The Gadget Show
I THINK what I love most about The Gadget Show, which returns tonight for a new series (just weeks after the old one finished, as per usual), is the way it shamelessly blurs the boundary between genuinely useful, practical information and pure self-indulgence.
Take tonight’s programme, where co-presenter Jon Bentley heads to New York to try out the latest iPhone against a pair of very close contenders, while his colleague Ortis Deley is on his way over to Germany to, erm, swim with robotic penguins.
Also this week, Suzi and Jason set out to compete in a banger race – not from behind the wheel, but by equipping their car with the latest virtual-reality technology that will enable them to operate it entirely by remote control.
Or so they hope . . .