We’ve all read about the dog that thinks it’s a cat and the cat that thinks it’s a dog, but we don’t think we’ve ever heard about a stereo case that thinks it’s a handbag.

Until now that is.
No it’s not a ploy by a tabloid to get themselves a bit of extra publicity, it’s actually what the new iHome iH19 iPod stereo case, describes itself as.

Personally we blame the parents, or in this case the PR company, for its confusion because we can clearly see that it is a stereo case.

You really don’t have to be Cluedo to work it out either.

The first give away is the two mini speakers on each side - it is also made of hard plastic which makes it far too stiff to get away calling itself a handbag.

Then comes the socket for headphones.

To top it all off the handbag impostor also has waterproof qualities. Yes, we wish our bags had this as it would save us spending all our wages in Louis V after another damn downpour but we are sorry to say you still do not qualify as a handbag Ms iH19.   

As if footballers don’t get already get enough money for kicking balls around a pitch it also seems they get even more for playing badly too.

Yes we know we sound harsh and we’ll get all the comments about how girls don’t understand football - blah blah blah, but this announcement from LG really got us going today.

Now don’t get us wrong we have nothing against LG, in fact we are big fans of its products. But we can’t help getting angry when we get news like this coming through:

“LG has helped put some shine back into the lives of the Arsenal footballers, after a tough fortnight for the club. On Friday the company presented every member of the first team squad and management with a personalised, engraved LG Shine handset.”

Oh please, the team are going to need a lot more than a phone to make them Shine (more like a double miracle).

You can’t give a bad team a phone and expect it to help and the quicker that is accepted the quicker they will be made to pull up their socks and get back on the pitch instead of being rewarded or “consoled”.

We are also pleased to see that our views about the Arsenal team being crying diving babies who are better off in the playground than on the pitch have also been proved right.

The announcement also informs us that “each player’s phone is engraved with their name, ensuring there will be no confusion in the changing room over whose Shine is whose.”

Uh hello- how old did you all say you were?

Oh we all like to be beside the seaside, yes we all like to be beside the sea, but unless you have a huge amount of air miles – or daddies credit card then most of the time this seems like a distant dream.

If like us this dream has seemed to rub off on your MacBook which has seemed a bit off colour and out of sorts recently (no we haven’t been dropping it) then Be-ez’s LArobe Island Collection, MacBook sleeves may just be what it needs.

The new sleeves are like a tropical bikini for your MacBook, and come in three island flower designs - Bali, Maui and Antigua.

Like most bikini they also protect its, um, sensitive bits. They are 5mm thick and come with low resilience Polyurethane (LRPu) Technology which gives the MacBook protection from bumps and scrapes.

However, we suggest you don’t let it venture into the water as it may  cause damage. Yes believe it or not - much worse than the damage done to our ego when our bikini goes see through.

Although we weren’t lucky enough to be teenagers in the original retro era we can’t complain that we have missed out. In fact we count ourselves lucky to be in the Retro00 era, where retro gadgets mix with the technology of 2007.

The Retro iPod alarm clock (IF200) by Edifier is a prime example.

It looks like the traditional circular bell style alarm clock, whose tinny rings plagued our childhood dreams. But this one has gone through a retro00 transformation.

Yes it sounds good on the surface but, like Michael Jackson we think it might have gone a bit too far into its transformation - it doesn’t have an actual clock face.

Instead, this has been replaced by a gaping space made for any sized iPod. Also gone are the tinny sounds omitted from the “bells”, which now disguise two 3W omni speakers.

Therefore – and we never thought we’d hear ourselves say this – we are quite thankful that the alarm element of the “clock” is still firmly intact. Well there wouldn’t be any point in calling it an alarm clock at all if it didn’t would it? It would be like chocolate without the cocoa bean.

Once the clock is synched with an iPod, it can be set to wake you up with the playlist, song or podcast of your choice. A word of caution though- throwing Robbie against the wall to shut him up in the morning will only do harm to your iPod.

Our house of sophistication wouldn’t be complete without a gadget we stumbled upon on our travels around the Connected home exhibition this week.

In fact if we are honest this is what made the whole thing worthwhile.

No don’t get too excited David Hasslehoff didn’t ask for the keys –Pipex wasn’t there.

We are talking about the Vexo remote control.

Alright just listen before you all start groaning because this remote is the most beautiful remote we have ever seen. In fact it is so nice that if it was a girl, we would be keeping it well away from our partners.

The Vexo is the Tyra Banks of the gadget girl world – it’s sleek, skinny and sophisticated. Like all pretty girls it also has everything round its little finger, or in this case round its scrolling wheel. It uses one button to control any gadgets that require remote controls. If this wasn't enough gadget Tyra also has a nice big screen that tells people exactly whats going on.

Hmm now we know about guys and remote controls but we think this is one we will be keeping firmly close to us, well the saying keep your friends close but enemies closer was created for a reason wasn’t it.

Beware Balenciaga, move over Mulberry, we have found a bag that will suit our fashion and gadget needs right down to the ground.

The ‘Lapbag’ looks like the kind of bag that you would expect to see on the shoulders of Lindsay Lohan or Kate Moss but has one tiny differentiation. As well as holding all the usual bits we girls carry about it also has a separate compartment for a laptop and a specially designed cable pocket for mobile phones and CD’s.

And there's more; as the laptop sleeve can be removed, the bag is also perfect for those of us who have the added luxury of taking weekends away although unlike Lindsay and Kate it will probably be more Bognor than Bahamas. 

For those of us who don’t, the added space is good enough to add in that spare pair of heels or um any other spare items of clothes – well it’s always good to be prepared.

The LapBag is made from 100% leather and comes in five funky fashionable colours, turquoise, chocolate brown, forest green, plum and pink and comes in two sizes, small holds laptops with a screen size of up to 13” and large up to 15”.

They are available from laptopstuff and priced at £160 and £170 respectively for those who have money to burn - in our case, um, let’s just say we welcome any donations.   

It’s the worst thing in the whole wide world – you leave the house after listening to the radio with a tune that you like stuck in your head, but don’t know the name of.

And to top it off when you sing it your friends they haven’t got the foggiest- no not because we can’t sing – they haven’t heard the song before, well that’s what we like to think anyway.

So why are we whinging about this we hear you ask? No don’t worry the site isn’t changing to TRISHA Boutique - we have found a phone from T-Mobile that can help.

The Sony Ericsson W880i is an MP3 phone which comes with a shortcut key to T-Mobile’s Mobile Jukebox and can help those of us who are tone deaf  and don’t know the song title or the name of the artist by letting us record a snippet of the song.

This is then identified by the programme and sent back in a text message. The full track can then be downloaded to a mobile for £1.

The phone also has a 2 Megapixel camera and 16MB of internal memory and is apparently the ‘size zero’ of phones, coming in at 9.4 mm thin.

However we’re not going to give it the satisfaction of going on about it- get any thinner Mrs phone and you’ll be banned from the Tech Boutique site.