Gifts

My Scratch Map

The My Scratch Map is a travellers dream as it allows you to scratch off all the places you’ve been to thanks to the gold foil layer that makes up the image of the world. Been to the Bahamas? Scratch it off and hang your map somewhere people will see, it’s a great little conversation starter. The map itself measures approximately 53cm (H) x 89cm (W) and is of very good quality. You simply scratch off the foil layer using the edge of a coin like you would a scratch card to reveal the gorgeous detail underneath.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Christmas Gifts, Anniversary Gifts

Stylophone Beatbox

Infuriatingly addictive, your Mum or your partner will be relieved to hear that the Stylophone Beatbox does have a headphone socket which also doubles up to accommodate speakers, it’s all pleasure and pain! So you can choose to share or not to share, making this the perfect companion on long journeys. Why not entertain other passengers’ on the bus with your fine and funky performances? Oh Yeah! Pitch and tempo are adjustable as you’d expect with such a clever gadget.

Ideal As: 21st Birthday Gifts, Musical Gifts, Toys & Games

MusucBags Wearable Sleeping Bags

If we wanted to keep this product really simplistic, we’d simply tell you that the Musucbags are sleeping bags that have arms and legs. We wouldn’t tell you that the wearing the Musucbag you can withstand temperatures of -13°C, we wouldn’t tell you that the suit lining is made from soft-touch nylon and padded with uprated Polyester Hollow Fibre Bonded filling (fancy eh?) and we certainly wouldn’t tell you that in comparison to the Selk bag which you may have heard of, this is the Ferrari of wearable sleeping bags.

Ideal As: Outdoor Gifts, Birthday Presents, Christmas Gifts

Star Wars Jedi Dressing Gowns

If you have ever wanted to reenact some of your favourite star wars jedi movie moments yet had just a little too much self respect to go and actually buy yourself the costume to wear around the house, this is what you have been looking for. Reenact away safe in the knowledge that if anybody witnesses, you retort “just got out of the bath, with you in a moment…” heh heh heh. “When 900 years old, you reach… Look as good, you will not.”, frankly Yoda should have bought himself this bathrobe and look good he would have.

Ideal As: Gifts For Him, Fathers Day Presents, Xmas Gifts For Men

Ballz Cubed

If after reading this review you go on to buy the Ballz Cubed, don’t come back on here and complain that we didn’t warn you. Here let us make this clear: Ballz Cubed will result in less productivity at work, you will become more popular as everyone will want a play but you may lose your social life as putting it down isn’t easy. Now that we have the health warnings out of the way, well tell you exactly what Ballz Cubed is. Made of 216 individual magnetic balls, the aim of the puzzle is to function as many cool patterns as you can.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Stocking Fillers, Xmas Gifts

Paper Jamz Guitars

These wafer-thin, touch-sensitive guitars contain some pretty fancy ActiveGraphicsTM electronics so you can crank out chords and riffs with ease or play along to a number of preloaded, fully licensed tracks without any of that elusive talent malarkey, feigning musical competence has never been easier! The freestyle mode is briliant, but not for the untalented as it allows you to strum away to your hearts content and almost acts as a real guitar would with fantastic sound quality thanks to the built in speaker.

Ideal As: Gifts For Men, Birthday Gifts, Christmas Gifts

Syma S107 Remote Control Helicopter

The Syma S107 comes complete with built in gyroscope (ooohh, fancy) which puts an end the endless spinning witnessed by many RC Helicopters. We didn’t know what a gyroscope was either, but Google tells us it’s is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, which means we’re still actually none the wiser. What we do know is that a gyroscope combined with a RC helicopter is a perfect combination, delivering possibly the single most stabilized, easily manoeuvrable flight we’ve enjoyed in a long time.

Ideal As: Boys Toys, Birthday Gifts For Him, Gifts For Men

Peanut Butter Maker

If you are a fan of nuts in general then you’re going to love this, The Peanut Butter Maker allows us all to open our own little pea-nutty production line…right in our own kitchens! Grab your nuts (Vintage Carry On film anyone?), throw them into the Peanut Butter Machine and stand back as the machine churns them up into warm, spreadable and extremely gorgeous peanut butter!

Ideal As: 30th Birthday Gifts, Lifestyle & Home, Christmas Present Ideas, Xmas Gifts.

Personalised Football Book

Containing genuine reproductions of all the important news stories following their favourite football team, the Personalised Football Book features the biggest back page headlines from the teams history, detailed match reports, transfer speculation, player signings and of course all the board room dramas. This individually bound, hard back book is tabloid size (38 x 30cm) for convenient storage and handling and holds the historical news reports for your selected team.

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts, Christmas Gift Ideas, Gifts For Him, Fathers Day Gifts.

Retro Sweet Hamper

A beautiful wicker hamper stuffed with mouth-watering sweets from your childhood. Sweets have changed a lot in the last 20 years, a penny sweet no longer costs a penny and the kids of today no longer visit the traditional sweet shop for a 1/4lb of Kola Kubes and a Curly Wurly. Gone are the E numbers and additives that sent us all hyper, and blue smarties just aren’t the same these days.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Anniversary Gifts, Christmas Presents, Easter Gifts, Valentines Day Presents.

Terry The Swearing Turtle

Terry has an infra red motion sensor which launches him into a tirade of potty mouth insults every time somebody approaches, which is especially amusing when it’s the boss. If motion sensors aren’t your thing then Terry comes with an “insult now” button which can launch him into his repertoire on demand, along with a “not-so-rude mode” and “safe mode” for when the mother in law comes to stay … maybe.

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts, Christmas Gifts, Gifts For Him, Stocking Fillers, Office Toys, Birthday Presents.

Monkey Nail Dryer

We imagine there aren’t many pleasures in life that would be as cool as having a monkey blowing your nails dry after you’ve had them painted. Getting a real monkey to do this might not be easy and would certainly cost you a lot of PG Tips, which we hear they are rather fond of. Thankfully though some clever person came up with the Monkey Nail Blower which doesn’t feature a real monkey, but is almost as much fun when this little guy gets to work blowing your nails dry.

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts for Girls, Secret Santa Gifts, Stocking Fillers.

Tao Digital Photo Keychains

At some point in the last 10 years carrying photographs around in your wallet has started to make you look like an analogue dinosaur in a digital age. Now when people ask to see photographs of your kids, family and loved ones you can simply whip out the Tao Digital Photo Keychain which comes complete with an 8mb memory, easily enough to hold up to 100 digital photographs and share your photographs in true digital style on it’s 128×128 pixel screen.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Secret Santa Gifts, Fathers Day Gifts, Gadgets, Stocking Fillers.

Snug Rugs

If a bug in the rug in snug, then the Snug Rug makes you more snug than a bug … ummm Doug. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? To be honest we don’t know, we just thought we’d continue with the sillyrhymes because besides telling you that the Snug Rug is a blanket that has sleeves, we don’t really have much else to add to this product description.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Christmas Gift Ideas, Gifts For Her, Xmas Presents.

Stealth Undercover Laptop Sleeve

The Stealth Undercover Laptop Sleeve is cleverly designed with all the marking’s you’d expect to see on your mail and takes laptops from 8″ right up to 17″, keeping them safe and secure using a well thought through Velcro strapping system… thingy. You can now sleep well at night knowing that your laptop is unlikely to be stolen unless the thieves in question have a fetish for manila envelopes, that or they’ve read this review of course. We like the Stealth Undercover Laptop sleeve and feel it would make an excellent gift.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Christmas Gift Ideas, Xmas Gifts.

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