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

MemoryBits.co.uk has now relaunched as ZoomBits.co.uk to reflect the wider product offering and an increasingly dynamic brand. It is the newest online computer, camera, gaming and mobile accessories superstore, boasting over 10,000 products to suit gadget-lovers of all ages. Perfect! 

From a bedroom-based entrepreneur with a vision, the MD Jonathan has built an extensive management team to continue to drive the business forward. “We’re not short of ambition,” he adds, “and fully expect to develop ZoomBits into the biggest accessories site on the web.”

The recent launch of their new website at the Soho Hotel was fab, there were gadgets everywhere for everyone at every budget! Here are my top 3 stocking fillers from www.zoombits.co.uk in the run up till Christmas and even better they are all under £20.

Z Flyer hand command astronaut

The ZFlyer Hand Command flying astronaut puts remote control power right into your hands with an innovative and unique control system. Hovering just above the ground in normal flight, when you place your hand underneath him, he’ll follow your lead so you can control his flight with hand gestures. How cool is that!  Hand Command is simple to fly and will stay upright with no effort at all – errrr probably not if I was doing it!  Price around £15

Satzuma USB mini fridge cooler

Keep your drinks cool by your computer with this very *cool* little fridge. No software or batteries needed just plug into your USB and away you go.  Great stocking filler and you can spend even more time at your computer than you already do!! Price around £15.

Gorilla Pod by Joby

We all love the gorilla pod spesh the new pink flavour that has been launched following on from the original one. Girlie, bright, and super useful, you can also get it in red, blue, green, orange and yellow. It is the lightest and most versatile camera tripod available today. Featuring over 25 flexible leg joints that bend and rotate, it will firmly secure compact digital cameras to virtually any surface – anywhere and everywhere! So attach it to the Christmas tree and snap away!! Price around £14

I HEART my gadgets, I really do and the thought of them being snaffled from me or even lost fills me with fear!!!  Not anymore though with this handy gadget insurance from www.protectyourbubble.com . Now you can tailor your policy and insure all your gadgets from iPods to laptops with prices starting at only £2.49 a month.

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• Special low prices for mobile phones and iPhones
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Henry the desk hoover has a new hooverette, we know she’s a lady hoover because she iz pink. The beautiful couple are mini desktop size and are more affectionately known as your desktop crumb busters. Pop in the batteries, press on and get vacuuming the bicky fest left overs! Simply unscrew their hats to empty the contents in the bin. Cute yet practical, this cheeky chappy and chicky deserve a place on any self respecting biscuit fan’s desk.

Price: £11.99

Features

• A miniature Henry Hoover or the new Hetty Hoover to help bust that desktop dust.
• Comes equipped with their own vacuum nozzle and crevice tool.
• The suction has been greatly improved on both these models, so now you can bust even more desktop dust.
• Suitable for ages 3 years+.
• Requires 3 x AA batteries (not included).
• Size: 9.5 x 9.5 x 9cm.

Pizza Stone

If you fancy a stone baked pizza along with your steak and burgers on your BBQ then check out this pizza stone, it’s designed to sit on top of your barbi. Simply place the pizza on baking paper, place it on the preheated stone, remove the baking paper after 3-4 minutes then finish cooking until the base is perfectly crisp and voila the perfect stone baked pizza.  It’s made of danish blue stone and will set you back £29.99

BBQ Branding Iron

For any aspiring cowboys (or cowgirls) out there, get this if you fancy having a go at branding! It’s an aluminium branding iron and comes with fifty-two letters and eight blank spaces, so you can customise your food with whatever message you like really ( RIP Daisy?) This could probably be a right laugh at parties if you fancied someone and didn’t want to tell them to their face…

 Available on line for £14.95

Portable Folding BBQ

This is great if you fancy having BBQs in the park or on the beach. It’s a compact, folding barbecue that you can pretty much take anywhere. You just unfold it, light the barbi and you’re away…you also need the food obviously!  No gas bottles to mess around with and it is re-usable so better the disposable ones you can get. Available on line for £24.99
Dimensions: Height: 30.0cm Width: 46.0cm Depth: 30.0cm
Weight: 4.0Kg