TOM Hanks' new 20-episode series has been called a "first-of-its-kind, 360° online interaction of digital, social, mobile and gaming media". Electric City, which premiered on Tuesday, is about a good-versus-evil struggle. Watch the trailer on youtube.com

GEEK TOY OF THE WEEK

PARROT'S Zik wireless audio headphones have been hailed as the world's most advanced. A product of renowned French designer Philippe Starck, they turn on the music when you wear them.

COMING SOON

AIMED at industrial designers and Hollywood animators, the Cintiq 24HD touch interactive pen display combines pen and multi point touch input to help artists and designers bring their creations to life .

IN CYBERSPACE

A DIRECTOR of a global internet services company, who chooses to remain anonymous, in an article in the Guardian asks if the internet is the new tobacco. See http://www.guardian.co.uk.