Not a day goes past where we don't have to duck and dive into highstreet corners, puddles or similar to get away from the woman who is wearing the exact same dress or jacket as us.

Now, don’t get us wrong, we are not being snobby – after all Topshop off the rail is hardly a metaphor for “one off creation,” but sometimes we don’t like to be seen next to the girl whose legs/arms/ chest looks better in the clothing we decided to wear for the day.

So imagine our glee when we heard about Toshiba’s new service that allows you to design an entirely original, customised cover for your notebook.

The Lapjacks service lets you choose from thousands of high quality images, upload your own digital photographs or even create an original design and submit it for production. The designs are then printed onto an adhesive vinyl cover, which like a pair of Levi’s for you legs, is made to fit the exact dimensions of your  notebook.

Prices start from £14.99 for pre-stocked imagery and £29.99 for customised designs – we just wish one off pieces of clothing were so cheap.

Lets be honest, traditional Bluetooth devices weren’t really made for us gadget girls were they?

Not only can they be uncomfortable but they also make us look like a bad presenter from QVC – that is, unless they are covered in nice pink diamonds.

Also, if you have been blessed with Dumbo ears then you’ll probably agree that they also don’t always fit.

No? Well maybe that’s just us and someone from Bluetrek then, because the company has launched a new style of Bluetooth.

The MINI Bluetooth headset is an elegant, accessory that can be worn either as an earpiece or around the neck like a necklace. For those who like to share more than a bit of gossip the headset/necklace also comes with 7 hours of continuous talk time - or 10 days standby time for the times of laryngitis.

It is available from this month for £29.

Hmm, we no longer feel so bad about getting drunk and losing our wedding ring down the pipes in the bathroom – we wish we were joking - because it means we can now get ourselves a funky geek wedding ring as a replacement.

Designed by Seattle based metal smith Jana Brevick, the geek wedding rings are designed from old computer parts, such as male and female serial connectors, to bind many a happy couple.

If you are feeling particularly loving towards your other half, the way that these rings have been made means that they can be plugged together. This, makes an excellent alternative to holding hands – especially if one of you suffers from sweaty Betty hands.

 Now they may be a bit bigger than your average size zero diamond but that makes them perfect for those who are prone to dropping things down small holes – well a ring as big as this won’t easily slip down pipes and plugholes will it.

Ladies who lovingly made a compilation cassette tape to impress the opposite sex and who loved the sounds a chewed tape emitted - often like you had dunked the singers head under water -  will be as disappointed as us to hear that Currys is slowly killing off the audio cassette.

Yes, that’s right, the product we all grew up with and loved has finally been committed to its dreadful death by the electronics retailer who has bowed to digital pressure and is outing the product to make more room for iPods and mp3 players.

Currys will continue for now to sell existing stocks of cassette tapes, but these will not be replenished giving the products a shelf life of at least 18 months.

The store will also phase out tape decks by Christmas, which are currently available in less than five per cent of audio equipment – better hurry up get all you old mix tapes copied onto CD then.

If you are on one of those diets where you constantly feel hungry – that’ll be the starvation diet - then you may want to look away now as this product might just send you straight for the fridge/breadbin/cupboard/MacDonald’s drive through.

The Donut clock is a battery operated wall clock that has had its numbers replaced by handmade miniatures of the kind of delicious pastries you could only dream about. 
This includes a Glazed Donut at 12:00, Chocolate Bar at 6:00 and an Apple Turnover for eleven[ses].

Still not enough to make you ram-raid the local store?

Well how about if we told you the clocks also come with Sushi and Dim Sum miniatures? Yep - we thought that might do it.

If the wet and windy weather leaves you housebound for fear of ruining your newly blowdried hair and you want to do something a bit more interesting than read or watch TV, then the lightweight indoor Picoo Z Micro Helicopters may be just what you need.

The ‘copters, which are only 6 inches long, need no assembly or fiddling with batteries, you just pull them straight ‘outta the box and they are ready to fly.

Because they are so easy to use no experience is needed either – well we suppose we should put our pilot’s license away then. 

The choppers will take off, hover, turn left or right and will annoy your cat, dog, nan or whoever happens to be in the house, for a full 10 minutes before they need to be refuelled. Unlike cheap airline flights this only takes half an hour.

For those who like to make members of the family think that they have been invaded by aliens in the middle of the night these little flying gems also come with LED strobe lights – well anything that hovers around you when you’re half asleep/drunk looks like a UFO doesn’t it. 

The helcopters/UFO’s/ annoying flying things are available from crazy about gadgets from June. They come in Khaki, Silver and Pink.       

Ladies of bath-time leisure, we have found the perfect accompaniment to the previously mentioned bath spa lights.

TechVision has launched a 10.4" Digital Waterproof TV with a built in DVB-T tuner for that extra bath time entertainment. 

The TV, which comes in a sleek white finish, with onboard speakers, has been built especially for the bath or shower.

It even comes with a waterproof remote control which is handy for those of us who are prone to dropping things in the tub -yep we have shared ours with a good few books and mags.

At £600 this water baby is not a bargain, but the fact that you won’t need to pay anyone to help you install it as it can easily be fastened to the wall, or mounted using a vesa-wall bracket, will save you a good few notes.

As it’s not out until the end of May you also have a month to save for it.

However, a word of warning - we know how tempting it will be to sit and watch that extra episode of friends but we have told you once and we will tell you again, ageing prunes are not a good look!

If you are regular readers of Tech Boutique – and we hope you are - you will know that our obsession with Lin and Leo lapbags has got us into a bit of trouble of late. 

As we have said before, they are beautiful and look like the kind of handbag you would expect to see on the likes of fashionable celebrities and yes, before you ask, they do come with the celebrity price tag - £170 for the big one and £159 for the little one.

 So why are we telling you about them again we hear you ask? Well we have just been informed by the designers themselves that the smaller size is on sale online for a bargain price of £99.

 Now whilst we won’t be purchasing one – we’re still paying off the bail money from our little trip to Mexico
we advise you avoid the handbags at dawn, by getting yourself to the nearest PC and ordering one quick smartish.

Oh how we laughed and cried when Colin Firth tried to woo his non English speaking Portuguese lady in Love Actually.

Because we know there’s nothing worse than going to a foreign country and not being able to speak the lingo.

Yes, shouting and making wild gestures to show what you mean will land you nicely with a fat lip or prison sentence (depending on the gestures) but it often does nothing to help the cause.

We can also bet you haven’t got the time or inclination to sit in a language school like Mr Firth and learn the language either which is why we absolutely love Lastminute’s new solution - a number of phrase books for your mobile phone.

All you have to do to get tell that Italian/Greek/French/Spanish/German bloke that he looks like Brad Pitt is download the software from Coolgorilla, pick out the correct phrase from the 300 provided, put your phone close to his hear and wait for it to parrot it out, complete with an authentic accent.

Oh and Colin it's also available in Portuguese for when you want to tell your Love Actually interest that you are leaving her for us – well its not something you would really learn in a lesson now is it?

We know were too old to be getting excited about Hello Kitty products but there is something about the feline furball that’s hard to resist.

The new Sanrio Hello Kitty USB Keyboard is no different tugging as tightly on our heartstrings as a stray cat and making it difficult to refuse.

Or it might just be that this little typing gem is a lazy girl’s best friend.

Not only does it come with hot keys to connect to the internet but you can also use it to control your multimedia through the play/stop/change track and volume buttons.

Still not convinced? Well how about if we told you it also has an ergonomic design too – hmm knew that would appeal to the healthy people amongst us- yes you might not have any qualms about using a mouse to get onto the internet but you can’t argue with products that help RSI.