OCULUS GO

£78 plus £4-per-month subscription, from shop.v.vodafone.com

THE latest Apple Watch was rightly praised for its health-focused feature, like fall detection… but there were some who thought it might be a bit complicated for those that perhaps need it most. Which is why the V-SOS wristband is such a great idea, and could give someone you care about the best gift of all – peace of mind. It offers fall detection but also a simple alert button if assistance is required. A traffic light system offers reassurance to the wearer that help is on the way. That’s it – no complex set up or extra features, and long battery life completes the picture.

£199 from oculus.com/go/

VIRTUAL Reality is slowly but surely coming of age, and while most people will have to travel to a shopping centre or dedicated games centre to try it out, I WOULD have loved one of these back in the days when the only way to follow a winter Test Match Down Under was to clutch a transistor radio to your ear in bed, trying not to wake the whole house up. Of course, you can watch the cricket on TV now, which is a lot less fun. Anyway, luckily for Soundasleed, there’s a lot more to this device than that – it’s a pillow with a built-in speaker and Bluetooth connectivity, so there are no wires to get tangled up.

Of course you can listen the radio on it, but it’ll also play you meditation sounds to help you get off to sleep, and it’ll monitor the quality and quantity of your sleep, too.

Howzat?