Listening to your iPod while you’re doing something active (well more active than sitting on the bus) can be a traumatic experience. Fiddling with buttons and jostling the earphones into some semblance of a comfortable position while you’re in transit makes the whole process a bit of a bore for those who can’t exercise without a beat. The CyFi Wireless Sports Speaker makes it as easy as can be no matter your outdoor pursuit of choice. The key to the CyFi is its adaptability – as well as being a companion for your cycling commute it’s great for camping hiking boating… basically most things ending in ‘ing’. It’s the perfect thing for outdoor holidays relaxing round the campfire after a hard day’s trekking or for playing Duran Duran’s Rio while the boom comes overhead (what do you mean you’ve never seen that video?!). It comes with a clamp for fixing it to the handlebars of your bike so that your downhill descent can be suitably soundtracked as well and the sound quality is impressive. Buttons for changing the track and adjusting the volume mean that you don’t have to fiddle with the iPod in your pocket while you’re trundling along. Simply plug the dinky audio transmitter into your iPod press play and let the CD-quality CyFi do its thing. The speaker itself is light enough and small enough to pop in your coat pocket and it has a range of 30 feet (which should be plenty even if you find yourself dislocated from it due to tumbling into a ravine or whatever sporting injuries might befall you). You can sync up to 4 CyFi speakers for especially large groups of like-minded people and then pack it all away in the neat little carry pouch. Charging for 2 hours via USB will give you over 6 hours of listening time. So whatever you spend your outdoor time doing make sure you’ve got the Cy Fi in your pocket to keep the whole experience in tune.

Price : £ 79.99

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Everybody’s favourite camper from the 60s. The ride of choice for travelling hippies surfers and everyone that was tuning in turning off and dropping out. ; ; A little hard work and patience and our Build Your Own VW Bus rewards you with your own detailed scale model. You may not be able to take it on the road but it makes a great present for any motor enthusiasts. ; ; With Die-cast metal dashboards opening doors and a pull back and go motor as well as screwdriver and full instructions our Build Your Own VW Bus makes an original and fun project to keep him occupied for hours on end.

Price : £ 4.49

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The Big Bubble is a comprehensive bubble kit that makes creating gigantic bubbles so easy that you’ll never have to toss a coin into the proffered hat of a street bubbler ever again. That has to be a good thing. With easy instructions and the ‘magic’ recipe for making the best bubble goo using stuff you’ve got at home (no buying expensive bubble goo from the shops) this kit will have everyone going oooh and ahh in awe. No longer will you have to put up with piddly little bubbles – with a bit of practice you can make bubbles as big as a bus or indeed several buses which will no doubt all come at once. Everything you need to make massive bubbles. Includes a patented Bubble Thing (invented by NY Architect David Stein) and a helpful bubble guide entitled How To Make Monstrous Huge Unbelievably BIG Bubbles. Suitable for ages 6 years +. Size: Guide: 22.5 x 18.5 x 0.5cm Bubble Thing: 57 x 2cm (diam).

• Gift – Outdoor

Price : £ 7.99

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Just make sure you don’t post it. Without sounding too paranoid thieves are everywhere. On the streets on the bus and sometimes hiding in the rubbish like Oscar The Grouch. We think. Anyway it’s never a bad idea to be security-conscious most of all when it comes to something precious like your laptop. The Undercover Laptop Sleeve is a neat light-hearted solution that makes your laptop look no more conspicuous than a big battered letter – and nobody wants to steal one of those unless they’re a couple of stamps short of the full postage if you see what we mean. Speaking of which you’d be advised not to leave it hanging around any courier pick-up points or outboxes or else you might find yourself running after a delivery van like a mad person. The attention to detail in this defensive device is great – the phoney address the battered appearance the crafty LOL Post emblem it borders on being cheeky. The size is adjustable so even if you’ve got a lumbering great colossus of a laptop (what do you mean 17 minutes is too long a start-up time?!) then you’ll be able to squeeze it in. Similarly your tiny little netbook will sit snugly inside thanks to the Velcro adjusters making sure that your ‘package’ stays super-safe. The padded interior will protect your precious cargo from bumps and knocks (though you might want to think twice before using it as a sled and rocketing down the staircase) not that people tend to pay much attention to folk with battered-looking parcels. So no matter the size and heftiness of your laptop you can blend into the crowd and rest safe in the knowledge that no-one knows what you’re carrying. Unless like us you’re sort-of tempted to carry the parcel while wearing a black trench coat and sunglasses and ask random people for passwords in a Russian accent.

• Gift – Gadgets

Price : £ 11.99

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Without sounding too paranoid, thieves are everywhere. On the streets, on the bus, and sometimes hiding in the rubbish like Oscar The Grouch. We think. Anyway, it’s never a bad idea to be security-conscious, most of all when it comes to something precious like your laptop. The Undercover Laptop Sleeve is a neat, light-hearted solution that makes your laptop look no more conspicuous than a big, battered letter – and nobody wants to steal one of those unless they’re a couple of stamps short of the full postage, if you see what we mean. Speaking of which, you’d be advised not to leave it hanging around any courier pick-up points or outboxes, or else you might find yourself running after a delivery van like a mad person. The attention to detail in this defensive device is great – the phoney address, the battered appearance, the crafty LOL Post emblem it borders on being cheeky. The size is adjustable, so even if you’ve got a lumbering great colossus of a laptop (what do you mean 17 minutes is too long a start-up time?!) then you’ll be able to squeeze it in. Similarly, your tiny little netbook will sit snugly inside thanks to the Velcro adjusters, making sure that your ‘package’ stays super-safe. The padded interior will protect your precious cargo from bumps and knocks (though you might want to think twice before using it as a sled and rocketing down the staircase), not that people tend to pay much attention to folk with battered-looking parcels. So no matter the size and heftiness of your laptop, you can blend into the crowd and rest safe in the knowledge that no-one knows what you’re carrying. Unless, like us, you’re sort-of tempted to carry the parcel while wearing a black trench coat and sunglasses and ask random people for passwords in a Russian accent.

Price : £ 16.99

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