Last month we reviewed Microsoft's Bluetooth-enabled keyboard and mouse (January 2002, page 52), and at $399 we deemed it more worthy as a Bluetooth starter kit than a wireless keyboard and mouse kit. Cheaper and easier (although sans keyboard and mouse) is the GN-BTD01 Bluetooth dongle from Gigabyte.

It's a tiny USB 1.1 key with a single Bluetooth chip inside that lets you connect up to seven slave devices – mobile phones; PDAs; keyboards; cameras; mice etc; using your machine as the master.

It also comes bundled with Widcomm's 'My Bluetooth Places' software so you can configure a small PAN (personal area network) and hook a few machines together. File sharing is fairly pedestrian with Bluetooth's transfer speeds, but it is an easy and cheap way of wirelessly networking a small office or home setup. With it configured properly you can share files, printers and Web access among systems on the PAN.

At $99, the Gigabyte GN-BTD01 is a cheap way of Bluetooth-enabling your desktop, particularly as 2003 ramps up and more Bluetooth devices are released.