I have a new favourite toy - a gadget that, in all honesty, is changing the way I listen to radio. It's a Wi-Fi Internet Radio.

It looks like any other radio, with a speaker and volume knob. But this is a radio that lets me listen to pretty much any radio station on the planet - sorted by continent and then country, just to make things even easier for me.

What's all the more impressive is that it also lets me listen to on-demand shows like the ones from the BBC - and actually lets me rewind and fast forward through them better than the actual BBC radio player does. And it's hooked up to a database run by Reciva, so I can register it on the site and add my own streams, which then get downloaded to my radio.

Of course, it has its frustrating moments. Sometimes streams aren't available - or keep rebuffering. And at the moment it defaults to a lower quality stream of some stations which my PC plays in 128k.

But what else can sit on my kitchen window ledge and let me flick between French pop and American talk as easily as if they were both on the FM dial? It's an impressive piece of kit, and I'll be very interested to see how the market for this kind of thing develops.