But there’s a catch! You can now buy games from a local online store and burn them to CD or DVD legally - but instead of being able to do it at home, the store has to do it for you, and send you the burnt disc in the mail.

If you’re in the US, have an Xbox 360 and have tried downloading TV shows and movies from Microsoft’s Xbox Live video download service, you may have been experiencing problems. Extremely high numbers of downloads from the Xbox Live video download service over the past few of days has caused the slow download speeds and video download issues US customers have been experiencing, reports Microsoft, with a fix in the works and engineers working around the clock.

The cotton industry has come up with a new reason to grow the very water hungry cotton plant: they’ve managed to remove the toxin from cottonseeds to make them edible. And this is progress?

The rumours are flying thick and fast that Apple is set to introduce two new iPhones at the US Macworld expo in early January, and it’s threatening to change the world of mobile phones and music as we know it.

Want a car that can tow anything? The Volkswagen Touareg sounds perfect, especially after it towed a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. But what a pity we’re still only towing planes, instead of flying cars!

Finally, the FM transmitter for iPods and other mp3 players goes legal in the UK from December 8 at last.

Quantum computers are finally getting some big breakthrough advancements that owning your own quantum computer do create and work on amazing projects sometime in your lifetime that will cause you to look at today’s most powerful machines and reminisce

Should the TV networks be quaking in their boots? What about BitTorrent and p2p users?

Sick of not being able to send big emails to friends, family and colleagues? Finally, a new web service lets you send email attachments of up to 1Gb in size. It’s simple and it’s free!

Are you a fan of the Palm Treo? A great new model is about to land on Australian shores, and has just gone on sale in the US. It’s one of the best messaging mobiles we’ve seen and is a strong challenger to the Blackberry and competing devices.

Remember this project? Created by Nicholas Negroponte from MIT Labs, and supported by the UN, some governments and companies such as News Corporation and Google, the first 10 laptops have rolled off the production line at a cost of about US $150 each, not the US $100 price point originally envisaged.

Got a new digital device such as a digital camera, mp3 player, laptop computer or other device that can take the new SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory card standard?

The Nintendo Wii is launched in the US at last, with our own launch scheduled for December 7. All the next-generation of games consoles will be in Australia once the PS3 launches in March 2007, but the Wii will be hard to resist for purchase this Christmas!

Windows Vista comes with more drivers ready to go than any other version of Windows, and you can download plenty more from the Windows Update website as you need them. If you can’t find your driver CD, letting Windows Update do a search for you may actually prove useful at last.

Why are car manufacturers wasting time and energy with hydrogen powered cars when they should be putting their efforts into electic motors? With hydrogen taking more energy to produce than it delivers, why the ridiculous distraction from creating clean electric cars with hundreds fewer parts than combustion engines? Forget about a hydrogen car, you’ll never be driving one.

eGames Expo Melbourne Australia: I’ve seen the future, and it’s in 3D. This technology has threatened to sweep the world many times over the past few years. But new US technology, developed in Silicon Valley and exclusively launched worldwide at the eGames Expo in Melbourne prior to its global launch on January 1, 2007, blows all the misconceptions away and finally launches the true era of high-def 3D for movies, games, TV and more.

Want an HD DVD player without spending an absolute fortune on a standalone player? If you’ve got an Xbox 360, the HD DVD drive comes early next year to Australia.

Wondering what it’s like to play the PS3? It’s totally INSANE… this is definitely a next-gen games console that brings the fight to the Xbox 360 right down to the wire. Microsoft and Sony are set to FIGHT!

My colleague James Cornelius came up with 5 reasons to hate Windows Vista. Well, I’m a Vista user myself right now (still on RC1, no RTM goodness for me yet), so here’s my comic response to James’ Vista rant.

Microsoft wants us to believe that Zune’s wireless feature is innovative and original. But hey, any mobile phone with Bluetooth can do the same thing today and has been able to for years. C’mon, Microsoft, show us some REAL innovation!