Because we love our gizmos so much we tend to have quite a few around. And with the variety of devices comes a variety of additional storage solutions. From SD cards to micro SD cards. How do we back up these storage solutions? Usually with a variety of card readers that we have lying around. But what about our SIM cards? There’s no quick and easy way to back up all of our contacts and addresses, but that can change with the USB SIM and Card Reader.

This is a USB stick that can accommodate a wide range of memory cards including MMC, MMC II, RS MMC, MMC 40, SD, MiniSD, MicroSD, SDHC, Ultra II SD, Extreme III SD, M2, MS, MS Pro, MS Duo, MS Duo Pro, MS MG, MS Pro MG, MS Duo MG, MMC Micro (with adapter) and the all important SIM. Being only 8 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm it is very portable and compatible with Windows from 98 to Vista and Mac OS 8.6 and above.

You can keep all of your SIM data backed up in case you lose your phone or it gets stolen. And when you upgrade your phone you have an easy and fast migration path for all of your information.

There is only one reader you will ever need with the USB SIM and Card Reader.

I’m sure, like me, you like music. Playing it on one of your gadgets going to work whiles away the time quite nicely. How about creating your own music or at least variations on the tunes you have at the moment. You thought that this was the preserve of the professional DJ and his mixing desks, but you would be wrong, because now you can mix just like the best of them with the USB Mixing Kit.

The kit contains a two channel mixer that plugs into a USB port, DJ headphones and a CD with the software on. Just load up the software and away you go. Two virtual turntables appear on the screen and you can drag MP3’s, WMA’s, WAV’s and many other music file formats onto them to start your mixing.

For the less skilled of us there is an Automatic Beat Matching feature which does just that. The speed of your music can be adjusted by the Master Tempo, and other features included are a three band equaliser per channel, volume boosts for each track, seamless sound looping, and a microphone, if you are feeling brave, for adding your own vocals.

What a great way for compiling tracks for a party. So if you feel like spinning some virtual disks and mixing some tunes, pick this up for just under £100.

In my bathroom there are no gadgets. No TV set on the wall that acts as a mirror. No floating speakers or lightshows that run to help sooth my stress away. When I’m in the bath I like to relax to the sound of silence. Now, occasionally I like to take a glass of wine in with me and light a few candles and maybe read a book, which can cause a few issues as to where to put them all. But I think the Bath Caddy can help me with this.

For wine glasses there are 2 glass holders that swivel if I ever need to move them out of the way. There is one candle holder to capture the right atmosphere and there is a book stand with an adjustable tilt for when I want to catch up on my reading without dropping it in the bath. All of these are detachable for easy cleaning.

The whole lot stretches across the bath to rest on the sides. There is extra storage compartments included for smelly stuff or whatever you may want to take into the bath with you. The Bath Caddy is made of polished metal with rubber coated handles to stop scratching.

At £19.99 it won’t break the bank to get organised for bath time.

Web browsing is commonplace on mobile phones these days. It seems to be a minimum spec for the manufacturers. And personal media players (PMPs) are following suit. So would you invest in an extra gadget that doesn’t have the screen size of a PMP and doesn’t have phone capabilities? A Korean company called Mintpass are hoping you will.

The Mintpad looks set to hit our shores around about summertime. Its 2.86 inch touch screen is tiny compared to most devices these days, but it is deigned to fit right in your pocket or handbag ready for instant web browsing (as long as you are close to a Wi-Fi hotspot, as it has no 3G).

Some of its features are a memo pad, a calendar for your appointments, use of the inbuilt camera to create individual contact cards, video recording as well as still images with the camera, standard music and video functions, the ability to stream internet TV, it can setup a slideshow of your photo album and offers full web browsing with Flash support.

The Mintpad is selling for around £100 in Korea at the moment, but I’m sure it will be a lot higher when it comes over here. The question is, will it be priced to make it worth people’s while instead of them buying a phone that does the same and more? Time will tell.

Who knows what we have in our households? We keep adding things and throwing things away - it’s hard to keep track of what we do have left. Do I still have that book I enjoyed as a kid? Have I lost those CDs or did I lend them to one of my family members? Where is that film I wanted to watch? Has someone borrowed it? These are everyday problems we find with our possessions. Or at least some of you do. And that’s why Intelliscanner have a range of scanners to help you. Their product for the home is the Intelliscanner Mini.

Basically this is a portable barcode reader that you can carry around in your pocket if you so wish. If you have a book collection you wish to catalogue, just scan the barcode and the gadget will store the details until you connect it up to your computer. It can store up to 250 barcodes before you need to download them to you PC.

When you are ready to empty the contents of the Intelliscanner Mini, the included software, once installed on your PC, will organise it for you. It will even go online and download all of the details of the product that you have scanned, such as a book title or comic book cover art or CD track details.

At about $250 you will need to have a passion for organisation.

I’m not much of a cook, but I try. I have a few books with recipes to follow, but the kitchen is not really the place for paper products. Splashes of water from the sink, spits of oil from the pan, flour fingerprints everywhere. And I find a lot of the books are quite large and take up too much space in my small kitchen. What gadgets can help me out in this situation? Well it’s just on the horizon and its name is the Demy.

The Demy is a gadget that can hold up to 2500 recipes. It has a 7 inch touchscreen display to view your recipes on. It gets its recipes from the key ingredient website where you can create and share your own creations or download those that are available. To connect to the website you just plug the USB cable into your PC. Once on the Demy you can organize the recipes into separate cook books.

The device measures 5 inches x 7 inches and is splash resistant and easy to clean. Other functions of the Demy are easy access to your recipes with one tap, text resizing for easy reading, and creation of shortlists that you go through as you cook. You can also set up to 3 timers to easily manage your cooking times and make use of the inbuilt conversion tool.

This compact device should be available in May.

When I’m writing I find it hard to concentrate when there is background noise. If the wife or the kids have the TV on, or someone next door is playing their music a little louder than usual it disturbs my train of thought. With all of the gadgets I have around the house, there must be something to help me. Maybe there is from Andreas Raptopoulos, a graduate from the Royal College of Art. It is called the SoundCurtain which was born out of the need to finish his assignments while surrounded by noisy students.

It is a piece of software designed for the iPhone that, instead of blocking out the noise, changes it with something kinder on the ears. The idea is to transform the noise into something that, after a short period, can be ignored by the brain. The microphone on the standard headset allows the software to monitor the annoying noise and adjust the replacement sound as necessary.

There are three replacement sounds, the rain masker, the noise masker and the harmonic masker. Depending on the external noise, the replacement sounds change in volume and timbre.

The SounCurtain can be bought for 59p, a hell of a lot cheaper than noise cancelling headphones. Now I just need to save up for an iPhone.

Pretty much all of our gadgets these days come with colour screens. The time of the mono display has well and truly passed. Would you buy a phone or a PMP with just a monochrome screen? But there is one corner of the market that does just provide this black and white display, and for good reason. E-book readers have this look because it is easy on the eye with the full sunlight visible e-ink technology. Now Fujitsu are heralding a new era for these e-Books with the FLEPia.

This 8 inch touchscreen colour e-reader is the first of its kind and shows the future for digital publishing. It has a resolution of 1024 x 768 and 260,000 colours. An SD card reader allows you to keep your books with you at all times. The 801.11 b/g Wi-Fi allows for surfing of the web and checking your e-mails while the ability to view JPEG files gives you the chance to turn it into a digital picture frame. It also has Bluetooth 2.0 and the whole lot is controlled by the Windows CE 5.0 operating system.

It has been reported that when running only 64 colours the time taken to change pages is 1.8 seconds which increases to 8 seconds when the colours are set to 260,000. Being the first of its kind, the price tag isn’t small running at about the $1000 mark.