Tag: presents
5 boring but important tips for buying phones and other gadgets
Is this the best Transformers toy ever?
We've seen some pretty great Transformers in our toybox exploring time (and some pretty unfortunately named ones too) but this has to be the maddest one we've ever seen. Feast your eyes below on the Ultimate Optimus Prime Transformer! Aimed…
Father's Day gadgets and gizmos gift guide
Picking Father's Day gifts can be a bit of a nightmare. What do you buy a man who already has his favourite pipe and slippers, and has watched last year's complete Sharpe DVD box-set back-to-back? But it doesn't always have…
Grandparents want laptops, iPods and other gadgets for Christmas
New research conducted by Logitech shows that the next-gen Nan is fed up of receiving boiled sweets and a Paul O' Grady autobiography for Christmas. Gadgets are in this season for geriatrics it seems. OK, the survey was for…
23% of Britons use the net to take a sneak peek at their Christmas presents
A recent survey of 1,000 people conducted by web analytic specialists Webtrends has revealed that one-in-four of us will take a sneaky peek at what our partners have bought for us online this Christmas. No present-shaking guessing games for us…
Floppy Disk Gift Tags – for the special geek in your life
Remember the amazing sticky labels you could put on 3.5″ floppies? Especially when you overwrote the same disc twenty times and ended up with a slightly wider floppy than would actually fit into the drive, because there were so many labels on it…?
Shiny Video Review: Top Valentine's Day presents for geeks
It may be too late to buy some of these gifts in time for tonight’s soppy Valentine’s dinner with your loved one, but I can assure you they’re more impressive than ASDA’s two dozen roses for £4 deal.
Take a look above for some of Zara and my top tips…
Shiny Video Preview: I Want One Of Those (IWOOT) Christmas goodies
Wednesday night saw one of the first Christmas parties of the year. In September. Yes, September. But hey, any excuse to quaff wine and check out some of the gadgets and gizmos we’ll all be buying for our friends’ Christmas stockings in a few months’ time.
Susi had a look at a couple of the products I Want One Of Those are touting to be big Christmas gifts, the…
Top 10 gadgets to buy your mum for Mothers' Day
Quick! Your mother doesn’t want flowers and chocolates this Sunday, she wants gadgets! Well, she does want flowers and chocolates, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t also throw in a high-tech pressie for Mothers’ Day.
Flogging your unwanted Christmas gifts on eBay leads to hurt feelings
In research hardly likely to surprise too many people, it's been discovered that it really does hurt people's feelings if you auction off the tat they gave you for Christmas on eBay. Nevertheless, it's now a pretty common dumping ground…