For many lawyers, the iPhone has already become a must-have. Its touch-screen features have served to take it one step beyond the humble BlackBerry, leading to a semi-revolution in that professionals are now able to carry just one phone for both personal and business use.

Fitness without leaving the comfort of the couch! Well not quite. You may at least need to shift aside the coffee table and prepare some space before jumping on the Wii Fit balance board for your Nintendo-led, computer-generated work-out, discovers Angela Priestley.