Everyone surely knows the misery of updating a digital phone book with all those new numbers and the same day having to figure out your income tax using a pocket calculator. It adds up to long joyless hours, spent poking away at those little keys. What could dull the pain?

The new Aiwa CR-TL70, that's what! Is it a pocket calculator? An electronic phone book? A password-protected database? A radio?

It's all four! Now you can listen on the radio to Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up is Hard to Do while deleting numbers from your phone book; hum along to Freddie White's It's Money That I Love while adjusting your tax bill; and tap your feet to The Beatles' Do You Want to Know a Secret? as you key in all that highly-embarrassing personal information.

All this, and it tells the time too. What will they think of next?

The Aiwa CR-TL70, priced £49.99, is available from Russell's Hi-Fi on Merchant's Quay Dublin and other good gizmo stores.