Stocking fillers

The Gadget Show  Tuesday 23 December 2008

Nine widgets to stick in your stockings. No legs allowed…

1 Breo Roam (£9.95) Containing Tourmaline, which apparently gives you added vitality, the Breo is a handy little sports watch that will time that well-intentioned, almost-useless, five-minute run you partake in on Boxing Day. Then it’s back home for turkey sandwiches and more chocolates.

2 Transcend 4GB Fingerprint USB Flash drive (£16.99) Play at a low-rent James Bond with this USB Flash drive. Costing under a score it has a fingerprint scanner, so nobody will be able to get at your “specialist” files.

3 Cylinder Travel Speakers (£13.16) Why would you want your iPod speakers to look like speakers? These external sound-blarers come in at under £15 and are cylindrically-shaped for your aural pleasure. They’ll also fit snugly into any stocking.

4 Cozy Feet Microwaveable Boots (£14.99) Does what it says on the tin. Stick these slippers in the microwave for two minutes, then slip them on your feet. They’re light little heated jumpers just for your leg-ends.

5 iKaraoke (£14.97) Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without some horrendous singing from an aunty with a moustache. Now she can destroy your iPod tunes with the iKaraoke, which fades down the vocal track, so you can sing along to the instrumentals. Tom Clones anyone?

6 iBlock Speakers (£9.99) A tiny speaker for your iPod that’s shaped like a LEGO brick. We can’t believe nobody’s thought of this before. Are you ready for some block-rocking beats? Ha ha. HA!

7 PicooZ Tandem Z-1 (£20) A radio-controlled helicopter with not just one rotor blade, but two. Because everybody knows that the best things come in twos: Twix bars, animals on the Ark, the Proclaimers. We rest our case.

8 Sat-Nag (£5) You can’t have a stocking without a really annoying gadget. This fake satnav has no use whatsoever, apart from really annoying the recipient of it. It just blares out annoying instructions in a real posh voice. A bit like some other satnavs we’ve come across then.

9 Solar Airship (£9.95) Kites are sooooooooo 1980s. In the 21st Century everyone’s flying eight-metre long bin bags. Basically the heat of the sun reacts with the air inside it to inflate it. Love it!