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 Elektroskate Alltrack 800 was the last of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. It is an off-road electric skateboard which is the fastest, lightest and most powerful on and off-road electric skateboard in the world. This skateboard will go from 0-25 miles per hour in just 4 seconds.

The skateboard weighs 19 kg, the board is made from maple wood and the tyres are pneumatic allowing some serious off-road skateboarding. The motor and accelerator remote are powered by bluetooth technology making it very responsive and easy to control.

Something for the Weekend were advertising this skateboard for £700 but we have managed to find it for just £499.

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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 Flashlight Frenzy Disc was the second of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. It is a frisbee that lights up in the dark – great for festivals or playing in the park at dusk or night-time. This light up frisbee is micro chip controlled and motion sensor activated, meaning it won’t wear the batteries when you’re not playing with it.

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My Beating Heart was the first of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. Seema Parmar explained that My Beating Heart was the only cushion with its own beating heartbeat. Cuddling this cushion allows you to relax and unwind. Tim Lovejoy suggested that My Beating Heart may be good for putting children to bed too.

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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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No real surprise that the Apple iPhone was named Gadget of the Decade on last night’s The Gadget Show. The iPhone has been a massive success across the world and is a seriously advanced bit of kit. The tactile, innovative touchscreen, the millions of downloadable apps from the App Store, the built in GPS, internet browser, email, organiser, ipod, picture viewer, camera, video player, video camera – did we mention it also functions as a phone. The iPhone was championed by most of The Gadget Show presenters and it managed to beat off competition from Sky Plus, the Nintendo Wii, Adobe Photoshop and other great gadgets that have made this past decade great in terms of tech.

The Apple iPhone as seen on The Gadget Show: Gadget of the Decade is available on O2 and now Orange, PAYG or contract, from The Carphone Warehouse, Amazon, or the official Apple, O2 or Orange websites.

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Inflatable Hair, inflatable wigs, inflatable hairdos, whatever you want to call it, was the last of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. These inflatable hair styles are great for fancy dress parties, or anywhere you want to stand out from the crowd. And you certainly WILL stand out wearing one of these on your head. The inflatable hair comes in different styles: rasta hair, afro hair, elvis hair and a beehive hair style. Great fun, and at only £10, a hair raising bargain!

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