Technology never ceases to amaze. One minute you're getting your head around Google Street View and satelite mapping at your finger tips and the next somebody comes along and produces something where you just hold your phone up in the street and it tells you what you're looking at.

It's called Layar, it's as clever as a man with two heads, and from our point of view will help house hunters no end. Imagine it - you drive along, see a house, point your phone at it, and BOSH there it is, all the sales details in the palm of your hand. I don't think this is going to happen tomorrow but you can easily see it being standard practice within a few years. Read more about it here, and  watch this particular space.