Well, my friends, it is time for me to hang my Dadget bag on the door and leave my rechargeable batteries at reception. Dadgets.info was only ever going to be a 12 month project and here we are, 12 months on.

It has been a fun time – combining my old passions of writing and gadgets with my new passion of fatherhood. Henry and I have reviewed an £8 toy car and a £1,500 pushchair. You’ve learnt about Henry’s sandy balls and his love of strip clubs. And all the while you’ve seen my little boy develop from a cheeky little boy into a grown man. Well, a grown 17 month old.

Thank you so much for your support over the year.  I would also like to pass on a very special thank you to my wife, Dawn, for being Dadgets.info’s chief photographer, and to Stefan Korn and all the folks at DIYFather.com for their continued encouragement. Please join my mailing list if you want to hear what I get up to next!

Complete archive

Reviews

X-MI X-Mini Capsule Speaker

Y-Cam Knight Video Baby Monitor

HeartString Baby’s Companion

Coleman Sundome Beach Shelter

Taga convertible bike/pushchair

Playtray clip-on tray for the Stokke Tripp Trapp highchair

Brother Max 3-in-1 Digital Thermometer

Wife approval

Tip 1 – All gadgets revolve around your children

Tip 2 – Discuss prices in foreign currency

Tip 3 – Be a woman about it

Tip 4 – Use her cycle

Tip 5 – Her illness, your opportunity

Tip 6 – Use eBay, but very carefully

Buying guides

Pocket money portable speakers

Video baby monitors

Family beach sun shelters and sun tents

Clip-on trays for the Stokke Tripp Trapp highchair

Child thermometers

Cool dadgets

Dadgets for steamy hotel rooms

Slingbox – you need one but you don’t know it yet

Prove your paternal love – buy a hard disk

Dadgets in action – Henry’s first tooth

The arousing LED Lenser P7 torch

Enjoy a bit of nipple? Try some tube seal!

Cheeky Henry defeats the Y-Cam Knight

Daddy’s Casio GW-056E-3VER watch saves the world!

Taga, the strip club facilitator

Taga is here!

Legalised baby racing

iPhone apps

iPhone Baby Apps – Pre-Conception

iPhone Baby Apps – During Conception

iPhone Baby Apps – Post-conception

iPhone Baby Apps - During labour

iPhone Baby Apps - Post-labour

Ideas

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?