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.

You were once a single man who loved to buy gadgets but then, through some mind-trickery that you still haven’t quite figured out, you decided to get married.  Suddenly, even the purchase of a novelty USB missile launcher involved many painful hours of negotiation and countless back/shoulder/foot massages.

Yet another benefit of sex

However, after a particularly potent bottle of rosé (taken orally) and a good hot helping of your fine semen (delivered vaginally), you became a dad.  Right from the start your wife was approving a whole heap of gadgets from wireless listening devices to industrial tit-suckers.   Now you need to carry that momentum forward.

You must find a way to turn every gadget into a gadget that will enhance your family life.  You need to create the perfect argument so that your wife will casually agree to you buying televisions, torches, beer fridges, and things that look pretty cool although you’re not quite sure what they’re supposed to do.

Dadget handholding, blog-style

Dadgets.info will be here to guide you along the way.  I’ll provide you with information on a whole heap of gadgets for dads, as well as helping you to craft just the right excuses to convince your wife that buying a lava lamp iPod dock is the only way to find true happiness during the credit crunch.

But why should you trust Craig Alan Williamson?  Well, I’ve been married to Dawn since 2005, I’ve been a dad to Henry since 2008, and I still managed to persuade my wife that we really needed a 40” LCD TV and a 42” Plasma.  I have much wisdom to share with you.