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THE plush presidential suite at the ITC Park Sheraton, Chennai, is littered with the trappings of an itinerant movie star8212;plastic-wrapp...

THE plush presidential suite at the ITC Park Sheraton, Chennai, is littered with the trappings of an itinerant movie star8212;plastic-wrapped flowers, complimentary chocolates, bottles of Jack Daniel8217;s, Smirnoff and Tia Maria8230; You name it and chances are Shah Rukh Khan8217;s got one, heck, maybe even two.

But we8217;re talking about goodies of another variety: Khan8217;s chipped companions and wireless workhorses. 8216;8216;In my house, just before my living room, I have an alcove of my own that has close to a zillion wires,8217;8217; he says. 8216;8216;It keeps me plugged into the world and usually resembles AR Rahman8217;s studio.8217;8217;

The study8217;s most important piece is the 178221; screen laptop. And Khan8217;s such an expert on the jazzed-up machine that he8217;s become an agony aunt of sorts for fellow Bollywood citizens. On a recent tour abroad, Khan assisted Priyanka Chopra with the configuration of her new laptop.

Besides the by-now-extensive collection of TAG Heuer watches, Khan now has two Airtel-enabled Blackberry phones, 8216;8216;I received a new piece recently. It8217;s great sending e-mails while sitting in the garden and not having to trudge to my computer,8217;8217; he says. Well, it is a big house.

His list of tech baubles can make an envious neighbour out of most gamers: Four Sony PS2s8212;in both tower and horizontal models one for almost every bedroom, including son Aryan8217;s8212;and four iPods. 8216;8216;I didn8217;t buy all of them, some were given to me by friends. Honestly, I don8217;t like listening to music on such a high magnitude, but my wife uses one of them.8217;8217;

Then there are the two Xbox and two Playstation Portables8212;one for Aryan and one for him. 8216;8216;I carry a PSP around everywhere.

It makes for great gaming while travelling,8217;8217; he says. He and Aryan regularly bout over Cricket 2005 and FIFA Street.

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The only bit of tech that doesn8217;t impress the Badshah much is a mobile phone. 8216;8216;Why should I get a phone that has poor quality pictures with all that zoom and night mode hassles when I can get a Canon that has a 5 mega pixel screen and is smaller and sleeker?8217;8217;

That8217;s right. When you are Mr Khan, why would you settle for anything less than the absolute best.