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Another weekend of lovely weather, although maybe the temperatures may have been a little higher than some who were running the London Marathon would have liked, it didn’t stop Emmanuel Mutai completing the race well ahead of the chasing pack, as well as setting a new best time for the London race of 2 hours, four minutes, and thirty-nine seconds. Of course not everyone was quite so speedy, and one individual is not anticipated to finish the race until Friday the 13th of May. Lloyd Scott who has previously completed the London race in a deep sea diving suit, as a member of the Beatles in a Yellow Submarine, and the Iron Giant, will be dragging himself around the 26 mile, 385 yard course on a sled dressed as Brian The Snail of the Magic Roundabout fame. On this occasion he will be raising money for Action For Kids accompanied by Florence, Zebedee, and Dylan.

You may also have heard about the fire that occurred on Friday and has forced the closure of the M1 from junctions 1 to 4 over the weekend causing some travel difficulties. There are currently still three lanes closed northbound, with the southbound carriageway closed completely, although the highways agency are currently aiming to have some capacity restored by about 4pm today. One chap made the most of the road being closed however, and ITN cameras managed to get a snap of him, dressed in blue dressing gown and slippers, as he demonstrated some ‘Extreme Ironing’ as he got ready for work this morning.

You may not have thought it, what with all our recent comings and goings to horse races, trade shows, highly involved crisp tasting, and other such activities, but being the dedicated types we are here at Gadgets.co.uk we’ve still been updating our site regularly with plenty of gadgets that are either new or, will be new very shortly. If you’ve been keeping an eye on both our What’s New, and Coming Soon sections you’ll have an idea of what is here and on the horizon, but if not I’ve had a look through and picked out a couple of my favourites from both sections for you.

In the What’s New section I’ve picked out our Personalised Retro Sweets Jar, my mouth starts watering at thought of all those cola bottles, my personal favourite! Of course if you aren’t as greedy as me this makes a great gift with the personalisation options available, and who knows, they may even share with you. Not so much of a gadget, but something that I think looks like good clean fun is the Goldfish Soap. We’ve had one of these little chaps here at Gadgets Towers for photographing, and they do look really cute, definitely bringing back memories of those trips to the fair when you were younger.

In the Coming Soon section I’ve picked out The Gyroscope, because it is really amazing. Simply set it spinning, and it will balance effortlessly on your finger. It is quite weird in fact as you think you need to move your finger to keep it balanced and upright, but it actually does that all by itself as long as it is spinning fast enough. The other item I’ve picked out in coming soon is the Lucky Voice Party Box Home Karaoke Set. Like most people I like a good sing. I also like to think that I can hold a tune, and put a vast majority of the X-Factor contestants to shame, and so I think this Karaoke set would make a great addition to any party. All you need is to have a PC, and a broadband connection ready, and the set is good to go straight from the box, giving you immediate access to over 8000 songs, which is enough to cover pretty much every base from Lady GaGa to the Beatles, going via Meatloaf and Fifty Cent.

This is just a tiny taster of what we currently have in these sections, and on our site in general. We’ll continue to keep adding even more great gift ideas and Gadgets to both sections, so make sure you keep checking back!

This weekend we’re bringing you some great news here at Gadgets Towers! We have activated a number of special voucher codes on our site, which will remain active until the end of the month or until all the special stock is gone, providing some great savings on some of our favourite gadgets and gifts.

Our first offer is bound to be music to your ears as we are giving £4 off our explosive Sound Bomb Speaker, using promotional code BOMB0311.

Next up we have some brilliant baking bargains with £5 off our delightful Heart Shaped Cake Tin with code HEARTIN0311, our sweet Rose Shaped Cake Tin with code ROSES0311, or giant savings off our equally Giant Cup Cake Tin with code CUPCAKE0311.

If you prefer a gadget that’s a bit faster and more adrenaline inducing code AIRRACER0311 will bag you £6 off out awesome Air Racer.

Finally you can also get £5 off our ever popular Lav Nav with code LAVNAV0311.

Simply enter any one of these codes into the voucher number box, and click on the apply to order button during the checkout process to make sure you get your saving! Remember these are only valid until the end of the month, or until our special promotional stocks run out!

The wind-up radio is so far without a doubt the ruler of the world of eco gadgets. Brining radio to everyone around the world without the need for costly batteries or electricty it also paved the way for other wind up gadgets such as torches, and walkie talkies. Today sees the release of what I see as being another ingenious gadget; the shower powered radio. If you are a regular watcher of Dragon’s Den you may remember this particular gadget as the inventor, Vivian Blick who incidentally worked with Trevor Baylis on the wind-up radio, appeared with the H2O radio, only to see the Dragons fail to invest. Undeterred he has gone away and managed to bring the H20 Radio to market anyway.

The Radio fixes simply to the shower hose, and is powered by the flowing water driving a micro turbine inside the radio, providing enough power for you to tune into your favourite stations and sing along in the shower, and who doesn’t like a good sing to start their morning!?

If you are of the green disposition there are many energy saving gadgets to be found in our Eco section, including some ingenious wind up items, but not any water powered ones… just yet…

As you may have noticed, our Mother’s Day section is now live on our site, and filled with a vast array of great gift idea’s for the most special lady in all our lives! There are a few weeks to go until April the 3rd for you to make sure you’re fully prepared, but we don’t think that we can ever be ready early enough, or do enough for our mums every Mother’s Day.

It can be difficult to understand just how much our mum’s do for us, even if we don’t realise it. I think that the only real way to know what a mum does, or goes through on behalf of all of their children is to be a mother yourself. They have a bond closer, and more unconditional than anyone else ever will. It doesn’t matter what any of us do, mum will always be there for us, and Mother’s Day is the one day a year that we can really show that we appreciate what they do for us. Mother’s Day can be seen as an inconvenience, another day aside from Birthdays and Christmas when we have to buy presents and cards, but we don’t. In fact Mum’s tend to ask very little of their children, but the least we can do is show our mum that we care, that we appreciate what they do for us, and that we love them as unconditionally as they love us.

I heard this song a long time ago, but I think it perfectly sums up some of things that mothers do for us all, without us even thinking about it. This Mother’s Day make sure you make your mum feel truly special.