Keen runners might enjoy the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, available through the Apple Store in about three months. The Kit is expected to retail for $29 and will link up your iPod Nano with the Nike Air Zoom Moire trainer. 

Thankfully, this is done wirelessly, and will not involve a lot of cables swinging between your neck and your ankles - always dangerous. What it does do is pass on words of encouragement – tell you what your average pace is, and how far you have left to run. 

At the end of the run the user plugs their iPod back into the computer and gets a neat overview of how much they have done. The trainers are $100. Allowing for the attractive exchange rate we in the UK should probably expect to pay about £120. 

I’m not about to spend 120 odd quid on a pair of trainers that tell me how slow I run. I know how slow I run. I prefer technology for those who are more keen on coach action than they are road action. 

Goodies like this chair, that uses, “patented, award-winning motion simulation technology” to provide “dramatic, realistic motion that is perfectly synchronised with onscreen action and sound”. A chair that moves in time to the films you are watching? Where has it been all my life?

Loads of films are compatible the chair, including Nascar 3D: The Imax Experience, which thinking about it, actually sounds like something of a nightmare.