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

Before you had a child, a cosy little beach shelter would have been just the thing for a bit of summer nookie with your mistress. But now you’re a father, and your mistress has left you for a man without vomit on his clothing, you’ll be needing a beach shelter to house your gorgeous wife and child on those hot summer days.

Beach Shelta Family UV Beach Tent (£53.99 from Travelling With Children)

Shelta are an Aussie company and should therefore know a thing or two about sun protection. Their UV Beach Tent is self-erecting (snigger, snigger) and takes only seconds to construct. It has sand pockets to keep it firmly rooted to the beach, and also comes with a handy groundsheet so you don’t need to lay towels inside. Unfortunately it costs quite a bit of wonga - much too much when you consider what else is on the market.

Nivea Family Cabana Sun Tent (£39.95 from Jacksons Camping)

A little more reasonably priced is the Family Cabana Sun Tent from Nivea, who are better known for producing sun cream than sun shelters. Their sun-tent is also ‘pop-up’ which means that it will be erect quicker than a teenager in a brothel. Sadly, it doesn’t have an integrated ground sheet so you’ll have to use towels to avoid your little boy getting sandy balls while he crawls around the tent.

Coleman Sundome (£14.99 from Amazon.co.uk)

Can the winner of my sun shelter buying guide really cost only £15? Yes siree Bob! The Coleman Sundome really is a top-notch beach shelter for very little moola. It has the all-important sand pockets for stability, and impressively it has a huge groundsheet that extends far beyond the tent. This provides a really sizeable area to frolic around in, and has the added feature that it can fully zip up to close the dome while you are changing, or perhaps to hide your huge Dadget collection while you’re out at sea. The only downside is that it is not self-erecting – like a married man, it will require a few minutes of careful attention before it is fully erect.

Henry and I have bought a Coleman Sundome and we’ll give you our full review very soon! (Full review now here)