There were loads of tech products not yet in the UK but due to hit soon.

Among the thousands of products on show in the tent, there were cameras with built-in mp3 players; mp3 players with voice command for finding a song (“What’s this?” I asked. “Oh, that lets you talk to your mp3 player,” came the reply. “OK, that wouldn’t make me look stupid on the train.”); some neat, non-Microsoft Media Center personal video recorders; small size but decent capacity juke boxes with colour screens that also connect directly to your digital camera; and a couple of interesting Voice over IP products due to hit the UK in February.

The real story with many of them was tech convergence, where different product functions were merging. It’s tough to know how well they work until we get a chance to test them properly, but we’ll let you know through the pages of Personal Computer World once we get our hands on them.