If you’re not the romantic kind (or are just plain old single) and Valentines day is more of a soppy inconvenience then this is the gift for you, the heart shaped bucket.
Be warned giving this present may not result in the desired outcome that most people are after on Valentines day.
The heart bucket is available from Cox & Cox for £10.
If you want to get a “different” gift for your loved one and boy do I mean different then this is it, Valentine’s Day Talking Tapes, plastic that talks in your head!
You get 5 plastic strips in the pack and to listen to their messages you need to hold one end between your teeth and then run a fingernail across the grooves down the the length of the plastic strip. The secret messages (well not so secret as we’ll share them in a minute) will then resonate in your head, sweet. If you want to share the message with an audience you can always use a paper cup instead of your teeth to resonate the sound (video).
You get the following romantic (and not so romantic) messages in the pack
Show your love with plastic (the cheap way), available from Think Geek for $5.99.
I always think it’s a bit of a cop out giving people cash or gift certificates as presents (though if somebody wants to shower me with cash I won’t complain) and besides choosing the gift is half the fun. I came across a cool compromise today, the Money Maze.
With the money maze the recipient has to navigate a ball bearing around a maze before they can get at the enclosed monetary gift, so they’ve got to work for their pressie (it may be an idea to hand over the gift after they’ve had a few Birthday drinkies 
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The money maze is available from Firebox for £11.95, but make sure you’ve got enough cash left to put in it.
If you think DIY tools are a bit too masculine an alternative is at hand, courtesy of Flowerpower tools. If I’d found these before Christmas it would of saved a lot of head scratching choosing presents for those awkward women in my life .
Various essential tools are available including:
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My daughter and I tend to get a fair few joint Christmas presents (one of us is old for their age though some would argue that I’m a bit childish), the coolest joint present so far is the Homer sculpture puzzle.
To make your own Homer bust you need to solve 150 individual jigsaw puzzles and then slot them together in order (they are numbered fortunately) to build your 3D masterpiece. Once the bust is complete you can paint it with the included characteristic Simpson yellow paint.
One thing we learnt the hard way is not throw away the black bit of curved card that looks like an offcut as that’s actually Homer’s hair.
If Santa never left you a Homer head it’s available from Hawkin (where I bought a tonne of stocking filler presents) for £24.99.
Come on, we’re all gadget, and thereby gift nuts.
So bring it on, what’d you go out and get for your loved ones?
Also, what’d you get?! Come on, you’re dying to share,, do you get to Wii? Is there a new PS3 in the family?
Do you have new socks that for some reason smell different from your old ones,, maybe due to the fact that your feet have not yet infected them?
Post your stuff in the comments, give a little reason why.
Any philanthropy? Put it in there, goodness is appreciated this time of year chaps!
My list to follow as well.
Here are the cold hard facts – did you know that repetitive strain injuries constitute of the nation’s most common and costly occupational health problem? It is by far and large the fastest growing category of work-related illness, and more than 66% of all reported occupational illnesses resulted from prolonged exposure to repeated trauma on the upper body, and the dreaded Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ranks high on that list. We could all go out on a limb and complain about how hardware manufacturers have long neglected users by providing a more ergonomic experience, but being the great nation that we are, there is always something we can do on our part to help ourselves. This is where the Wristease comes in handy.
Sure, you mountain bike, snowboard, rock climb, fish, play chess, and drive formula 1, (this means you Coulthard!)
I’m sure you always wanted to bring back those living images of greatness when you jumped, landed, caught, or checkmated all your opponents in living color.
Now it’s possible for a reasonable sum of money! (that’s different than paying for the lipstick cameras that adorn F1 cars that cost a tad more than $100). Thanks to the ATC-2000 Action Camera from Oregon Scientific. A special thanks to the big guy over at Fat Cyclist, (his words not mine) for letting me in on the secret.
The Action camera is just what the typical adrenaline (and bbq salmon teriyaki) fiend is looking for. Durability. Did I mention durability? Yeah, cause I break stuff and I know you do too! As far as frame rate, you only get 15fps, which is more than fast enough to capture sports that require you to see what you’re doing. Just don’t go play that Tron-lightcycles game, man that is hard to follow on video!
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