Next time you go travelling across Europe, think about packing some software. European Travel Companion provides you with eight handy CD-ROMs to improve your language skills and help you find your way around the leading cities.

If you are heading for Paris, the Great Cities of Europe discs let you quickly call up maps of the streets and discover useful local information about tipping at restaurants, bank opening hours and airport contact details. The information is concise and e..

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..

Babys First Blocks from Fisher-Price is a durable plastic shape-sorter intended to introduce infants to different shapes and colours.

The blocks come in a brightly-coloured canister with a shape-sorting lid. The lid is designed to improve hand-eye coordination as babies try to post each shape through the correct hole. However, the lid fits very snugly and once all the blocks have been posted an adult will probably be needed to empty the canister before baby can start again.

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The arcade version of Crazy Taxi was a massive hit, with its high speed driving and pounding soundtrack. Creators, Sega, ported it over to the Dreamcast where it sold by the bucket-load, and now its available for the PS2, the Xbox and the GameCube. And its superb. The aim of the game is simple. Drive a ludicrously fast taxi and make oodles of cash as quickly as possible--easy!

Choosing from one of four drivers, each with their own skill set, the player needs to locate and pick up pote..

The object of Backspin is to place all the coloured balls in their matching coloured slots. Sounds easy... but simple, boring, dull and frustrating? Its none of these, but rather is absorbing, eye-catching, intricate and challenging--and it can also be very calming so patience is rewarded.

This award-winning game is made up of two black circular discs, joined at the centre only, to enable them to revolve in both directions. Each disc contains six coloured slots, with the same colour balls. W..

The Sony DCR-TRV130 Digital8 Camcorder provides a good introduction to the world of digital video, being an easy-to-use and capable entry level digital camcorder. Despite being Sonys "best value" Digital8 camcorder, the TRV130 has a list of features that would fill this review on its own.

The Digital8 format uses standard 8 mm tapes to store digital video rather than the more expensive MiniDV format. You can fit up to 90 minutes on a single tape in LP mode. The TRV130 is respectably compact a..