Knowledge has never been more accessible than it is now (except for spoilsport government’s top secret stuff) and the Seiko Oxford Reference Library is capitalising on the e-Book trend with a new gizmo that contains seven reference books packed with facts, figures and all those things you never knew that you needed to know.

Naturally there’s an Oxford English Dictonary and Thesaurus plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations and the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia plus a phonetic spellchecker, word games and crossword, cryptic and anagram solvers. Knowledge doesn’t come cheap though. It’s £199 from Lifestyles Direct and Portable Technology.