I got a chance to try out the Walkman at Sony's Tokyo launch event and it's pretty impressive. With Apple starting to serve up non-restricted music through the iTunes Music Store competing players might be worth a second look. Also this month we saw another example of how quickly technology spreads and becomes available. It was less than a year ago that video came to the high-end digital SLR cameras but now its arrived in low-end DSLR models too with Canon's Kiss X3.

During the month we were also lucky enough to glimpse some truly futuristic research - brain control of gadgets! Just imagine your TV automatically switching channels when you start thinking, "this show is boring, I wonder if there's some good movies on." Read on for more!