In the UK we have a thing called the ‘Duke of Edinburgh Award’, which was a programme set up by Prince Phillip to get lazy teenagers out in the world completing various tasks to get a badge and brag about it on your University application or CV. The real reason anyone ever participated was for the expedition section of the scheme - this meant, at 14-years old, you and you mates were set lose in the countryside to navigate to a certain area and set up camp for the night, whilst a teacher would hop from pub to pub “keeping an eye” on everyone.

Who says practical can’t be cute? This Unicorn Powerbank is so sweet your friends will roll their eyes with envy (that’s what the eye roll means right?)

The S30R Baton III is the third generation of Olight’s flagship S30R torch (or “flashlight”) series, and as our old pal Bill says, “though she be but little, she is fierce”, this torch has the ranges signature Olight blue accents and latest Cree XM-L2 LED that kicks out an impressive output range of 0.5 to 1050 lumens. This little torch is a reliable light source due to the new USB desktop charging dock provided, with suckers on the feet that mean you can lock it to a surface, be that the desk, counter top or car dash board, it is compatible with Olight ma

Alessandro Schueli and designer Dane Galphin, launched Bændit, a Hong Kong-based brand eye wear with some unusual and innovative features, patent pending structure and materials allowing for a new relationship with our sunglasses. They have a modular design composed of two frames and lens modules, a nose bridge and two temples that all slot together with four and eight pin hand welded alloy attachment, coated with a silicone, sold in two sections, lens and temple set.

If I lost or damaged my phone 15 years ago, the biggest inconvenience would be gathering up all my lost contacts off my mates and shelling out for a new Motorola Razr. These days, as much as I hate to admit it, my phone is my life, like an external brain. If I lost it, I would lose not just my contacts, but photos, videos, music, messages, documents and a calendar, essentially rendering me a functionless human being.

The IQOS is a revolutionary post-cigarette age device created by the company Philip Morris. You may have seen vapers out and about, creating thick clouds of smoke that have the odour of apple pie or bubble gum, these people are using liquid vapes in e-cigarettes. This is where the IQOS differs.

With the summer upon us there is no excuse not to peel your backside of the sofa, switch off the games console and step out into the sun. God it’s bright out there, but the hair loss from lack of vitamin D just isn’t worth it! Don’t forget to smother your pasty skin in sun cream if it’s the first time you have been out this year.

With so many power-banks on the market now it’s easy to forget that not everything runs off a built-in rechargeable, like the ones we have in our phones and tablets. The GP Charge AnyWay is here to revive those devices that take AA or AAA batteries: games consoles controllers, remotes, external camera flashes or the computer mouse for example.

Things don’t get much more secure than the iStorage diskAshur² SSD! It is a portable encrypted solid state drive available in 128GB, 256GB,  512GB, 1GB, 2GB and 4GB capacities, as well as in four separate colours: Racing Green, Fiery Red, Phantom Black and Ocean Blue.

With the latest computer games and VR systems becoming completely immersive and looking so realistic, it’s easy to forget that they are all descendants of something much cruder, plinky plonky and 8-bity.