Cadogan Guides Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches is a good example of these always-reliable guides friendly format. The book acknowledges that the travellers have moved beyond the golden hills of Tuscany west to the Bolgheri and Maremma seasides and east into the regions of equally stunning Umbria and the Marches. Its insider focus on food and wine based on a healthy appreciation of the culture gives it a mix that other guidebooks can miss.

The drawback to this approach, when coupled wi..

Jules Verne may have been on his 80-day journey around the world a lot sooner if hed used Handmarks Travel Assistant . A combination of several unique applications, Travel Assistant helps to arrange and organise your travel plans, make sense of foreign lands, and communicate with the natives.

Planning your trip is a straightforward process with the itinerary application, albeit using somewhat confusing language (for example, a vendor is never defined, and were still not sure wha..

LEGO Baby toys are designed to stimulate the body, mind and emotional skills. The Shape & Colour Sorter certainly fills its potential, as it is both brilliant and versatile. Hardwearing, with washable soft toys, it is aimed at babies of nine months and over. With each block and soft toy having a different colour and sound, the toy helps to teach colour recognition, sorting, storytelling, and stimulates social skills.

Open the door on a block and inside is a little soft animal; a round frog t..

The Rio Volt SP250 is a neat, portable digital-audio CD player which handles MP3 and WMA tracks as well as standard audio CDs. It includes an FM tuner, too. Portable MP3 players have been around for a while and CD-based Walkman-style devices much longer than that, but a player which combines the two is more of a novelty. Rio Volts SP250 is the top model in a range of digital audio players which aims to play just about anything you drop into it.

This is a versatile device. For a start, it can ..

After the monster hit that was Gran Turismo, the sequel Gran Turismo 2, has more that a mammoth task ahead of it, but surpass it does and by some distance. The two gaming discs contain an Arcade version to get you racing straight away, or the Simulation mode where you have to race for cash to buy and upgrade your cars. Realism is the core of GT2 so you really do have to get your racing gloves on.

The range of cars is offensively large--everything from the Toyota Yaris to the Dodg..