Let Us Entertain You

TVs are becoming PCs, PCs are turning into TVs and phones and personal digital assistants are morphing into portable multimedia devices. But it is not just the devices that are converging. In the home, Internet, telephone, television and stereo systems are fusing into a networked unit that can be controlled either centrally or on the move.

Many of the gadgets and gizmos that will help entertain us will be on display this week at the CeBIT trade exhibition in Hanover, Germany, which attracts more than 600,000 people each year.

Nokia will be showing off its...