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If you or your kids are obsessed with a certain bespectacled boy wizard, you’ll no-doubt already have magic wands lying about the house, not to mention broomsticks, owls, cloaks and assorted Harry Potter stuff.If on the other hand you are a long suffering wife or partner who’s never heard of Hogwarts, but is still tired of the largely male obsession of clutching the TV remote and dictating what you watch, you may be yearning for something that will confer a magical touch and restore control to you.

Despair not long suffering lady.  Gifts for her to realise that fantasy are at last here. The wand remote control is radically different to anything you may have considered waggling before.It has powers over the telly!In fact, it can control most things that require a remote control, making you seem like a witch able to perform some pretty incredible magic spells without the need to spout gibberish.After you’ve learnt the basics you’ll be able to programme your wand to control the volume, channel, brightness or whatever else your existing remote can do.And it can do the same for several devices at once (yes, just like a woman it can multi channel process).

It’s not too shabby a choice for boys toys either, because a turning motion will control the volume and that’s all in the wrist – a familiar technique to most sofa-bound males.  Just sweep the wand up or down to move the channel forward or back and double-tapping on any surface will perform whatever action you assign to it. In all there are 13 different and almost balletic swoosh’s, sweeps and swoops to learn.  All you have to do is put your wand into ‘learning mode’ by giving it a quick tap on the shaft, perform the move you want, and then press the corresponding key on the remote control.The wand remembers it and performs the same function assigned next time you do the same move.

Shame that unusual gifts like these weren’t available at Westfield Shopping Centre in London over Christmas when Mariah Carey insisted on a wand to ‘wave’ (not switch) on the mall’s Christmas lights.After all, she’d got the OK for her other demands of 20 white kittens, 100 white doves, butterfly-shaped confetti, a pink carpet, 80 security guards and a Rolls Royce .Not even Hermione Granger merits that – but then she doesn’t have the TV wand!

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Three wise men following a star – nothing bonkers about that.Thousands of paparazzi follow, not to mention stalk, stars today and nobody bats an eyelid or feels the urge to go and find the offspring of a deity.  But take gazing up at a blanket of stars scattered across the vaulted dome of the heavens – that’s one of life’s great and simple pleasures. Whether you’re a casual stargazer, spend the whole night attached to your telescope, or simply  happen to be lying in the gutter coming over all Oscar Wilde,  we all want to make our mark in the sky.

So if you are pondering Christmas presents for a dad, brother or uncle, why not name their very own star?It’s permanent as the constellations won’t change their apparent positions for at least a couple of million years and is far more stylish that the “we love you dad” messages scrawled on a bed sheet and adorning the most convenient roundabout.  Unusual gifts like the Name a Star set have the added bonus of suggesting that you really thought hard about it!The set comes with coordinates and a star wall map so you can spot your star and details of how to register the issued star on the Star Registry.

As far as gifts for him go, this one has to be the zenith! The star will officially be titled with your chosen name and once registered you receive an ornate official certificate. Information on stars’ names is also periodically released to the British Library so it’s entirely possible that yours could make it in there.Of course it’s not possible to assign legal ownership to a star and just because your name is attached to it doesn’t give you any legal title.  Nor will the astronomical authorities and catalogues necessarily use the name assigned, but you can at least point out the one dot light years away that has your name on it to any who may be remotely interested and genuinely claim to be a real star!

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