I was watching TV in my lounge the other night. Balanced on my knee was my laptop, and indeed my other laptop was also switched on, sat in the corner of the room.

A newspaper was spread out on the sofa, a book I'm reading was on the floor, and my new eReader was charging on a book shelf.

At the same time I was checking my emails and Twitter account on my iPhone, and I was also involved in a text message conversation with a friend on my other mobile phone – we were discussing the same TV show.

I'm pretty sure the Wii console was whirring away, too.

In the kitchen my partner was using her laptop, talking on her mobile, and also listening to the radio.

And I'm certain that my iPod – the larger one I use at home, not the iPod Nano I keep in my bag – was playing because I could hear Jay-Z singing upstairs.

Unless, of course, Jay-Z was actually upstairs. In which case so might Beyonce, hopefully.

Anyway, it was at that point I felt a slight headache coming on, and as I got up to make a cup of tea I noticed all the gadgetry littering my home.

Somehow, over the past year or two, I have amassed an expensive collection of boys' toys and, to be honest, I can't get enough of them.

Older people, aka elderly relatives and the more aged colleagues at work, find it perplexing.

Tragic, even.

But it's not so different from doing The Times crossword while listening to The Archers at the same time. Is it?

And furthermore I would argue that spending your time chatting to friends online via Facebook or Twitter is possibly more social and less solitary than Radio 4's long-running soap.

Although it is not the same level of brain workout as cryptic crosswords.

Why would I Twitter what I had for breakfast? I don't know. Would you want to know? Perhaps I just have an urge to tell people about me, me, me, and what I'm doing every minute of the day.

But the big difference, of course, is that technology moves so fast, whereas The Archers?

Some people find the past reassuring. Not me. I want change, and I don't ever want it to stop.

Yesterday's iPods are out-of-date, as the latest models include cameras too. Mobile phones that make phone calls? Is that it? Today's smart phones give us fast unlimited access with better performance than many laptops.

Soon our fridges will Tweet us on Twitter when they're out of milk, the pens we use to complete those bloody crosswords will have the power of today's personal computers and we'll use them to 'type' our Word documents by simply moving our hands around in the air.

I'm thinking about treating myself to an Apple laptop. It's a funky silver computer which would set me back almost £1,000. I don't need it, I don't have that sort of cash to throw about, but I just want one anyway.

So what's the point? A colleague said to me that it would be just like getting a new wardrobe, and filling it with things which are already folded neatly in my current wardrobe.

True. Except I want a smaller wardrobe. One I can get more stuff into it. A wardrobe I can carry around, one that holds music, edits photos, film and zillions of other stuff, all of it very very fast.

And one that is just so damn cool.