for these folk nothing will ever completely replace the joy and convenience of a really tactile keypad. We’re looking at you specifically Blackberry users, but there are more out there…hiding.

Everyone wants to be cool, right? Like Top Gun cool. So it’s hardly surprising that the gadget makers spend so much time trying to fulfill our fantasies by producing stuff which a few years ago would be firmly in the science fiction category. And sometimes, the gear is actually not bad, even by Hollywood standards.

It’s a sad sign of the times when you notice just how much time we spend trying to keep all our devices charged up and ready to go. In fact it’s actually quite embarrassing, and sometimes feels like I’m actually doing a full time job running around grabbing cables, adapters, power leads and the rest. A sort of demeaning battery slavery. Surely gadgets are there to serve us, not the other way round?

Everyone loves to make fun of people wearing headsets in their ear. It’s got to the stage where it’s now automatically associated with being uncool, thanks to the remorseless mockery that Hollywood has been dishing out over the years in movies. It must be driving the marketing suits mad.