Listen here and get with the programme. At gadgetshop HQ, we're rather proud of our brains. So proud, in fact, that we simply insist on a thrice-weekly workout of electronic brain games to deliver a serious dose of brawn in the grey matter department.

Now, from Dr Gary Small - the noted American physician who, despite his unfortunate name, cleverly brought us "The Memory Bible" - comes a suite of no fewer than five rather splendid Brain Games in one handy hand-held (and eminently pocketable) device.

Think of it as fine-tuning for one's cerebrum and you're well on the way to grasping its significance for keeping your brain ship-shape and Bristol fashion. Now there's no place you can't keep your own in-house computer honed, tuned and throbbing like HAL.

A brief tiptoe through the tulips of this clever gizmo reveals five mind-bending challenges, which are briefly as follows: Sequence, in which one is challenged to remember a sequence of numbers. Flash Card, which delivers a series of simple maths problems. Mind Games, to assist one in keeping track of one's thoughts. Word hunt, which requests that one finds hidden words. And recall, which hones the memory.

"Cross train your brain", says the ever-so-American packaging. And who are we to disagree?