Our American counterparts have been raving about this little gizmo for ages. The Slingbox is a clever gadget that turns your home TV signal into an Internet stream that you can access from any networked PC — so you can watched recorded programming or live TV on your laptop from your hotel. Luckily, we in the UK won’t have to feel like complete technological …

Sony had a hugely impressive stand at CES, although the live music cramped our ability to film some of the new products. Sony innovated with the PlayStation Portable last year, and it’s now pushing that device with another new concept to get travellers excited. The company’s new LocationFree package is already available in the US, allowing you to send media around the world from your home. …

You wait 80 years for a device that’ll stream television from the living room to wherever you happen to be, and then two come along at once. Yesterday we were drooling over the chocolate-bar-shaped Sling Media Slingbox; today we’re ogling the paperback-book-sized Sony LocationFree base station (first encountered at CES). Both these products squirt television signals around your house, or …