Here are my something for the weekend gadgets from Sunday 25th October, the one where my dress appeared to be a lot shorter than I thought !!!!

iLloom Balloons

iLLoom Balloons are a fun party or special occation decoration. Instead of having your standard balloon for Halloween or for your birthday, you can buy these balloons that light up once they’re inflated. Each illoom contains a little LED light that is triggered to switch on once you pull out the toggle and blow into the balloon. You can blow into them manually but they also work well with helium.

Each illoom balloon lasts for around 15 hours. Available both in supermarkets and online priced at around £3 for a pack of 5.

Nano - Copter Mark 2

The Nano-Copter Mark 2 is a super-small, yet highly durable remote controlled flying helicopter toy. Its light-weight rotor blades are safe enough to use indoors, but it also has enough control and power to hold its own outdoors in windy conditions. The Nano-Copter is manoeuvred by an infra-red remote control, which also contains a built-in charger, which fully charges the device in just 15-20 mins. The copter itself contains a lightweight rechargeable battery and has a flying time of around 10 minutes when fully charged.

It has a flying range of about 5-10 meters, which is enough to have the most amount of fun possible and it won’t fly off into the distance so you can never retrieve it again.

The Nano-Copter Mark 2 is available now online and in store for around £30.

Qlocktwo

The wall mountable or stand-up Qlocktwo uses words to tell you the time rather than the usual numbered system.The words change in 5 minute intervals, but four little ‘minute dots’ give you the minutes in between each of those 5 minutes.

The very stylish and high fashion design uses acrylic glass with polished edges for the front and the body itself is made from wood; four layers of lack. The DCF-77 time-signal receiver gives you second accurate time-telling without manual setting, it also has an automatic summer/winter daylight-savings time detection, a light sensor for automatic adjustment to ambient light manual brightness control and has a fairly low energy consumption due to the use of LED lights.

It is available in 6 colours and will hit the UK around December with a UK price yet to be confirmed. The European price is currently 885 Euros - around £800.

The Qlocktwo ‘pocket’ is also available right now to download online as an ‘App’ for around 59p

Got SAD or feeling SAD? It’s that time of year again when the clocks go back so why not treat yourself to a new clock to beat the winter blues. The Sunrise Wake Up Clock is a digital radio alarm clock that helps you wake up naturally and stress free. It has a sunrise simulating process that gradually gets brighter as your alarm time gets nearer. It can also be used as a reading lamp too and features 5 built in sounds of relaxation.

Price £99.99

The Lifetimer clock is certainly different and it lets you keep track of the important things in life in a fun way - like how long till my next holiday aaaaarrrrrgh!

The clock face is surrounded by a collection of buttons relating to various things that go on in your life so birthdays, hometime, s*x and even how long you have been with your latest squeeze for!

Simply press any of the buttons and it will give you the number of hours, minutes and seconds you’ve got left till the event happens or have already passed.  

Great idea for a clock and it’s only £14.99, just need to count down how many days ’till you get paid to see when you can buy it!

Available on line at http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/lifetimer/index.html 

Features

• The Lifetimer keeps track of the important things in life, counting up or down to momentous events like ‘home time’.
• An option to set the clock to 12 or 24 hour clock.
• A stopwatch function.
• The Lifetimer counts the days until your Birthday, Christmas, next holiday, lunch hour, home time, the weekend, the event of your choice.
• The Lifetimer times how long it has been since you started your job, began your relationship, last had sex.
• The calendar stretches up to the year 2050.
• The Lifetimer is an interactive little thing, pinging away with date reminders and scrolling messages across its back-lit LCD screen.
• Ergonomically designed.
• Powered with 2 x AAA batteries (not included).
• Suitable for ages 16 years+.
• Size: 8.5 x 9.4 x 8.5 cm.

Check out this funky little dual band Radio Control Projection Clock with Calendar. It projects a fun animated version of time and alarm status on to the ceiling or wall at night. I’ve got one of these and now I cant live without it !!! It is just so useful.

It’s also got an alarm with an 8 minute snooze to wake you up in the morning, and for the heavier sleepers amongst us you can also get the optional vibration alarm which is like a mini discus that you put under your pillow or (wherever takes you fancy) and it vibrates when the alarm goes off.

Available on line for £20, for further details check out:

http://www.oregonscientific.co.uk/prod_funkyprojectionclockwithanimation.htm