What are your favourite useful gadgets?

My Tarot deck! It’s a handy tool to help me understand what’s bubbling in the back of my mind. Weirdly whatever I’m quietly worried about or hopeful for always tends to get outlined by the cards.

Etsy has loads of different ones depeding on what thickness of thread you're using

Homebird said:

I have a thin metal needle threader which is not electric

Would you mind posting the url? I use the wire loops but they break too easily. My eyes are getting worse too - must be all the reading.

I just had a look on etsi for one like mine, but they don't have any I can find, but mines not wire, you stick the eye end of the needle in a hole, lay the cotton in a gap and press a little knob at the end and a little hook, retracts bringing the thread with it and through the eye of the needle. It's only good for thin thread though, you couldn't use it with embroidery thread or anything.

pietro_21 said:

I have a weatherstation

I love my weather station too. I also bought a steampunk clock with a temperature gauge and hygrometer. It's great being able to gauge the weather before getting up, I agree .

A screw type pill crusher from Amazon.

You put the pills in the container and screw the top on. It causes a grinding action inside the container and the pills are ground down to a fine powder. I use it for my dogs’ worming tablets and other medications that can be given with food.

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.

I have a weatherstation, I helps me decide if I need to go out. The outdoor sensor is always a bit out by one or two degrees. Its basically an indoor thermometer and barometor an iphone can give much more accurate outdoor tempreture readings.

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.

My son just loaned me his steam deck. Loving it.

My love for gaming started way back with the ZX spectrum+. Lord the loading sounds

Other than that would have to say my kindle. It doesnt match the feeling of a proper book of course but its easier to bring along, I dont lose pages and is much more compact than a bookshelf 

microcontrollers (aka tiny computers)