Are you the contractor or freelancer who likes to be the cool, quirky guy (or girl) in the office?
Well if you feel you’re failing in your mission to stand out from the humdrum crowd, these following desktop gadgets are sure to make you the envy of your bespectacled bald-pated colleagues…
We all know how annoying it can be when Sandra gets the teas and coffees in but messes up your order. “That’s too much milk… and I didn’t ask for sugar!” These brilliant personalised office mugs allow you to print your name and beverage preference so that silly Sandy doesn’t make the same mistake again.
Available for £9.95 at Gadgets.co.uk
On the subject of hot drinks… if the personalised mug doesn’t do the trick then simply make the coffee yourself with this desktop coffee maker. Simply fill it with water, add some filter coffee and wait 30 seconds. The coffee maker also provides for two people, so if you’re feeling generous you can always make coffee for one other person.
Available for £14.95 at Gadgets.co.uk
Put your cups of tea and coffee on this hilariously fun coaster where it looks as though someone’s been splattered by your mug!
£7.95 at Gadgets.co.uk
Coffee leads to spillages; spillages lead to stains; and stains lead to a clean up operation. That’s Cyber Clean comes in. It’s particularly useful for electronic items where water presents a hazard. As the manual says, simply ‘press it onto the surface of what you want to clean, leave for a while, and then peel off.’
Available for £7.95 at Gadgets.co.uk
Some people like to have biscuits to accompany their hot drinks. Crumbs! Yes, biscuits tend to splinter and require sweeping up, or better still hoovered up. This is where a stylish desktop vacuum cleaner comes in to play.
£9.95 at Gadgets.co.uk
To show off your musical side, why not learn how to play the ruler? This ruler comes complete with a tutorial on how to play a thoroughly undervalued musical instrument.
£6.96 at Gadgets.co.uk
This genuinely cool looking device features a light bulb suspended inside a solid acrylic brick. The great thing is that it’s entirely self-sufficient, powering up during the day before ‘releasing it’s hypnotic glow after dark.’ Looks rather spooky.
£17.95 at GenieGadgets.com
This pencil cleverly measures the distance that you have covered with your writing. By the time the pencil has been used you will have covered three miles. With this kind of rudimentary technology you could create the new sport of long distance writing!
£1.75 at GenieGadgets.com
This may look like a standard tape cassette, but in fact it is a cellotape dispenser. A cool retro look that’ll leave you making excuses to tape stuff up.
£11.95 at GiftedGadgets.co.uk
After all these quirky gadgets, I thought I’d end with a piece of technology which really took my eye. The Z Pen allows you to write as usual on a piece of paper and then, when you’ve finished writing, you can upload it onto your computer. This avoids the scenario whereby you scribble down notes and then have to re-write them onto computer. This does it all automatically via a USB drive. Simply clip the drive onto your piece of paper and it automatically translates everything you write and saves it electronically.
£99.99 at Firebox.com
