Western Digital MyPassport Essential 320GB Price:€75 (plus €12.90 shipping) Buy:pixmania.ie
Not using an external hard drive to back up your data this days is like driving a car without a seatbelt - not very clever. We spotted this very good deal on website pixmania.ie for a 320GB Hard Drive that is incredibly light and compact, which means that you could use it pretty easily with a laptop too.
The good thing about this one is that you dont need a seperate power supply for it, it works off your computers USB port.
Blackberry Curve 8900
Price: from €199 Buy: o2.ie
The Blackberry Curve very quickly became the meat and two veg of the business world over the last few years. Everywhere you could see Irish business people, heads buried into their upturned palms on trains and airlines, working out just how much they made in the last hour. While the economy has changed for the worse, the Blackberry Curve has changed for the better and regular users will be happy with new features which include WiFi and a high-resolution screen. There is a much-improved media player and a 3.2-megapixel camera lets take much better snaps than before.
If the iPhone is a little too airy-fairy for you, this is the way to go.
The Slanket
Price:€39.26 (plus €17.84 shipping) Buy:firebox.com
Since this had featured on a popular radio show this week we thought we would feature it and what better way to spend your newly acquired redundant status than lying in front of the telly watching repeats of Top Gearon Dave.
And what better way to sit on the couch than in this, which is the Slanket - a blanket with sleeves. Need we say more? Probably not, I can see you reaching for the laptop any second now.
Logitech Comfort Lapdesk
Price:€29.16 (plus €10.94 shipping) Buy:elara.ie
I’m writing this now on an Apple Mac laptop and that might sound all well and good but my legs feel like they are about to combust and I’m probably doing nothing for my chances of fathering any children in the near future.
Thankfully, Logitech has a product that might save my legs (and my offspring) – the Comfort Lapdesk, which really isn’t any more complicated than it sounds. We found this for sale on Irish website elara.ie for much less than Logitech itself charges – and Logitech tries to charge almost as much again in shipping costs.