NEW GADGET

Picture the scene: you've had been a long, grinding day slaving over a hot set of spreadsheets. The office kettle is broken. The canteen closed early. And all you've had to eat all day is half a limp sandwich and a few crumbs from the bottom of Janice-from-Accounts' crisp packet. Then, just as you're about to save your entire day's spreadsheeting work, there's a power cut...

It's days like these that prompted the creation of the USB Armageddon Hub. Days when you want to tear your hair out and shriek 'Armageddonouttahere' at the very top of your voice. Days when flicking a switch, turning a key and pressing a big read button to destroy the world actually seems like a decent idea.

So let's all calm down and look at this rationally. The Hub - there are four USB sockets on board - enables one to connect this sublime tension-relieving, mirth-creating device to one's PC. The thinking is that by going through the motions of releasing a nuclear first strike, one will let off a bit of steam. And how.

The hub looks frighteningly realistic. It's solidly, built, too - enabling one to vent one's inner anger on it. And it saves it's coup de grace for the last moment, when all keys have been turned, switches flicked and buttons depressed... it emits a massive honk. Thereby saving the world from certain destruction and guaranteeing laughs all round. You hero.