Treat your teeth to a gift

Treat your teeth with the new @colgateuk ConnectE1brush which is perfect for the tech-savvy and time deprived parents! It uses #artificialintelligence to track your brushing and tells you via the Bluetooth connected app just how well you’re brushing and even teaches you how to do it better too!

Brushing your teeth is a twice daily occurrence for most yet we still may be missing parts and not getting that perfect brush completed… Throughout your brushing journey you get smile points for each brush plus a percentage of how well you’ve done with an image displaying yellow areas for any missed areas or where you haven’t spent long enough brushing! The coach even shows you the correct angle for brushing too!

Perfect for adults you can equally get the kids involved with two games to play whilst brushing! – They both encourage you to brush certain areas to do better in each game meaning you get fab brushing coverage whilst making it fun!

The toothbrush, which has been designed with the help of dentists, provides real-time feedback on your brushing habits in 16 zones of the mouth, even tracking regularity, your speed and the angle of your brushing. The Colgate Connect E1 Smart Electronic Toothbrush connects to your smartphone via the Bluetooth app. This helps you or your loved one (including the kids) to prevent dental problems before they start.

For a super smile this Christmas shop now exclusively at @apple for £89.95!

AD | GIFTED item – #notpaid

The Electric Jukebox that serves up fun for the whole family!

The Electric Jukebox that serves up fun for the whole family!

Stuck for the perfect gift this Christmas? Then check out this @roximusic gadget – perfect for the entire family it’s a music trivia quiz, music streaming device and karaoke machine all-in-one that plugs straight into your tv! It’s simple and easy to use… and you can start playing straight out of the box!

ROXI is the ultimate family entertainment hub. In just two minutes, you can enjoy unlimited music streaming for a year without the hassle of having to subscribe to the likes of Spotify. Unlike traditional music streaming services, it enables friends and family to listen, sing and play together, powering the experience through the TV. Music is constantly updated from every decade and genre in a jampacked catalogue containing 29 million tracks. You can also take inspiration from your favourite music artist as ROXI tastemakers like Robbie Williams have created their own special playlists. 

Extra features: 

• Music trivia game, ‘Name That Tune’ – hours of fun for the family as you test your knowledge naming music from different decades and genres
• The remote doubles as a microphone so you can ‘Sing with the Stars’ – with tens of millions of tracks to choose from and on screen lyrics, it serves up hours of endless karaoke fun 
• ROXI believes music has the ability to help kids with learning difficulties, improve confidence and even aid spatial awareness. That’s why ROXI has installed a music therapy feature to the device, for all your ambient soundscape needs

ROXI – Music System, £99.95 – tryroxi.co.uk / Amazon.co.uk

Smoother wine, without the hangover…

Wine without the hangover… that’s Winning at life! So we tried out the Üllo Wine Purifier £69.99 to see whether it is worth the money and whether it makes the difference with taste and or the hangover… 🙂

Now I’m not the biggest on wine – but the in-laws know a good wine, so where better to test this modern, easy clean and easy use gadget? The Ullo Wine purifier also gives the option to aerate – Üllo is a revolutionary wine purifier that uses Selective Sulphite Capture™ technology to filter Sulphitesuls and sediments, bringing wine back to its natural state – [These are only needed for storage within wines and these can often make the wine more bitter].

Of course this needed a bottle or two to test it… and a good red was chosen to test, tasted before and after, we found the wine to taste smoother and almost lighter when used with the filters (One bottle filter)… making it an easier drink. – We didn’t drink enough to warrant a hangover (drink sensibly guys!!) 

The only thing i’d say is that we wish the filters were cheaper – at around £30 for 10… just because we get through a lot of wine at family do’s and with each filter for one bottle this could start totting up!

Buy yours now… online at  Ullowine.com

The shock absorbing smooth shave from Wilkinson Sword’s new Hydro Sense 5

Dad’s sorted with the #new #shockabsorbing hydro5 sense razor from Wilkinson Sword, it has five ultra glide blades which smooth the skin’s surface as it removes hair, helping to reduce irritation and costs £12 for the handle and from £14 for the blades. (Wilkinson Sword knows every man’s skin has different needs so they have two new refill cartridges “Energize” with menthol and “Comfort”
with herbal extracts.)

Buy yours from Wilkinson Sword online Shop, Superdrug, Boots and supermarkets nationwide. 

Treat dad to a Ferrari…

Car crazy dad? Get him building his own Ferrari F12 from Meccano It’s a novice build set with a couple of challenging moments making his a fun activity for a rainy day!

Buy yours now – available now at Argos for £29.99

Capture memories this bank holiday with Polaroid Snaptouch

The best way to remember the best moments is to capture them so they’re stuck in time ready for you to look at and reminisce at any given time.

Polaroid have taken the classic instant print to keep up with our daily lives of phone shots, and enabled their newest product The Polaroid Snaptouch to interact with your phone, so that you can auto print as usual, or save your pictures directly to your phone via bluetooth. This compact device, features so many features including a small selfie mirror to use, plus a nice large touch screen and inkless printing all in great quality for such a small device including Full HD video capability!

More detail below…

ZINK® Zero Ink technology for instantly printing photos

3.5 inch LCD touchscreen

3 color modes – black & white, color, & vintage sepia

Option to print with the Polaroid Classic Border Logo

13mp CMOS sensor

Bluetooth capability

Self timer & selfie mirror

1080p full HD video recording capability

Images & video stored on a micro SD card (up to 128GB)

We road tested this whilst on a rainy trip to Normandy, France, and it works so well, has varying light settings which help on the dreary days, and being able to share between my phone and the camera meant that I could choose my faves to feature on instagram too! Result!

So grab your friends and capture the moments to remember with Polaroid’s Snap touch, Available to buy online and in-store in a range of colours (including white, aqua, red, purple and black) at Argos for £139.99

‘Xperia-nce’ the precision

Sony brings us the new Xperia XZ & it perfects the fundamentals of a great smartphone. Packed with innovations in technology, it boasts a photo-pro’s camera, an intelligent battery and smart features that adapt to you. And it’s all delivered in a stunning, evolved design. 

Our version came in a striking metallic blue casing, created with a high purity ALKALEIDO™ metal, adding depth, shine and brightness to the finish.

We were impressed with the idea of the intelligent battery life, it picks up when and how long you usually charge your phone for, so that I can spread its full capacity charge across the hours it’s in charge – so say if you charge it nightly whilst you sleep – it will spread the charge across those average 8 hours so it’s. It overcharging a full battery! If you want a quick blast though make sure your settings for intelligent are off otherwise you may not get that quick zap you need to get you home after work!

The camera with three times the precision – Xperia XZ comes loaded with the advanced photography technologies you recognize from other Xperia smartphones. They’ve also added triple image sensing technology to analyse, adapt and capture perfect shots in challenging conditions. Life’s best subjects are rarely still for long. Xperia XZ allows you to capture even moving objects – before the moment passes you by. Bringing together the power of an imaging sensor and a laser autofocus sensor, you can freeze movement in the sharpest detail, even when the light is low. 

 We found the camera quick to load and useful to have the second camera button on the side for landscape use, alike a real camera. It helps aid the quick load from standby to camera in 6.5 seconds – meaning you won’t miss a thing!

Overall it’s a fab phone with a good range of emojis for those that love to use them. Unfortunately I don’t get on too well with android myself, due to using phones with other platforms since the start of time, but once you’re used to it it’s great for those that want a quick happy snap to treasure your memories with or to use along with Spotify for smooth playing clear music.

Remember this could be your Christmas gift! It’s not long now!

Sony Xperia XZ, £550 Pay as you go www.vodafone.co.uk

Find more info and specs over at Sonymobile.co.uk

Fire up the gift list

Pennybridge Strap Tablet Case, Black, £36.98

Pennybridge Strap Tablet Case, Raspberry, Small, £32.98

Saffiano Zip Tablet Case, Poppy, Small, £30

This Christmas, whether adding to your own gift list, or buying for someone special, add The Amazon Fire, 

£49.99 www.Amazon.co.uk

to your shopping basket. Thanks to amazon we’ve had the chance to test this out, and we are sitting here right now, happily typing away to post out our blog to you!

With many great apps, video access and books and my more with amazon prime and Amazon music and videos, this is a great tablet to work on, with plenty of social media apps, blog apps and games available we can use this to pass the day away too. You even have a rear and front facing camera for a quick product post too.

Great for kids or take the option to buy the AmazonFireHD for Kids,

£75.05

www.Amazon.co.uk
with a specialist casing this is the gift for the kids whilst gifting the adults the fire of your choice!  These are the great specs below…

• Beautiful 7" IPS display (171 ppi / 1024 x 600). Available in four colours.
• Fast 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and rear- and front-facing cameras.
• Amazon Underground: All-new, one-of-a-kind app store experience where thousands of apps, games and in-app items are actually free – including extra lives, unlocked levels, unlimited add-on packs and more
• Prime members can stream thousands of Prime Video titles, access over a million book titles, thousands of audiobooks and over a million songs
• Prime members can download thousands of Prime Video movies and TV shows to watch offline anywhere
• Enjoy more than 38 million songs, movies, TV shows, books, apps and games
• Free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire devices. Add a microSD card for up to 200GB of additional storage
• Up to 7 hours of reading, surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video and listening to music
• Stay connected with fast web browsing, e-mail and calendar support

Plus… if you are looking for additional gifts for you or your loved ones tablets (across brands) this Christmas, protect them in luxury with these fab cases in all sorts of colours including Poppy reds and festive golds, from the great Filofax. We tried out… the Saffiano Zip Tablet Case, Poppy, Small, £30, and we think its great. Not only does the case zip fully around all sides of the case, it has a hard shell case (back) to clip your tablet into which has the capability to swivel meaning all round orientation. You even get a Filiofax notebook inside the case too, so you can note down anything you need, especially when using it for work! 

As above: L-R, T-B;
Pennybridge Strap Tablet Case, Black, £36.98; Pennybridge Strap Tablet Case, Raspberry, Small, £32.98;

Saffiano Zip Tablet Case, Small, Gold, £40.99; Saffiano Zip Tablet Case, Poppy, Small, £30, all www.filofax.co.uk

Shop, shop, shop…  as you’ll only miss out! We’ve already finished our shopping for this year!