The Powerstrap is designed to be a wearable rechargeable battery pack providing quick and easy power for portable electronic devices. There are six Li-Ion polymer battery cells enclosed in a highly water resistant silica gel casing, with ten adaptors for all kinds of gadgets such as mp3/mp4 players, handheld games consoles, mobile phones and much more.

Simply connect your device to the wrist strap via one of the adaptors and continue to listen, watch, call or play without worrying about the battery cutting out. There are four LED lights to display the battery status and Mini USB connection for recharging/discharging.

The Powerstrap takes approximately five hours to recharge and can be used as a primary power source for devices, giving up to three hours talk time or eight hours mp3 use. It also comes in an array of colours including, yellow, green, blue and red, as well as white and black.

Available from January 2010 price £39.99. For further details check out www.powerstrap.co.uk.

The Orbit iMT237 a portable MP3 player speaker is light-weight, shock resistant, robust, ultra-portable and small enough to be carried in your handbag.

The speaker delivers a surprisingly clear, 360-degree field of full-spectrum sound without distortion. It can connect to any digital audio device including MP3 players or laptops, and you get 24-hours of continuous play from 3 included AAA batteries.

The Orbit is great for festivals, camping etc and comes with a handy case so it wont get damages.

Available online, priced at around £30. For more information check out www.alteclansing.com

Its’s getting warmer and the sun is shining at last woohoo, so maybe youre thinking of heading down to the beach… but what do you do with your iPod, mobile, keys, purse, camera when you want to go in the sea to play. Bring in the Yelpie portable safe.

It’s a convenient, weather resistant, portable safe designed to store personal belongings while you enjoy the great outdoors. Its advanced motion sensor alarm works to keep your valuables exactly where you left them, while being smart enough to know what’s an accidental bump and what’s an attempt to steal your belongings. If a thief attempts to move your Yelpie, a loud 90dB alarm goes off. That’s pretty loud!!

It’s available on line at www.yelpie.com on offer for £39.99 while stocks last.

How it works

Step 1: Put your belongings into Yelpie
Step 2: Close and set the alarm
Step 3: Alarm activates if disturbed for more than 2 seconds. Alarm will automatically cease if Yelpie is put down and left alone again.
Step 4: To deactivate the alarm and open the Yelpie portable safe, enter your personal code using the Yelpie’s strong and weatherproof keypad. No keys to be lost!

Running out of battery on my phone, iPod or Tom Tom is really annoying whether at home or abroad, but now help is at hand.

With green being the new black the new freeloader portable solar charger means you can power your gadgets without plugging them in so you can tick the box of helping the planet!!

How does it work? well, open up this slim device ,point it at the sun and within around 5-10 hours you have a fully charged device that can power an iPod for up to 18 hours, a PSP for up to 2.5 hours and a mobile phone for up to 44 hours! (neat!)

But I hear you say what with the great British Summer how will I ever charge it. Well don’t worry you can also charge it via a USB cable which will take 3-4 hours.

Once charged the battery will then hold its charge for up to 3 months. Tough, stylish and impact resistant this little thing is also very compact, only 12 cm long, 6 wide 1.5 deep plus it comes with adaptors to charge the following gizmos:

• LG Chocolate series phones,
• 2 adaptors for Nokia mobiles,
• 2 adaptors for Samsung mobiles,
• Sony Ericsson mobiles;
• 4mm straight jack plug for PSP, Tom Tom sat nav, digital cameras etc;
• Mini USB adaptor for Motorola RAZR, Blackberrys etc;
• a USB 2.0 female socket for MP3 players and PDA’s;
• an iPod adaptor;
• an adaptor for Nintendo DS Lite.

If you want in pink then no problem but I think I prefer the grey and it costs around £29.99.