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Well cover me in lemon juice and roll me off the plate, it’s pancake day again. If you haven’t flipped any tasty pan-based, two dimensional treats today yet then you’d batter hurry up and get cooking.

Especially if you’re going to try and compete with the following five fantastic flat feasts we’ve found.

1. Ninento Pancakes

“Pancake Dad” (Nathan Shields) creates incredibly detailed pancakes for his kids to eat. One of his latest creations features some iconic Nintendo characters.

2. The Crepe Cake

This is one massive stack of pancake wonderment with caramelised biscuit spread and raspberries. Check out the recipe at Lakeland.

3. Ryan Gosling’s Pancake Face

Here’s one for the ladies of Ryan Goslings mug in pancake form. Go on, give him some sugar.

4. ABB Robotics Pancake Machine

Food company, Honeytop had this robot installed to help speed up the stacking of pancakes on their production line. There’s never been a better use for robot technology.

5. Russian King Pancake

The pancake itself isn’t very impressive but the perseverance of these Russian folks certainly is. The folks of Yalutorovsk have been trying to make a giant pancake for over 6 years now and haven’t had a lemony whiff of success to date.

Well that’s successfully made me hungry. Which pancake impresses you most? Let us know in the comments and have a shuper shrove tuesday.

Bye for now!
Sam x

Hey Everyone

Here are a few discount codes for you to use on some of our great Christmas present items.

Get £5 off the Tetris Alarm Clock, use discount code: TETRIS5

Get £4 off the Remote Control Pac Man Racers, use discount code: PACMAN4

Get £5 off the Remote Control Inflatable Dalek, use discount code: DALEK5

Get £2.50 off the Ice Scraper Mitt, use discount code: ICEMITT25

Get  £5 off the Chewbacca Talking Alarm Clock, use discount code: CHEWIE5

Just enter the above code in the gift certificate box on the checkout page to receive your discount.

Have a great weekend!

This is it! The very last time in any of our lifetimes that we’ll ever see a repeated date like 12 minutes and 12 seconds past 12 on the 12th December 2012 (12:12:12 12/12/12) pretty neat!

So to celebrate this potentially absolutely meaningless string of ones and two’s, we’re offering 12% off for the rest of the day. Just enter THEBIGTWELVE at the checkout to apply your discount. Code expires at midnight tonight and can’t be used in conjunction with other codes. Discount doesn’t apply to delivery charges but place your order over £40 and your delivery is FREE!

Is it a special occasion, the mark of a new era or just a bunch of numbers? Let us know what you think in the comments or over on our Facebook page.

It’s not long now until a fat, jolly, bearded man named Santa will be making his way to your house with a sack full of awesome stuff (all from Gadgets.co.uk of course). Which means that if, like me, you haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet, you’d better get a move on!

We have just announced our final order cutoff dates so to ensure delivery before Christmas please make sure you’re all done and dusted by the following times:

Express Delivery: 4pm Thursday 20th December

Standard Delivery: 4pm Wednesday 19th December

If you need some inspiration, take a stroll through our Christmas grotto of wonder. We’ve helped you to narrow down your search with our various Christmas categories. I’ve included a favourite item from each to give you an idea of what’s inside before you go tearing off all the wrapping paper. Have fun!

Christmas for Him
(Man Mug – £ 9.95)

Christmas for Her
(Cross Stitch iPhone 4/4s Case – £ 9.95)

Christmas for Kids
(Star Wars Chewbacca Talking Alarm Clock – £ 19.95)

Stocking Fillers
(LED Light Up Laces – £ 5.95)

Secret Santa Ideas
(Insulting Hole Punch – £ 4.95)

Festive Deals
(Interactive Patch the Talking Dog – £ 19.95)
 

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had loads of new items arriving in our warehouse ready for the big Christmas rush. Today I thought I’d share with you my top 5 favourite new products which are perfect as stocking filler gifts.

Applingz – £14.95

At first glance the Applingz is just another super soft cuddy toy. However insert your iPhone, download the app and they become an interactive friend that responds to touch, sound and motion.  The Applingz will keep sons, daughters, nephews entertained for hours plus your phone will be nice and safe as the toy acts as a protective case.

R2D2 Pizza Cutter – £12.95

The ideal gift for any Star Wars fans out there, a pizza cutter that makes R2D2 sounds when you use it!! Not just a novelty gift this little droid has a sharp cutting blade (which can be removed for washing) which actually works really well!

Silly Sneaker Socks – £5.95

Everyone loves novelty sock (well I do) and this year everyone has been going silly over these novelty socks. The sneaker socks have been made to resemble the popular converse shoes and are available in three colours, blue, red and pink.

MOTD Mug Theme Tune Mug – £8.95

Who doesn’t know a football fanatic that always glued to the TV either watching a game or Match Of The Day? I definitely do! And they are going to get one of these mugs, this novelty mug play the MOTD theme tune every time the mug is picked up, yes that is EVERY TIME so choose carefully who you want to give this gift to!

Sneaker Pencil case – £6.95

Lastly we have the sneaker pencil case. Again another item made to resemble converse shoes however these cases are super realistic. The upper is made of canvas material and you have to untie the laces before you can undo the zip and put your stuff in them. They come in 6 vibrant colours, purple being my favourite and can be used as a case for anything, not just pens and pencils.

I hope you like my top 5!  Have a great weekend.

M x

Hey Everyone

Wrapping presents is a bit like Marmite, you either love it or hate it. I am most definitely in the love it camp and spend as much time making my gifts look as pretty as I do choosing the gift!

So this year for all you hate it people, we’ve decided to introduce a Christmas Gift Wrap service. For only £2.95 an item we will lovingly wrap your item so that you don’t have to! We have a selection of stylish Christmas wrapping paper suitable for all ages and each item you choose will be carefully and neatly wrapped by one of gift wrap experts. Each parcel will be finished off with a gift tag so all you have to do is write on it. What could be easier!!

So why not impress your friends and family with our wrapping skills and let us help you take a little bit of stress out of Christmas this year!

Please see the help section on our website for further details.

M x

Hey

I have great news for all our customers in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. We can now deliver to these areas at no extra cost. You will now receive our standard delivery at the same competitive UK mainland rates!

Plus we can now offer our next day Express delivery service to certain parts of Northern Island and Scotland, please see our delivery page for further details.

What’s more, as Sam mentioned last week if you order over £40 worth of goods you will receive free standard delivery. So what are you waiting for……get shopping!!

 A good afternoon to you all Gadget chums, long time no see! Sorry we’ve been away for so long, we’ve been busy upgrading the way our warehouse works so that we can despatch your Gadgets with lightning speed every time you place an order.

Because of this we’re happy to announce that we are now offering FREE delivery on all orders over £40 just to say thanks for shopping with us. Plus we now despatch up until 4pm. This means that you can choose express delivery and get your item the very next day as long as you place your order before 4 o’clock. Not bad eh?

Plus as you’ll certainly be aware, the season of goodwill is upon is and already the Christmas songs have been blaring at near deafening volumes across the office. If you’re looking to stock up on Christmas delights to give friends and family, you know we’ve got it covered. Check out our Christmas Presents category for some ideas and we wish you a festive week ahead!

Sam x

I’ve just met you and this is crazy but I’ve got an awesome Star Wars iPhone case so call me maybe?

If you haven’t seen the incredibly geeky and painstakingly edited Star Wars cover of Carly Rae Jepsen’s brain-hijacking pop single yet, you must have been living in the stomach of a Sarlacc for the past month. It’s ridiculous but it’s also Star Warsy so therefore it’s cool. Check it out:

And it just so happens that if CRJ does fancy giving me a call (which she is very welcome to do), I’ll probably be answering it using my force-tastic Stormtrooper iPhone case, here it is alongside the R2 version. In’t it neat?

They’re brand new in stock alongside some other cool new Star Wars lines, including the ‘Off the Wall’ alarm clock. Built to resemble Luke’s lightsaber training module, the clock requires a small wallop against your bedroom wall in the morning in order to turn off the alarm. This act of chucking something through the air is a great way to stir oneself from slumber of a morning and the clock looks awesome too.

And finally, there’s no need to strain yourself trying to use the force to open your bottled pop or lager. Use your lightsaber instead, or more accurately, this lightsaber bottle opener with proper sound effects and everything. Nice. Plus there’s plenty more where all this came from in our Star Wars category.

Good afternoon Gadgeteers. We know Mr Sun has been a little inconsistent lately, but at least you can count on us to brighten things up a bit as we’ve just launched our Summer Sale this week. We’ve taken up to 50% off some useful gadgets and ideas for around the home, kitchen gadgets and geeky novelties.

We’ve even included some of our top rated products amongst the sale items with 30% off a scanner for your photographic negatives, 25% off a Bluetooth keyboard for your iPad 2 and 40% off quirky baking products like our Pacman cookie cutters or skull cupcake molds. Plus there’s plenty more besides and you’ll find the lot in our Summer Sale category.