Now, in fairness, quite a few of Gadget Inspector's products would probably come in handy on a stag night. We've got drinking accessories, fancy dress costumes, and if you want your bachelor party to have a slightly surreal edge, a Flying Shark. Plenty of fun for stags of all sorts, we're sure you'll agree.

But why would you shop for your stag night bits here when we've got a whole other site dedicated to that sort of thing? stagstuff.co.uk is our newborn sister site (although 'brother site' would perhaps be more appropriate), and it's the perfect place to go if you're organising a stag do for yourself or a friend! We know how stressful it can be - there's a lot of pressure on the party organiser to really knock it out of the park - so pay stag stuff a visit today and fill your boots with brilliant stag party ideas.

Fancy entering yet another gadget competition? Of course you do! Especially since this week's prize is one of our most popular items of all time - the magnificently manly Grenade Mug! We've sold a lot of these during our reign as the best gadget website in the world, and we're sure that you're already feeling a little bit ashamed of the bland, boring mugs that currently populate your kitchen cupboard.

Everyone needs a grenade mug in their life, but don't worry if you've not got £7.99 to spare right now because there's a chance - a slender chance, but a chance nonetheless - that you could get your filthy mitts on one of our mugs without paying a penny! Our current gadget competition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; you could become the proud owner of a gratis grenade mug, and all you have to do is answer this question:

Why do you deserve a cup of tea this week?

Perhaps you've been rescuing kittens from trees, or building furniture, or just putting up with your demonic monster of a boss. Tweet your answer to @Gadget_Inspect, and the grenade mug will go to the most deserving entrant.

We'll tweet the winner at 1pm on Friday the 5th of July. And if you're not on Twitter...you're behind the times. Sign up today or risk becoming obsolete!

Allow us to paint a picture for you. It's a warm summer evening, you've flung open all of the windows to get a bit of air circulating around, and you're just about to have you tea when a big ol' fly buzzes in and goes straight for your dinner plate. He seems to have designs on your mashed potatoes; you frantically try to shoo him away but this bug just won't stop bugging you.

It's annoying, isnt' it? We should be able to get some fresh air in the summertime without being bothered by flies and wasps and all the other myriad minibeasts who can't help but invite themselves inside. We at Gadget Inspector were sick and tired of little buzzy things in the office, and while we haven't been watching Wimbledon too closely (we prefer badminton), all the recent tennis talk did give us an idea.

Introducing the Electronic Bug Zapper! This nifty little gadget could prove to be a huge breakthrough in the war against bugkind; simply give your insect oppressors a swift swat with the zapper, and...well, let's just say that they won't bother you anymore.

The bug zappers are just £6.99 each right now, and since they're shaped like tennis racquets, they're very satisfying to brandish. Get yours now, and enjoy your summertime teatimes in peace!

All of our hip young friends have forsaken us in favour of the Glastonbury festival this week. It's weird; everyone left on Tuesday, but we've checked online and it seems like there's no actual music until Friday. What are they doing in the meantime -twiddling their thumbs?

Oh well. This blog post is probably a bit late for Glastonbury-goers, but if you're attending any music festivals later this summer, then we've got a couple of fab festival products that no tent-dwelling music fan should be without:

• Our Festival Feet are an innovative alternative to wellies. If you'd rather wear your usual, comfortable footwear when you're wandering around the festival site, simply put these protective covers over your shoes and head for the main stage, safe in the knowledge that your favourite shoes aren't getting ruined.
  
  
• It can get pretty boring when you're waiting for the arena to open and the bands to start, so why not invest in a Wicked Wedge to lounge around on while you wait? This inflatable festival accessory is super-comfortable, and it puts you in the perfect position for a bit of light reading.

The 21st of June has been and gone, so we can now officially say that it's summertime. And that means long days, summery smells, and plenty of wonderful warm sunshine. Not that anyone here at Gadget Inspector will notice; we're all planning to spend our summers indoors, playing video games. Just like always!

So, will you be drawing the curtains and settling in for some spectacular console action this summer? And if so, which games will you be playing? With over 30 years of history to draw upon, there's an almost infinite selection of stuff for the summertime gamer to choose from, and we...what's that? You'll be playing nothing but Call of Duty from now until September? Oh.

War games might be all well and good for some people, but the Gadget Inspector office is populated with guys and gals who never really let go of their old games. This is why our gadget website is so chocka with retro gaming paraphernalia; we've got Tetris Lights coming out our ears, but there's not a Master Chief bobble head or a Nathan Drake bottle opener in sight. Perhaps this is something of an oversight on our part - a lot of people have played the Uncharted series, so a range of Nathan Drake gadgets might actually sell pretty well!

But our allegiance will always lie with retro games. Modern stuff is very impressive, and they've done very well to make everything look life-like and cinematic, but if we want something like that then we'll go to the pictures, thank you very much. Give us a pixellated wheel of cheese being chased around a labyrinth by four wide-eyed ghost thingies; give us an assortment of falling blocks that disappear when arranged in a certain way; give us simple, instantly playable, not-cinematic-but-still-incredibly-immersive gameplay any day of the week.

So that's why we're sticking with retro games. The day we acknowledge any game that was released this side of the millennium is the day we forget who we are. Enjoy your summers