Look at the gadgets that keep my inner geek satisfied

Freeview Digital Television
After moving house, I found myself with a big tree blocking my Sky signal. This means the only other option to get more than 5 channels and a bit of quality is Freeview. I bargained with the salesman at Dixons who gave me a Sony VTX-D800U for £99.99. There are cheaper boxes out there but this one seemed to do well in all tests. Here's how things went...

Squeezebox MP3 Player
All my CDs have long been encoded as high quality MP3 files that I have been using while traveling and at work with my Creative Jukebox Zen NX. But other than through the crappy line out of my soundcard, no way to play them on my stereo at home, especialy not without having to turn my computer on. Enter the Squeezebox.