Gadget Gifts

Maplin Electronics

Website: www.maplin.co.uk

Not an obvious website choice for gift ideas and presents but it’s surprising how much electrical stuff is bought for Birthdays, Christmas, Wedding presents, and Easter gifts.

If you’re on the search for MP3 players, mobile phones, cameras and camcorders, laptops and sat nav systems and all the accessories you could wish for, then Maplins has it all.

Welcome to our regular gift roundups. Our chance to point out useful gift-related articles we have discovered to help you choose the ideal presents for your friends and family. This week we focus on Mother’s Day gifts.

Welcome to the first of our regular gift roundups. We’ll be pointing you to useful gift-related articles to help you choose the ideal presents for your friends and family.

£29.95 at Prezzybox.com

If you happen to have a best mate, wife, husband or partner who has vowed to give up smoking as one of their New Years resolutions, then this electronic cigarette will make the perfect birthday gift to help them give up their habit.

£19.95 at ParamountZone

Is this the ultimate pulling t-shirt? Well maybe a crowd-pulling one! I think this is the most fantastic item of clothing I have seen in a long time (well since the T-equalizer, similar to the i-cushion).

You can probably guess what it does – but keep going to find out more…

£39.99 at Play.com

This Competition has now ended but you will find more on our GiftChooser Competitions page.

Gamers all around the UK are eagerly awaiting the release of the next edition in the hugely popular series, Grand Theft Auto. GTA IV is due for release on the 29th April, and it’s bound to be on a lot of peoples ’wish lists’.

If you know someone who loves their games console more than anything or anyone, buying this game for them will probably make you the best person in the world in their eyes.

You can even have a go at winning one at the GTA IV Competition at Web Savings World.

Ethical Superstore

Website: www.ethicalsuperstore.com

Whilst many folks are happy to buy any gift for a birthday or celebration, a lot of people are starting to become more selective about what they buy as presents, where its come from and what kind of impact it has had or will have on the environment.

Ethical Superstore have got the whole list covered because they only sell gifts that are ethical, fairtrade and/or organic. It’s an ethical revolution!

Are you fed up of chocolates? Christmas was only 10 weeks away and I am still working off the tins of Quality Street and After Eights! I am sure most other people feel the same way, but are just too polite to say it. So why not buy some non-chocolate gifts this Easter instead?

Read on to see my hand-picked selection

£249.95 at Firebox

The latest interactive creature to hit the shops is Pleo, an animatronic dinosaur. If you think Roboraptor was good, you’ve not seen anything yet!

£12.95 at Love My Gift

If you know a dog owner who has a birthday coming up or you feel they just deserve a little present to say ’Thanks’, how about this funky dog lead that comes complete with its own torch.

£39.49 at Feeling Chilled

I bought a r/c helicopter for my boyfriend this christmas and he loves it! In fact I’m a bit of a r/c widow at the moment because he can’t get enough of it.

The one down side to the one I bought is that he can only fly it for 8-10 minutes before the battery needs charging again. Enough time for a cup of tea before he starts again.

Discount Voucher Codes are brilliant ideas and make online shopping even better value than high street shopping.

Not only is online shopping quicker and easier than venturing into the jungles of the high street, but it’s also warmer and comfier than tramping around in the cold and wet weather.

Find Me A Gift have a New Year present for everyone ordering gifts online from their web shop which will make buying your Valentine’s Day Gifts cheaper than normal.

£9.99 at Hawkins Bazaar

I absolutely love this clock and think it makes a fun and quirky present for someone with a sense of humour.

My Grandad bought one of the original ones about 15 years ago, It was red and hung on his kitchen wall and I was fascinated by it, trying to figure out the ’real time’.

In fact it is still hanging on the kitchen wall and working as well as ever.

£39.95 at GadgetShop

This funky iPod alarm clock has got to provide the most fun you can imagine having in a morning. Not only does it look very sleek, but you know it’s always going to play the songs you like. Ten times better than radio!

£154.99 at Ethical Superstore

I saw this gadget on a certain TV programme this weekend and was so impressed with it I decided to let everyone else know about it.

This is the ultimate in eco-gadgets. And you’ll never need to buy batteries again!