On this week’s Gadget Show Jason’s top 5 dealt with a number of ways you could enhance, advance and improve your tech life. Here were his top five tech tips:

5. Q-Waves Wireless USB AV Kit

The Q-Waves Wireless USB AV Kit costs around £85 and it sends a video stream of whatever your laptop or PC is showing you to your TV, essentially turning your TV into a wireless monitor. You can use it for watching things like Sky Player, BBC iPlayer and other media on your TV in high quality.

4. Vitamin D Video

This is free software which essentially allows you to turn your webcam into a home security system. It recognises when people come in or go out of a door for example, and emails you when they do.

3. Mobile Air Mouse Pro

This nifty little app for your iPhone or iPod Touch essentially turns your iPod into an advanced trackpad, or wireless mouse with which you can control your PC or Mac.

2. Earphone Cable Fold

Wrap the cord around your hand leaving the jack hanging a little. Pinch the middle to form a bow and wrap the remaining cord around, pushing the jack through the middle and pulling it tight. Hey Presto – no more annoyingly tangled earphones.

1. Tinfoil Wi-Fi Booster

Another free tip from Jason. There is nothing more annoying than losing your wi-fi signal halfway through an online gaming session, but you can use this tip to solve the problem. Get some tinfoil, Make it rectangular and place it next to your router, so that it can reflect signal from your wireless router towards the room with your wireless laptop, gaming console etc. You will find that the signal is automatically boosted. A great tip, and it’s free!

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The Air Hogs Vectron Wave toy was the second of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. It was described by the Something for the Weekend gadget expert as a ‘glorified frisbee’. It is a clever RC-style frisbee game, bringing the frisbee into the 21st century.

The Air Hogs Vectron wave has a propeller on the bottom and infra-red sensors on top. You can control it by placing your hand above it and allowing it to hover. The aim of the game is to make it fly to another person by waving your hand in their direction. It is a very clever and entertaining gadget – great for a summer day in the park.

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The Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 HD Camcorder was the first of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. The gadget guru explained that the Sanyo Xacti was the world’s smallest HD camcorder. It has 2 functions, the ability to record 1080i HD footage, and it will also take 8 megapixel still images, acting like a high-res HD camera. The Sanyo Xacti has a TFT screen which rotates 280 degrees allowing you to shoot footage of yourself aswell as the world around you.

The Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 is also useful because it records everything in MP4 format, which means you can easily upload your videos to YouTube, Facebook and other social networking and video sites. The camcorder is compatible with Eye-Fi wireless SD cards which allow you to upload wirelessly. It costs around £250.

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The Smart Globe was the second of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. It’s full name is the Oregon Scientific Smart Globe 3. It is essentially a fully interactive 3D globe complete with remote-control smart pen and pull out map. Use the pen to select a category, eg national anthems, then press the pen onto any country in the world to hear its national antthem. Other categories include amazing facts and language.

As well as being highly educational, the Smart Globe 3 is great fun, with over 30 games to play such as find the city. It is so clever that it even connects to a PC via USB port so you can download real time world news updates which are accesible by pressing the smart pen onto the relevant country.

This Oregon Scientific Smart Globe 3 would make an excellent educational and fun present for anyone young or old. It is available for around £100, £30 less than quoted on Something for the Weekend.

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Metal Detector Flip Flops were the first of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. Also known as Treasure Seeker’s Shoes, these flip flops act as a metal detector with the aid of a small unit you strap to one of your legs. They look like normal flip flops, but when activated these metal detector flip flops will beep or vibrate if you step over something metal, when walking on the beach, for instance. Who knows, a stroll along the beach could lead to you uncovering treasure and becoming an instant millionaire – making these metal detector flip flops an absolute bargain at around £40.

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The Pure Sensia Touch Radio was the first of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. This impressive gadget is way more than just a DAB radio.Gadget expert Nikki Moore explained that the Pure Sensia combined DAB radio, internet radio and a touch screen. The homepage of the Pure Sensia can be customised to show the weather in your location, online apps such as Twitter updates. An app store is on the way to enable you to buy more apps. As well as wifi connectivity, the Pure Sensia Touch screen radio is also compatible with your iPod or other MP3 player, so you can play your own music through its speakers.

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The Night Spy NightVision Digital Video Camera or Camcorder was featured on The Gadget Show last night. This night vision camera takes stills and shoots video in standard light, but also in pitch blackness. It comes with a 32 meg SD card but this can be swapped for up to 2 gig which would give you 75 minutes of video and a bunch of still photos to boot. It has good range for a night vision camcorder according to the Gadget Show presenters.

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John Bentley looked at cameras and camera gadgets on this week’s The Gadget Show as he went up against professional phtographer James Nader in a digital camera challenge.

For the action shot Jon used the Casio Exilim EX-FH20 which can shoot an astonishing 40 high resolution 7 megapixel images per second – perfect for action shots.

For the landscape shot the Gadget Show presenter tried the Fuji FinePix Real 3D W1. This is a true 3D digital camera, effectively the Fuji is 2 10 megapixel cameras working together. The lenses capture 2 simultaneous images, and the 3D camera then combines these images to produce a 3D camera or stereoscopic image in exactly the same way as human eyes do. The 2.8 inch screen on the Fuji 3D camera lets you view the pictures you take in full 3D.

Finally, for the water shot, Jon used the Panasonic Lumix FT1. The Panasonic looks like any normal digital camera, but it has a hidden trick up its sleeve. Thanks to the extra rubber sealing and a tough layer of glass over the lens of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1, this 12 megapixel digital camera is waterproof to a depth of 3 metres. The 4.6 times optical zoom incorporates a wide angle.

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The Jedi Force Trainer, also known as the Uncle Milton Star Wars Force Trainer, was undoubtedly the coolest of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. This is really good fun, for Star Wars fans and non-Star Wars fans alike. Yoda talks you through the process – the aim of the game is to get the ball to spin and rise up through the tube using the power of concentration and mind control.

The player wears a headset which features 3 electrode sensors that convert brainwaves into electrical energy. Concentrating hard will make the ball spin and rise up as if you were Luke Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi or Yoda yourself. The Star Wars Jedi Force Trainer costs around £60 and would make an excellent Christmas present for anyone remotely interested in Star Wars. Feel the force with this latest Star Wars gadget.

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The Zeppelin Mini by B&W was the first of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. The Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Mini is, as the name suggests, the minature version of the classic Zeppelin speakers, but Ella Williamson told viewers not to be deceived by the size – this little speaker packs a huge punch in the sound department.

As iPod and MP3 speakers go, the Zeppelin Mini is certainly a looker. It has power to match, 2 lots of 18 watt speakers and large air flow port at the back to maximise the sound of the bass. The iPod docking arm rotates for cover flow view.

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