Infectious Laptop Art $29
Everybody seems to have a laptop nowadays. Trouble is, they all look a bit
alike, so it’s hard to get too excited about them. Infectious produces a
wide range of easy-to-apply art stickers that will make a laptop stand out
at any sale conference or LAN party. If you’re feeling particularly
expansive they also make car customisation kits too!
Polestars Pole dancing lesson £20
Whether it’s entertainment, empowerment or exploitation the Burlesque
aesthetic is nothing if not topical. Polestars offer an introductory
one-lesson gift voucher so the woman in your life can flirt with the idea of
shimmying herself fitter. The perfect stocking filler for the inveterate
stocking wearer.
Hotel
Chocolat selection £18
If you must give something as predictable as chocolates, make sure
they’re from people who really care about chocolate. This singularly festive
selection from Hotel Chocolate will make a lasting impression on the the
lucky recipient. Make sure too that you hang around until they’re opened.
They’re delicious.
Stabilo
S’move easy rollerball pen £4.99
Intended principally for children who are working on their handwriting the
Stabilo is also a terrific pen for adults, especially if they’ve noticed
their longhand penmanship deteriorate from excess computer use. Available in
a choice of colours and left or right handed versions (the link above is for
the more obscure left handed pen) it’s a small gift that will be appreciated
more and more as the year wears on.
Faraday
torch £9.99
It’s one of the ineluctable laws of nature that torch batteries, left to
themselves in the kitchen drawer of useful stuff, will mysteriously drain
themselves before the next power cut and no amount of harsh language or
shaking will stir the torch back into life. The Faraday torch uses one of
the other, less well-known laws of nature- Faraday’s Law of Induction – to
ensure that a vigorous shake will charge the torch up just when it’s needed.
Harsh language, in tests, appeared not to make much difference to the
Faraday Torch’s impressive luminosity.
Camitz
Sparkling Vodka £14.95
Vodka, that purest and most temerariously invigorating of drinks, tends to be
either gulped frozen or sipped with a sparking mixer. All very well, but
now, at last, there is a third way. Camitz is, put simply, fizzy vodka.
Packaged in a luxurious-looking mini champagne bottle with just enough for
four it’s a terrific original stocking filler for grown-ups.
JCB
SDS60 Screwdriver set £9.00
Listed at less than a tenner, but the certainty of having the exact
screwdriver to put up the picture your Mum got for Christmas or to open the
fiddly little battery compartment on your nephew’s new remote control car is
just priceless
USB Vacuum
£2.00
Computer keyboards are nasty places, full of toast crumbs and unmentionable
unpleasantnesses. A tiny vacuum cleaner might be ideal, but then where would
you ever plug it in? One of the beauties of this little USB vacuum that
takes its power from the very computer it’s cleaning. The other beauty is it
costs a couple of pounds. Marvellous.
Fridge
Magnet digital photo frame £29.99
Photo frames are good. People often have lots of them. People who have lots of
them tend to run out of places to put them. This neat little photo frame
clings to your fridge by the power of magnetism, and has 32mb of memory to
store a gallery of digital photos transferred from those new computer things
you keep hearing about.
Neon
and Black mini fridge £24.99
For the home office, under the desk at work, or in the garden shed a little
fridge is always handy for those moments when only a refreshing cold drink
(or one of those special yoghurty tinctures that we’re assured are good for
our digestion) will do. Tis one does the job, and boast a certain élan too.
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