Business travellers are a cynical bunch but we reckon this selection of cool gift ideas will cause even the most wearied of road-warriors to crack a smile on Christmas morning.

1. Archos 704 wifi

Video on the move? Forget a DVD player, this is the daddy. This personal media player has a gorgeous 7 inch hi-res touchscreen. The magic ingredient is wireless – meaning you can stream video and audio from your PC, surf the web and download your clips onto its 40 to 160GB hard drive. All this in a slick-looking package weighing around 600g.

£409 from Pixmania for 160GB version

2. Aspinal refillable travel journal

All those hours wasted on a plane can now be put to use. Give them this beautiful leather travel journal from Aspinal so they can record their innermost thoughts when they’re on their way to a sales conference in Hamburg. This is a real beauty – a calf leather cover wraps the creamy pages inside. It’s also refillable when all 150 pages have been filled with bored doodling.

Price £49 from Aspinal of London

3. Built NY laptop sleeve

Laptop bags are just so boring…or are they? This stripy sleeve by New York design team Built NY is as different from the traditional black bag as you can get. It’s made from the sort of smash and bash-resistant neoprene used in the wetsuits of coral reef divers so you can be sure your lappy will survive a typical business trip.

£24.99 from laptopstuff.co.uk

4. Globetrotter’s Logbook

Passports come and passports go but this well-made pocket-sized logbook lets seasoned travellers keep a record of wherever they have been around the world. Each page lists essential information and a good dose of trivia about all of the world’s countries and territories and has a blank space where you can stick a stamp from your destination. Pay an extra €3.95 and they’ll wrap it up in thick brown paper and tie it up with string.