What are your favourite useful gadgets?

Just bought myself the wind-up radio I've wanted for ages. What are your favourite useful gadgets, tools, electronic goods?

Parents
  • The needle threader I found in one of the ancestral sewing boxes, it's not electric though.

    I'm not really a gadget person, I've got rid of most of them and gone back to basics, as I find they just clutter up cupboards, I supose the ones I use the most are my kindle, a bread machine and a food processor.

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  • The needle threader I found in one of the ancestral sewing boxes, it's not electric though.

    I'm not really a gadget person, I've got rid of most of them and gone back to basics, as I find they just clutter up cupboards, I supose the ones I use the most are my kindle, a bread machine and a food processor.

Children
  • I have a thin metal needle threader which is not electric. It is very handy due to poor eye sight. 

    On a similar not electric theme, I invested in a non electric lawn mower this year. It is much lighter than the old one I had years ago. I now prefer it to an electric one as no cable needed or charging. I can get it out whenever I have time and it is much easier between flower beds and particularly relaxing on a warm day, listening to birdsong and waiting for ladybirds and spiders to move.