Tech Eye: Pack this in your stocking

For the previous dozen or so years, Father had insisted we were brought into the world on Christmas Day, so rather than get the customary two gifts a year of half-a-pig, we only got one. Despite us displaying the guile of Inspector Morse, the cunning swine sidestepped our skullduggery for another few years, when he brought us to the local graveyard on Christmas morning to show us where Santa was buried. I wouldn't have believed him, giving his earlier misdeeds, but the deviant had even rigged up a mock gravestone to complete the ruse, and all to save the old skinflint a few measly shekels.

However, we did not let that spoil our festive cheer and we always enjoy the Christmas season to the full. Taking potshots with our trusty air rifle at carol signers that convene on our doorstep is always a lark. Picking the pockets of shoppers on the thronged streets is too easy to resist at this time of year, and it wouldn't be Christmas without the temporary blindness and incapacitation that comes after imbibing Granny TechEye's particular brand of festive egg nog.

So, if you're looking for something tiny to shove into a Christmas stocking you could do worse than the James Bond-monikered DV007. What poses as an MP4 camcorder also works as a 3MP digicam, MP3 player, voice recorder and webcam. It's got a built-in speaker so you can watch films, and an AV out. At around zł.1,150 it's the tiniest bargain in town, since that chap Tim was fencing anything that wasn't nailed down, and you can get one from www.wsinspire.com.