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..

The Plug N Go Car Kit is an instant car hands-free system that brings an end to missed calls and fumbling for your mobile while driving. And it really is as simple as it sounds--plug it into your cigarette lighter socket, slot in your phone and youre ready to make and receive calls; no installation, no wiring, no fuss.

Remarkably well-designed, the unit comprises a steady phone holder and simple plug and takes up a small amount of room. Cars with the lighter socket in a hard-to-reach p..

The BBCs French Experience is an extremely comprehensive two-CD-ROM language learning course for beginners, and should soon have you speaking French with ease. This multimedia course is neatly broken into sections and combines video and audio learning techniques.

An inbuilt audio test makes sure all system requirements are met and equipment is working and ready for you to begin--its then up to the user to determine how much to cover each session. After an introduction covering the basi..

H & B has launched a new model for the budget DVD player market with the DVD-4420. It’s a well-built machine in a matt silver finish and offers "out of the box" multi-region playback, Dolby Digital, DTS and MP3 audio support. In comparison to the super-slim DVD-5415S the DVD-4420 has no karaoke functionality or metal facia but has lots of other features including audio CD and Video CD playback.

This player is very easy to set up. Simply plug it into your TV with the supplied RGB SCART cab..

The Samsung Yepp is easily one of the coolest-looking digital audio players around. The most outstanding feature of the Yepp is its size--only 3.2 by 2.4 by 0.97 inches and 1.7 ounces; its the size a deck of cards (and just a bit lighter). The controls are easily reached and the player has great sound. Better still, it never skipped a beat during our testing even when it was inadvertently slammed around a few times.

Of course, with its small size, youre paying a price in memory. This Yepp hol..

The DVP-NS300 is Sonys entry-level DVD player, but still boasts the comprehensive set-up controls of the more expensive models. It also carries Sonys TV Virtual Surround and a Block Noise Reduction system to improve picture quality. On professionally encoded modern DVDs the effect of this is negligible, but it does help with some of the early DVDs which were poorly encoded, helping to reduce artefacts.

The first thing that strikes you about this player as you pull it from its box, is that it ..