The really big deal however is that being digital, the signal can come over the airwaves packed with all kinds of metadata, which explains the little LCD on the front of the body. The name of the show, track listings, competitions and more can be displayed as text while you listen and you can even scroll through them. You can also control the datastream just like you would a show or video on Tivo or YouTube video, pausing, rewinding and replaying to your heart’s content even as you listen in real time.

When it comes to the technology that brings us our data and content, huge fortunes are being sunk into screen R&D. The most exciting change in laptop screens lately has been the SSV technology that’s quickly becoming the standard.

If you use several computers and peripherals with different operating systems in your home or office, you know how agonising networking can be. Even an all-XP or all-Vista environment is fiddly.