Nice piece over on silicon.com about the rise in popularity of high-tech gadgets in the business world.

"Bug-detectors disguised as fountain pens, keyboards that can secretly record everything typed on them and clock radios with hidden cameras - devices once only of interest to spies are now being bought by company chiefs that fear they are being spied on," reports Steve Ranger.

I imagine, though, that some top managers might struggle with this technology. Can your CEO be trusted with a gun disguised as a PDA stylus, or might he accidentally take out half the sales team with one motivational gesture? Clearly, techies are going to have to play the role of Q, otherwise there'll be mayhem.