As my pedometer on my iPhone never seems to work properly, I’m quite looking forward to the latest addition from Nintendo, Personal Trainer: Walking, a game for the DS and DSi.  Each copy of the game ships with two Activity Metres, or advanced pedometers, that sync wirelessly with the gaming system and count and record steps during a given period of time.

The game’s software then converts these into statistics or is that too geeky?!  Each Activity Meter can store up to seven days of data, while the DS/DSi game card can hold up to five years’ worth of downloaded data, that’s a LOT of walking!  A single game card can store four users and their data.

And if you have a wuffer, even pets’ activities can be saved to the DS/DSi by attaching the Activity Meter to a dog’s collar, for example. Daily goals can be set and you can import your Mii characters from the Wii game console or design their own. Sounds pretty fun and simple to use.

Getting Started

Running out of battery on my phone, iPod or Tom Tom is really annoying whether at home or abroad, but now help is at hand.

With green being the new black the new freeloader portable solar charger means you can power your gadgets without plugging them in so you can tick the box of helping the planet!!

How does it work? well, open up this slim device ,point it at the sun and within around 5-10 hours you have a fully charged device that can power an iPod for up to 18 hours, a PSP for up to 2.5 hours and a mobile phone for up to 44 hours! (neat!)

But I hear you say what with the great British Summer how will I ever charge it. Well don’t worry you can also charge it via a USB cable which will take 3-4 hours.

Once charged the battery will then hold its charge for up to 3 months. Tough, stylish and impact resistant this little thing is also very compact, only 12 cm long, 6 wide 1.5 deep plus it comes with adaptors to charge the following gizmos:

• LG Chocolate series phones,
• 2 adaptors for Nokia mobiles,
• 2 adaptors for Samsung mobiles,
• Sony Ericsson mobiles;
• 4mm straight jack plug for PSP, Tom Tom sat nav, digital cameras etc;
• Mini USB adaptor for Motorola RAZR, Blackberrys etc;
• a USB 2.0 female socket for MP3 players and PDA’s;
• an iPod adaptor;
• an adaptor for Nintendo DS Lite.

If you want in pink then no problem but I think I prefer the grey and it costs around £29.99.