Even the fittest of dads can get tired when running around after the kids. So what should you do when you can’t hack the pace? As ever, some high-tech Dadgetry will solve the problem, and I’ve found just the thing to keep Henry amused while I have a hard earned rest on the sofa.

Henry has been crawling for a good few months now, but it’s difficult to get him to venture around the house without leading him everywhere like a very cute little puffy-cheeked lap dog. So I stepped into Argos, handed over my £7.79, and left with a radio controlled Mazda RX-8. It was the best £7.79 I’ve spent since he was born.

After popping in the batteries I took Henry on an extensive tour of our downstairs. And then I took him around again…and again…and again. The poor little lad did so many laps following the Mazda that he was dizzy, but the puddles of drool and the big smile on his face at least indicated that he was having a good time.

My only word of caution is that these radio controlled cars are most definitely not designed for babies, and so you need to keep an eye out for any dismantling by little fingers. Both my rear wheels have already come off, so make sure you have some super glue at the ready as well. But all-in-all, the car has been terrific value and has given me a superb idea for a new Olympic sport – anyone for baby racing?

Do you remember the Taga convertible bike/pushchair I told you about back in June? Well, Henry and I finally have our sticky hands on a demo model and we’re test-driving the heck out of it right now. Please check back here on 1st September when you can read our full review. Will we find Taga to be the perfect child-carrying machine?

Don’t you just hate it when you cycle your child to the local strip club, and then you have to find somewhere to lock up your bike? Well struggle no more, because there is a new bike on the block called the Taga. It’s a bike with a child seat that quickly converts into a pushchair – pure genius! Now your little boy can watch the dancing girls from the comfort of his throne, and you’ll never need to take a bike lock with you.

Henry and I are hoping to have a weekend test drive of the Taga in July.  If we do, we’ll be sure to tell you all about it right here.

£79 from Amazon.co.uk

Babies are renowned for chewing through anything that comes in their way – fingers, arms, wooden furniture, razor wire – and it can be pretty annoying when they chew through one of your favourite Dadgets. Watches are at particularly high risk when cuddling your child, so how about a solid Dadget watch that can also help with fatherhood’s other challenges – saving the environment for your offspring, and being on time wherever you go.

The snappily titled ‘Casio GW-056E-3VER Radio-Controlled Solar G-Shock’ is my Dadget watch of choice. Being of G-Shock pedigree means that it is resistant to slobber, milk-teeth, and milkshake blenders. The ‘Radio-Controlled’ aspect means that it automatically sets the time according to atomic clock transmitters through the UK and Europe. While having a child will make you late for everything, at least you’ll know exactly how late you are. Finally, the watch battery is charged by the sun courtesy of a solar panel on the watch face. So you will be doing your bit for the environment as you should never have to replace the battery.

I managed to import one of these fine watches from an eBay seller in Germany, but in the UK you’ll have to settle for the 1VER version which has a black-on-white LCD display rather than the snazzier white-on-black reverse display of the 3VER. Regardless, both watches both have the same great set of features and, in my opinion, look far more stylish than most of the chunky G-Shock watches that Casio tends to produce.

The 3VER works exactly as expected: it picks up the UK time signal with no trouble and gives me perfect timekeeping all day long; there is a charge indicator for the battery that went up to full after being worn outdoors during a couple of days of sunshine; and Henry has chewed it, spat on it, and given it dirty looks, all without any degradation in its desirable Dadget appearance. What more could a Daddy want?

Our Y-Cam Knight continues to impress (read my full review here). Here’s a screen grab from my iPhone from a few weeks ago, showing our cheeky little boy in all of his glory.

Sadly, Henry is now able to climb up the sides of his cot, so the Y-Cam has had to beat a hasty retreat to the top of his wardrobe. Rather than these great close-ups we now have a wide angle view of his bedroom, and we have to be content with seeing his little body wriggling through the bars of his cot. Time for Y-Cam to provide a version with a decent zoom lens?

We’ve all been there – you’ve been caught in the breastfeeding room having a sneaky look, and you need to make a swift getaway from the fuzz. As you make your escape with your pushchair and baby, the rozzers deploy their stinger device, burst your tyres, and lock you up for being the pervert that you are.

Avoid such inconveniences by using some Tube Seal (Halfords, £7.99). Simply inject this gooey substance into your pushchair’s inflatable tyres, and they become immune to punctures from stinger devices. It worked great for our Jané Slalom Pro pushchair, which was getting frequent punctures from rose thorns, nails and other sharp objects that we encounter on our travels. The added bonus is that I can now go back to catching a bit of nipple without any fear of the stinger.

I’ve often said that you can never have enough torches. They are just the coolest gadget to have and there are so many possibilities – the brightest, the smallest, the green powered, the multi-function, the military-style . . . I’m arousing myself just writing about them. Kids always love torches too as they’re great for camping, exploration games, and self-blinding.

So what would I recommend as a great Dadget torch? My current pick of the crop is the LED Lenser P7 which is one of the brightest pocket torches available and feels like a stick of pure sex when you hold it in your hand. It has a great retractable lens system that gives either a broad beam of medium brightness or a very narrow beam of high brightness. A switch button on the base flicks between different power modes, the highest of which will really impress you on a dark night in a field full of cows.

At just under £50 this is a luxury torch, no question, but you can’t put a price on such high quality and the dazzled expression on a sleeping cow.

If your wife ever asks for proof as to why you should have the latest digital camera then here it is. While this photo may look like a spoonful of vomit being passed between the lips of my unsuspecting little boy, Henry, it actually contains a whole lot more.

We first noticed Henry’s first tooth when feeding him – he opens his little mouth so wide for those first few spoonfuls that you can almost see directly into his stomach. But having any detailed examination of the tooth proved impossible, as he won’t allow anything else in that mouth apart from foul mixtures of bizarre vegetables.

And so here is the cropped version of the photo that allowed us a detailed look at our little man’s first little tooth. You can clearly see the little white stub poking out of his gum, whilst mashed up pig swill clings to the underside of his lip. How cute is that?!

You wouldn’t let your child juggle hand grenades whilst riding through the deserts of Afghanistan on the roof of a tank, would you? And yet you trust the thousands of precious baby photos and birthday videos to a crappy old laptop that you never even back up? Before I call social services, here’s an opportunity for redemption.

Online backup is a good start to keep the top priority family jewels safe (along with the lingerie photos of your wife), and I would highly recommend Mobile Me or Jungle Disk for that purpose. But online backups just can’t cope with the huge amounts of data that you’re likely to be dealing with, so then you must turn to external hard drives. The Western Digital Passport is a great choice for a small, quiet and reliable backup disk, but if you really cared about your kids you’d get a NAS.

Now I’m not talking about Nas as in the rapper who rhymes about bitches ‘n guns, I’m talking about NAS as in Network Attached Storage. These are hard disks that connect to your network to make backing up smooth, seamless, and hidden away. What’s more, they can come with 2 hard disks that both contain the same data in a so-called ‘RAID’ configuration. That way you have a backup of your backup – now isn’t that a wonderful way to tell your children that you love them? My current NAS top choice is the Buffalo LinkStation Mini (500 GB or 1 TB) – one of the smallest and quietest NAS drives on the market.

There are some Dadgets out there that you really need but you just don’t know it yet.  Anal floss, musical toilet roll, and inflatable testicles are just a few, but the Slingbox is another prime example.  Can I have a show of hands for how many of you know what a Slingbox actually is?  I thought so.  Allow me to educate you.

You have an expensive satellite or cable channel package at home, together with a digital video recorder with hours’ worth of recordings.  Then you go away on holiday or on business or to the in-laws, and none of that televisual goodness is available.  There are none of your child’s favourite kids channels, there are none of your favourite sports channels, and when you find yourself indoors on a wet weekend you can’t even watch all of those programmes you had recorded for such an occasion.

But just wait a cotton-pickin’ minute.  What if there was a magical box that you could connect to your set top box back at home, that would give you direct access to all of that live and recorded video content anywhere in the world via the Internet?  Welcome to the Slingbox.  It exists right now and can be bought for under 70 notes.  Want to know more?  Then read more about the Slingbox here, order one for a bargain £69.99 at Expansys, and eagerly await my full review on Dadgets.info.