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.