This is the ideal gift for technophobes, scared by tiny mobile phones, with all their flashing lights and sythesised sounds.  Let your friend relive the old days with the retro telephone handset (£27.40).  Just don’t tell them it uses Bluetooth.

Remember listening to the charts on the radio, hitting record and stop to try and get all the songs without any DJ talk? This USB mixtape (£19.95) will bring back all the memories.  The USB stick can store up to 1 hour of music (64MB) – perfect for creating a mixtape, writing out the playlist and giving it as a gift.

Grow your own chilies from seed for use in your kitchen!  This pack contains 5 varieties of chili seeds (£12.95) including some of the hottest in the world.  Everything you need to grow the chilies is contained within the box, including compost.

Very few portable iPod speakers are any good.  The Bose Portable SoundDock (£279) isn’t just a set of speakers.  It takes the amazing sound of the original SoundDock system, and adds in a battery to make it portable. Genius.