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

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

Just what are Chatimals? Imagine for a moment if you will an experiment involving a hamster, a parrot and a truck load of helium… well you won’t be too far wrong. If when you were young (or even now your older…) you ever played that little game where you somewhat frustratingly repeat exactly what someone says to you continuously, then we would like to introduce you to your new best friend. The Chatimal is tipped by the toy experts to be a contender for toy of the year.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Children’s Toys, Stocking Fillers

Britain we are told, has talent. The only problem being that finding it is more difficult than tracking down the one remaining Dodo. Imagine if you will, you are sitting in your office and one of your beloved and very well respected colleagues comes up with yet another truly stupid idea. You have two ways of responding, nod along whilst thinking “this is never going to work” or doing what we’d all love to do in our every day lives and hit the big red X button letting them know that they really are a dimwit and are wasting your time.

Ideal As: Gifts, Kitsch & Daft, Toys & Games

To master the addict-a-ball you must guide your ball through a huge array of challenges, over platforms, through arches, down holes, vertical roll through’s meaning you must twist and turn the ball up to 360 degree’s in order to reach your goal. There are two versions available, the large has 138 numbered sections you have to work your way through with the travel version still sporting 100 numbered sections to conquer.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Christmas Gift Ideas, Fathers Day Presents, Office Toys, Kitsch & Daft, Secret Santa Gifts, Stocking Fillers, Xmas Presents.

Thankfully we don’t all think like the Japanese and try to make everything smaller otherwise we’d never have been given this delight of a lollipop. Whilst good things may come in small packages, we can happily confirm that great things come in MEGA sized packages! 75 times larger than a standard Chupa Chup lollipop the Giant Chupa Chup is certainly a bit of a mouthful (go on – we dare you to try it – you know you want to!), just send us a picture if you do give it a try.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Christmas Gifts, Gifts For Her, Easter Gifts.

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.

There is probably no cuter way to dry your nails than a little plastic monkey who is always ready and waiting to blast a stream of cool air onto your nails whenever you need him too. We do imagine a real baby monkey sitting on your dressing table and blowing your nails dry might possibly be cuter, but we do think your going to get into a lot of trouble for trying to steal monkeys, so di it at your own peril.

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts for Girls, Secret Santa Gifts, Presents For Her, Presents For Women, Stocking Fillers.

On the grand scale of things, there’s just not really much to enjoy about rain. Firstly it’s wet, which is slightly annoying when you’re caught out in it without an umbrella. But then umbrellas are rather dull themselves as they normally come in navy blue or black or some or some other dreary colour. Step up and take your bow Twilight Umbrella, we applaud you for making walking in the rain more entertaining than a spider on ice skates.

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

Earbuds as they stand are pretty boring to look at with the ‘iPod white’ look about as stylish as corduroy pillows these days. Thankfully some clever soul decided that earbuds didn’t have to be boring and came up with the Extraordinary Earbuds, which we think are pretty cool indeed. So you spend hours making yourself look good only to step out of the house with your boring old earbuds? We don’t think so buster!

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts, Christmas Gift Ideas, Fathers Day Presents, Secret Santa Gifts, Stocking Fillers, Xmas Presents.

Back in 1977 Morph was born and instantly became a massive star. Complete with accessories, Morph comes along with a fake beard, a cricket bat and a wizard’s hat so you can truly recreate those special childhood moments. The Plasticine doesn’t dry out so Morph can be remodeled time and time again and if your lacking inspiration, the DVD comes complete with 15 classic Morph episodes to get the creative juices flowing.

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts, Fathers Day Gift Ideas, Secret Santa Gifts, Toys & Games, Xmas Presents.

We’re not entirely sure why we love this so much, if we wanted to be bossed around on a long car journey to the point of deliberately driving into a tree, we’d simply take the missus along with us. However the Sat Nag almost delivers a sense of nostalgia, taking us back to remember those stressful car journeys where the wife simply feels she knows much better than we do, what utter joy!

Ideal As: Birthday Gifts, Xmas Gifts, Gifts For Him, Fathers Day Gifts, Secret Santa Gifts, Stocking Fillers.

Some things in life are inevitable, it will always rain when you don’t have an umbrella, you’ll always wait 45 minutes for a bus – then two will turn up together, and bubble wrap just has to be popped, no human being alive can resist the temptation of bubble wrap. The Poptastic bubble wrap keyring delivers a deeply satisfying popping sound every time you press it, it never runs out and best of all, you can take it with you anywhere you go.

Ideal As: Birthday Presents, Christmas Presents, Secret Santa Gifts, Stocking Fillers, Christmas Present Ideas.