Are you ready to rock? Air guitarists the world over prepare to have your world transformed. No longer will your windmill thrashing be silent! With the suitably ludicrous skull and crossbones belt buckle sensor on your waist, the mini rock amp clipped alongside, and all important plectrum in your hand, you can now thrash away, and actually play up to some of the world’s greatest rock anthems. As you ‘play’ your air guitar and the plectrum passes in front of the death buckle, a chord from the track is played through the amp. Whether you’re thrashing out ‘Smoke on the Water’ or ‘Ace of Spades’, it doesn’t matter if you’re rubbish at guitar, as long as you thrash in time, you’ll sound as mad and dangerous as the great rock guitarists of all time (well, within reason). The rock-tastic tracks included with the kit are ‘Iron Man’, ‘Smoke on the Water’, ‘Ace of Spades’, ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘More than a Feeling’ and five other currently ‘undiscovered’ tracks. Being a Rock Amp, the volume goes all the way up to 11 (ten is just sooo pop), and if you want to go for full on cacophony, you can plug the amp into your own hi-fi and really annoy the neighbours. Alternatively you can plug in headphones and leave the paint on the walls - but that’s not very ‘metal’ is it?
Kitchen Gift Bucket
a spotty scrubbing brush, a hand embroidered duster, a bundle of dolly pegs, and a cream kitchen rules picture to hang.
All in a rich cream enamelled bucket which is practical and pretty
size 14×27cm
Just when you thought the world of photography couldn’t throw up any more incredible innovations, along comes a tripod that makes conventional three-legged supports seem as practical as telescopic turnips.
The Gorillapod might sound like some kind of simian seedling, and it looks like one of those thingies from War of the Worlds, but it is actually an amazingly flexible little tripod that will support your camera virtually anywhere.
Let’s face it, audio tapes were rubbish. Yes, you could compile party mixes and pilfer the top 40 off the radio, but times change and the thought of waiting an eternity for a C90 to rewind or untangling a twisted C90 is about as appealing as listening to Chico duetting with Slipknot. So thank goodness you can digitize the music trapped on your old cassettes with the miraculous USB Cassette Deck.




