Christmas gift guide: Great presents from £15 to £150

By Jason Jenkins on 11 December 2007, 5:02pm

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£40-£100

1. RoboBoa, £60 from Argos
This robo-snake can follow you around and show its mood via flashing lights and various sounds. You can even use it as an alarm clock. Why not go crazy, buy loads of them, create a robotic version of Snakes On A Plane and become a YouTube superstar?

2. Beatmix Bumblebee, £50 from Amazon
The Beatmix Bumblebee is a collectable that actually does something useful. Ram the lead from your MP3 player up its jacksie and your tunes will be blasted out its speaker. What's more it'll even flash its lights in time to your music and do a little dance. Much more exciting than the Transformers movie.

3. Alcosense Breathalyser, £60 from Drinkstuff
If you're driving this Christmas, don't drink, full stop. But if you're having a party and fancy testing everyone to see just how sozzled they really are, this digital breathalyser will do the trick. Blow into it and it'll give a read-out on how much alcohol is in your system, complete with an alarm for when you're over the legal limit.

4. Tux Droid, £90 from Firebox
This Wi-Fi enabled robo-penguin comes with open-source software that lets you program him to grab info from the Net and notify you of it via various quirky movements. He can alert you to incoming emails in the kitchen, RSS feeds in the front room, weather reports in the bathroom or breaking news in the bedroom. And to top it all off, the Linux-loving little chap can even function as a wireless VoIP phone.