Well the must have gadget for 2010 has been announced and will be available in the US and UK from March (WiFi Version) and April (3G and WiFi Version) if HRH Steve Jobs is to be believed, and let’s be fair they have a pretty adequate record recently for hitting launch dates. In the ‘good old days’ they used to launch a product at a Keynote, and then announce it was rready to buy straight away.

Living in Spain it is hard not to become a lover of coffee, and as a bit of a self-confessed gadget junkie I love the effective appliance of technology in every day life, and if you throw in some Apple like packaging and a range of cool accessories you pretty much guarantee making me a happy chappie.

The Magimix M190 certainly qualifies – am a very happy chappie indeed.

As a Mac user I only ever use IE when testing something out via VMware Fusion, or when I get talked into helping out a neighbour or client with their PC, and each time I come away asking myself why??? – with Firefox, Safari and now Chrome all available across both platforms it just doesn’t make sense to me!

Anayway according to a recent report on Engadget it seems that more people are seeing the error of their ways

Couldn’t resit giving the 99¢ Security Cam application for the iPhone from Crowded Road even though I couldn’t see the point of it!

Apparantly the application was first submitted to Apple in December 2008 but hasonly just been launched as the concept of using the iPhone as a spying device proved a stumbling block.

I guess it is time to worry when you find yourself agreeing with Gordon Brown! Maybe it is the cold weather, or the fact that I haven’t been out of the apartment all year yet still feal totally in touch with the world, but I fundamentally agree with his article today in the Telegraph

Broadband will soon be seen as indispensable as electricity, gas or water, argues Gordon Brown.

I have never really taken to Facebook to be honest, primarily I think because I don’t really have any old friends that I particularly want to find as I tend to hold the view that if you are true friends you will have kept in touch anyway.

Another reason is pretty well summed up by this article on the Telegraph website, which says:

Users of Facebook and other social networking sites who fear they do not have enough friends are “buying” them to look more popular.

Next Years launch of the plug in Prius Hybrids will be supported by a trial of solar charging stations.

The first place to test out the chargers is unsurprisingly Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, where 21 stations will be built across 11 locales including government offices and train depots.

Every techie loves a list, especially a Top 10 at Christmas, so I was intrigued by the recent Top 10 gadgets of the decade in The Telegraph.

Personally I have 9, 4,3, 2 and 1. Have used a 5 and liked it, and am a big fan of GPS. Would love a Slingbox at some time …

No surprise that as an owner of a Toyota Prius Hybrid I am excited about the news that the PHEV (plug in Hybrid) may be on sale as early as 2011, rather than 2012 as expected.

Toyota are planning to produce and ship just under 600 of the models over the next six months. That breaks down to around 230 for Japan, 200 for Europe, and just 150 for the ‘States. Government agencies, corporations, and universities are the primary recipients, and interestingly, half of those Euro-bound cars are going straight to Strasbourg, France.