If the people you’re buying for are more likely to be impressed by Gucci handbags than the latest gizmos, you can still inflict your gadget love on them and make them happy with these stylish contraptions. And unlike Louis Vuitton, they come in every price range too – skip the brainstorming and get all you need here!
Fashionistas aren’t usually impressed by cheap offerings, but this quality kit will change their minds.
Uniqlo Heat Tech shirts
Uniqlo may be the Japanese equivalent of Matalan, but it’s a damn sight cooler. Or warmer in this case: Uniqlo’s Heat Tech range are made out of special fibres that use body moistures to warm the lucky recipient up when they put them on. The shirts start from just £6.99, though we’re more than a little tempted by the warming underwear. What? It’s cold outside.
USB Heating Gloves
Apparently, mittens are back in these days. These are cool enough for $22, but they’re also perfect for the workplace too in winter. Flip them back and there’s cut off finger tips to type, but best of all, there’s USB powered heating pads in there too so the WPM won’t drop with the temperature.
You don’t always need to dress to impress – these fashion conscious products will do just as well. Put some clothes on though.
Crystal iPod case
For when a sock just isn’t good enough: this Swarovski crystal encrusted case will pimp out an iPod Classic for surprisingly little, although we doubt all but the most metro of men wouldn’t fancy the pink stars plastered across it. Prices start from £27.
iPhone cover on a stylish shoestring
You may not have heard of fashion label Moshi, but that’s because it specialises in what it calls “electronic fashion”. Don’t snigger: its leather-look flip iPhone Concerti cases are quality, and well worth whatever $40 is in these recession days.
So retro it’s future
If the person you’re buying for is the sort who thinks that “quirky” Diana off of X-Factor is the pinnacle of fashion cool, try this nonsense watch from Japan. No handles, just an old school telephone dial you have to call 117 on for the time to be read out on. It’s utterly daft but for $70 from Audiocubes, will probably entertain any teen trying to set trends. Innit.
Give them what they really want, something very expensive indeed. Luckily, these will last more than one season though.
LG Prada II
We toyed with putting the Porsche P’9522 have, but as slick as it is, it a) doesn’t have an Italian fashion house’s name on it and b) doesn’t come with the coolest Bluetooth watch we’ve ever seen. Yours (or someone else’s) from £300.
Asus F6V Pink scented notebook
We were tempted to file this sweet smelling laptop under “gimmick” rather than “fashion”, but the eye-pleasing floral design changed our mind. It’s got brains as well as beauty though, with a Radeon graphics card, Core 2 Duo processor and 3GB of RAM, plus a fingerprint scanner if it’s in a snatched purse, all for £635.99. And yes, it does actually smell, though presumably not of pink.
Porsche phone
On second thoughts, we need a bit more masculinity in this guide, so we’re putting the P’9522 in after all. We just can’t say no to that aluminium case, a la the new MacBooks. It’s not out quite yet, but the car company’s design arm insists it’ll be in select department stores (Harrods and Selfridges are definites) before Christmas, if you feel like spending at least £600 on a fast car fan.
