I was one of the early e-book reader adapters and years later I am still using my Sony e-reader which I consider one of the most enoyable and useful gadgets I have ever bought. Over the years, I have found the Sony  PRS 505 to be much more than just an e-book reader. I use it to store and read PDFs and lots of other documents for business and research.

My Roberts Stream 205 portable internet radio allows me to listen to some of favourite radio stations from around the world. A life-long love of radio has brought me from listening to crackly shortwave radio transmissions from far-flung parts of the globe to the wonders of digital media and being able to listen to any radio station in the world via audio streaming over the net.

Abu Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates, is one of the shining examples of the emerging Asian-Pacific states that will dominate the global economy in the coming decades. It's a truly amazing city built  in the desert over the past 40 years, thanks mainly to the UAE's enormous oil wealth.