SIM Card Backup Keyring

The key to not being a victim of crime is to have the last laugh. This is where the SIM Card Back-up Key Ring comes into its own. Let us demonstrate: Your mobile phone is snatch whilst you are enjoying a few drinks out with your friends. 'How very unhandy', you think to yourself. In usual circumstances you may proceed to get angry. You may weep. But on this occasion, you have the SIM Card Back-up Key Ring attached to your keys.

On it you have cunningly backed up all the names, addresses, emails, and telephone numbers of all of your friends and colleagues that were stored on your mobile. There is no need to despair that your mobile phone is gone. You just transfer back all these details, quickly and easily, once you have a new SIM card using the SIM Card Back-up Key Ring.

Features

• Holds 250 telephone directory records
  
• Push a button to transfer from and to a SIM card
  
• Doesn't need to connect to PC or PDA to operate
  
• Stores information in non-volatile memory that will not be erased if the battery is removed.
  
• Not compatible with G3 sim cards
  

Specification

• Dimensions: Height: 1.0cm Width: 4.0cm Depth: 6.0cm
  
• Weight: 0.05Kg
  
• Batteries Included: Yes

Portable U.V Monitor

Now here's a rather useful contraption. In these days of enhanced solar exposure (that's people spending longer in the sun, to you and me) not to mention the whole planet getting warmer, it makes sense to know what you're getting into. How much sun is getting to your skin. And how much is too much. And that's where this thoughtfully-designed Portable UV Monitor comes in.

At just 8cm in length it's a fully portable Ultra Violet Radiation Index Meter. A breeze to carry around wherever you go, it measures and records the UV level in your precise proximity and provides an easily digestible reading, from low to high. But here's the really clever bit. It doesn't just give you a UV-based readout and leave you to work out the rest. Dear no. It then goes on to calculate your optimal exposure time based on your skin type and even the SPF of the suncream you're wearing. Magic. It then goes one step further by providing a user-defined countdown timer that alerts you when you're nicely brown on both sides, or, in the case of my wife, Mrs gadgetshop, toast.

Features

• Includes digital clock and thermometer
  
• Splash-proof
  
• Instructions included
  

Specification

• Dimensions: Height: 8.3cm Width: 4.5cm Depth: 1.8cm
  
• Weight: 0.5Kg

Laser Pointer

Let's be frank. Repetitive pointing is highly strenuous on the average finger and can lead to an uncomfortable condition known as presentation finger. To avoid this, we suggest: the Laser Pointer.

Made from solid metal, with a satin stainless steel finish, the Laser Pointer has a high quality red LED laser bulb inside it. This projects a bright, powerful beam an astounding 500 metres - hitting its target accurately and saving your finger from unnecessary strain.

Water resistant

Caution: do not shine the beam into eyes.

Specification

• Dimensions: Height: 0.1cm Width: 0.3cm Depth: 6.0cm
  
• Weight: 0.03Kg
  
• Batteries Included: Yes

V8 Keyring Torch

ALERT: metrological sources report sudden eclipses may become more frequent due to rising smog levels. This could make changing a tyre or opening your front door extremely hazardous. We turned to LED Lenser - producers of the brightest and most efficient flashlights available - for a solution.

Introducing The V-8 Photon Pump LED Torch Keyring. NOTE: This gadget MUST be attached to your bag or keys immediately.

You see, it gives you up to 2,000 metres of visibility. And up to 100 hours of light from one set of batteries. This is thanks to two things. One: the V-8's powerful LED light - which is a more efficient, longer lasting light source than conventional bulbs. Two: the torch's Crystal Reflector Tube - a tube lined with Italian crystal and precisely shaped to 'pump up' the light, giving a broader, more powerful beam.

Not surprising, therefore, that the V-8 Photon Pump LED Torch Keyring has won many highly renowned design and innovation awards. Or that it is featured in the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt, and London. What is surprising (ahem) is that you haven't got one yet.

Features:

• Solid metal casing with a hardened satin finish for style and durability
  
• Comes with lifetime guarantee
  
• Includes two sets of batteries.
  

Specification

• Dimensions: Height: 0.5cm Width: 0.5cm Depth: 7.0cm
  
• Weight: 0.1Kg
  

Automotive Rechargeable Car Torch

Please engage imagination, we have two scenarios for you. Scenario one: It's a dark winter's night. You are driving along a quiet spot of the B462 when, quite unexpectedly, your car shudders and comes to a stop. Interesting, you think. It must be a mechanical error. You decide to investigate and reach for the torch in the glovebox. You discover, to your alarm, that the torch is there but its batteries have run out. You sit, unsure what to do, while mild panic sets in. Now, scenario number two: you have the Rechargable Car Torch sat snugly in your cigarette lighter - see figure one. All the while your engine is on this unassuming gadget is charging. When your car shudders and stops (as per scenario one), you reach for the Rechargable Car Torch.

Stored in its Lithium cell battery is enough energy to give you three hours of powerful LED light - light that is enhanced via a crystal reflector tube system, so it is a high intensity beam.

Features

• Charges via car's cigarette lighter.
  
• Powerful beam.
  
• Solid stainless steel casing.
  
• Up to three hours light generated per charge.
  

Specification

• Dimensions: Height: 2.0cm Width: 2.0cm Depth: 5.0cm
  
• Weight: 0.1Kg
  

Emergency Charger

We do all know what it's like. No, really. Even those of use at gadgetshop HQ have had linguistic difficulties and communications conundrums to contend with in our past lives. And there surely is no conundrum more dashed difficult to solve than the mobile phone that's about to run out of juice. Until now, that is.

Looking for all the world like a cross between an alien cigarette lighter and a Maglite torch, this compact instant phone charger gives one's deceased phone battery a bypass and provides up to another two hours of talk time. Marvellous.

But there are squintillions of chargers out there, you cry as one. Ah yes. But none so silky smooth. Light. Convenient. And cheap.

Hewn from a turquoise aluminium tube, the sleek little charger has room for a single AA battery inside, making it useful wherever you are in the world. And at just a shade over 7cms long, it's eminently portable to boot.

Now one can never live in fear of being caught short in public again. Enabling one to complete that birthday phone call to one's grandmama, or that 'mwah mwah missing you too, sweetie', to one's ladyfriend without loss of either power or prestige. And that has to be worth a fiver.

Compatibility

• Compatible with most major handset brands, except Motorola
  
• Compatible with all iPod (all generations)
  

Specification

• Dimensions: Height: 7.3cm Width: 2.0cm Depth: 2.0cm
  
• Weight: 0.1Kg