Useful Gadget and gift related sites and links
Below you will find a compiled list of some of the best gadget, gizmo and gift stores within the United Kingdom.
If you'd like to be considered for this list, then please do not hesitate to contact Mad for Stuff.
Firebox is one of the UK's leading multi-channel retailers and specialises in the retail, marketing and manufacture of a highly select range of new and innovative products.
The world is full of boring products... At Firebox we try to do things a little differently. We search high and low for things with a twist. Products that are inspirational, quirky, bizarre and downright fun.
From Las Vegas to Los Alamos, Tokyo to Tashkent, we scour the world looking for the 'next big thing', then make it available through our award-winning website, mail order catalogue and select high street partners.
...The idea being that you'll find products at Firebox long before they make it to the mass market. It is our mission to always be first with the latest hot stuff.
I Want One of Those started off as a conversation in a pub between a bunch of mates and a cat. The cat was too young to enter the pub, but he wasn't drinking anything of an alcoholic nature. After shooting the breeze for a while, the cat announced it was a great idea, proving that the three friends had, indeed, been drinking more than was humanly good for the correct functioning of their judgment.
Nevertheless, in a blaze of optimism, they decided to give it a go and in 1999 they started work on the original site from a small bedroom. They started trading in January 2000 and haven't looked back. They have looked sideways at each other quite often, and forward occasionally, but never in the reverse direction. Had they ever left work and driven home, this could have caused some damage.
Our mission when we started Boys Stuff is still unchanged today; to escape boredom and drudgery through toys. Clever and unusual toys, backed by a company that wants to treat people like we want to be treated.
The idea for Boys Stuff was born in 1997 when we were partaking in one of England`s finer past times, (a Curry and several pints of Lager).
Since those Curry and Lager days we`ve grown quite a bit. At Boys Stuff we`re on a mission to eradicate the things we hate about some high street companies, like those extended warranties they frighten you into buying, (the ones that cost half the price of the product you`re buying and you never, ever use) and the ridiculously high prices they charge for the necessary accessories like batteries. Our aim is great stuff at fair prices.