Way back when I educated you about the Slingbox and how it was a boon for kids to watch their favourite TV when away from home (and for Daddy to watch Sky Sports when away on business). I was most excited to see an iPhone application for the Slingbox that finally gave me the opportunity to watch Sky Sports Super Sunday whilst sat outside the women’s changing room at Next or the feeding room at Mothercare.

Imagine my dismay, then, when not only did the iPhone application recently appear at the extortionate price of £17.99, but it also only works on Wi-Fi and not 3G! So when I am at home with full access to my large screen TV, I can use my home Wi-Fi connection to stream TV to my little iPhone screen. However, when I am out at the weekend shopping for women’s clothes and Henry’s anal cream the iPhone app is no good to me whatsoever! Shame on SlingMedia for allowing Apple and/or the mobile networks to render their application completely useless.

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.