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Well the sun is shining here again today at Gadgets towers and finally its starting to feel like spring has sprung. I’m not the only one to think this having had a look at what our customer have been buying this week. Maybe its all the talk of a great summer that’s got everyone snapping up those garden and bbq gadgets.

So on the theme of garden/outdoor gadgets I thought I’d share with you my top three favourite products along with the top three items selling well this week. So firstly my three are:

Sun Jar Solar Lamp

This is a strong seller all year round, it comes in 3 colours styles, Sun, Moon and Sunset. Simply leave the jar in direct sunlight and the jar magically stores the light ready to release it again automatically turning on when it gets dark. Perfect for summer evening entertaining.

Flashing Cocktail Glass

This does exactly as its says, it’s a cocktail glass that phases through seven different colours or you can choose to have it on just one colour. Adds a bit of glamour to any event.

Frosty Beer Tankard

Pop one of these tankards into the freezer for a couple of hours and hey presto a frosty tankard to keep you beer colder for longer. Also top rated by our customers.

And here’s what are customers are buying:

BBQ Branding Iron

This is one of our new products for this summer. It comes complete with 55 letters and spaces so you can pretty much spell out anything.

Egglings

The precious little Eggling looks and feels like an extra large egg, but crack its top and discover a garden ready for sowing.

AK47 Water pistol

This product only arrived last week and it’s sure to be a big hit this summer. I know Dirk already has his eye on it. It’s an automatic water pistol modelled on the AK47. Its trigger action makes shooting fast and furious, firing 4 “bullets” of water every second!

So there you have it, fingers crossed for that blistering hot summer.

M x

With the ever increasing pace of 3D media stampeding into our homes, it’s not so much the glass of water vibrating as the distant T-Rex approaches ala Jurassic Park, but more Godzilla in the midst of downtown Tokyo getting ready to trample everything in it’s path!

3D films are currently very very successful. Avatar has thrust 3D film into the consciousness of the masses single handed, and the assault continues with Alice In Wonderland doing well, and upcoming releases such as Clash Of The Titans, and How To Train Your Dragon (trailer below) only reinforcing the initial impact.

Sam Worthington, Jake Sully in Avatar, has confirmed he has signed up for both a second and third film in the series, which will surely be in 3D after the success the original experienced.

Unfortunately it’s not all good news as I have also heard worrying rumours that James Cameron is expecting to resurrect the over bloated Titanic and plaster it with as much 3D foundation as possible to try and make it look appealing under dimmed cinema lights in the absence of any sort of personality. I’m not a fan of Titanic, in case it wasn’t entirely obvious, and would much rather see him give the treatment to Aliens. Seeing Ripley taking on the Alien Queen at the end in 3D..? Surely that would be all kinds of awesome!

But back to my point, 3D films are grossing well in cinemas, Sky are getting ready to launch their 3D HDTV service, and where TV goes, gaming soon follows, with the X-Box and PS3 already embracing HD gaming, and reportedly the Wii joining them in the not too distant future. Having lagged a little as far as home gaming is concerned Nintendo have released a statement today (as reported here) advising that at E3 they will unveil the next evolution of handheld gaming, the 3DS. Yes, with the next generation of handheld gaming from Nintendo you can, in their own words “enjoy 3D effects without the need for any special glasses.”

The only real information available at the moment is that Nintendo 3DS is a temporary name, the device will be backwards compatible with all currently available DS games, and a release date of prior to March 2011 is being targeted for the device being available in Japan. More information will be forthcoming at E3 later in the year.

In the past I have doubted Nintendo. I doubted that the progression to 3D games, as they were in 1998, was a good step, but after 15 minutes of quality time spent with The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time I was convinced enough to go out and purchase my own Nintendo 64. When I first heard about the Wii, again my doubts surfaced, would it work well enough, would it actually be fun, or frustrating? Once again, after a short time spent with the Wii my doubts were beaten into submission. So going forwards, whist I again find myself querying how effective this will be, I have to be of the opinion that if anyone can do it, Nintendo can!