Press the button - save the world!

News of a new eco-gadget. Plug the Eco Button into a spare USB port on your PC. When you leave your desk, it puts your PC into a powersaving mode - and when you return, you’ll be shown just how green you’ve been.

Make the world a better place… one finger can make a difference. Available for £15 from I want one of those

Here’s a nifty little gadget - this is a tiny GPS receiver that uses satellite signals to record your position and the current time.

Carry this around, and it will capture information about where you’ve been. Download the information to your PC using USB, and you can do clever things such as plot where you’ve been on top of Google Maps, or geo-tag photos with the location that the photos were taken. It can also be used with image services such as Flikr and Picaso.

This device is cheap, and pretty powerful… well worth considering if you own a digital camera, or you’re into biking, hiking or walking. We’ll be reviewing this in a future show. More details and a review here: i-gotU GPS Tracker review

Here’s something that feels like an ideal candidate for our next podcast’s “And finally”… An electronic cigarette…

Available from I want one of those, this looks like a cigarette, tastes like a cigarette, smokes like a cigarette, but it isn’t a cigarette. Containing no tobacco, this has a tiny built-in battery that creates a vapour that looks like smoke, and the tip glows. It comes with a set of optional nicotine cartridges for those that need a nicotine hit from their fake cigarette.

Handy for beating the smoking ban, as an aid to giving up, or just to showcase some clever technology, this gives you the smoking experience without a flame, tobacco or carcinogens. From www.iwantoneofthose.com.

Don’t ask why, but for some reason a Brian The Brain has found its way into our recording studio. Brian, a chatty kid’s bedroom toy, featured briefly in Show 22.

If you want to find our more about this combined kid’s companion and interactive database, see our Brian The Brain Review.