Although one of the most high-tech countries in the world, there is still a surprisingly low number of people that own a PC at home. We look at the latest technology to help the PC-less get connected to cyber space.

The last four weeks have created unimaginable fall-out in the financial markets, with the USA going from five major investment banking firms in March 2008 to none in September. Of these, Lehman Brothers was allowed to go bankrupt, Bear Sterns was sold off to J.P. Morgan Chase, and Merrill Lynch was sold to the Bank of America. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs substantially shored up their capital with outside investors as well as converting into fully regulated banks.

This week's Gadget Watch checks out the budget GHV-DV24SD camcorder, the beginner-friendly Pentax K-m DSLR, a handful of portable DVD players, and more.

Exercising out in the park yesterday, in the middle of a set of stretches, I realized that I had not addressed the issue of natural foods versus commercial supplements that are available in Japan and what they are good for. In my opinion, Japan is a treasure trove of healthy food and there is so much of it that people should be making pilgrimages here in a form of health tourism, much the same as expats from Tokyo go to Thailand to do high colonics (a body detoxification program). The following is just a smattering of my favorite Japanese healthy foods – in fact there is so much information on the subject that you could fill a book with the full spectrum available.