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Win a charger worth £40

OK, so what's the one piece of technology you couldn't live without? The one gadget or gizmo that makes your life worth living or stops it from grinding to a halt?

Let us know your favourite piece of tech and why it's so important to you and we'll print the best answers in a gadget guide we're planning. Include your full name and town so we can give you the recognition you deserve.

We'll also reward those of you with the best 3 answers with a Freeloader Solar Charger from the Science Museum Shop online worth £40. It charges any hand held device anywhere, any time.

Email answers@bbcfocusmagazine.com or register to post a comment below (remember your name and town) to win!

Submitted by Andy Ridgway

Not remotely easy

Tue, 2010-07-27 18:03
sylbaryn

Having just spent 3 hours ransacking my house for a gadget, that without it the job would only have taken me 3 seconds I have to nominate the humble remote control. I just cant settle without it in my hand. You never know when you may need to change channel in an emergency. It's only when its gone do you appreciate it the most. I challenge anyone to go a whole day without one. God bless the remote control and whoever invented it.

Tom Green
Linlithgow

Tech version of whiskers on kittens?

Sun, 2010-07-25 16:26
Spike Matthews

For me, I would say it has to be my external hard drive. Being a music nut, I have gathered thousands of tracks ranging from the commonplace and chart-bothering to the bizarre and, quite frankly, rarer than rocking horse droppings.
That in mind, I would be utterly devastated if I lost my collection (I'm in the process of backing a lot of the more obscure tracks to disc).
Now, I think I shall treat my hometown of Eastbourne to a Spike Matthews megamix, featuring Kaiser Chiefs, The Goons, Dvorak and Miriam Makeba
Cheers!
Spike.

Oh good grief!!

Sun, 2010-07-18 22:38
M Paul Lloyd

I never even gave it second thought .....!
My Pentax K10D...... it would be like doing without.... lungs!? 
Digital photography has to be THE gadget of the 21st century, or I'm a plastic frog sitting on a fake lilly pad.

Oh and I'm from Seaton Delaval.... famous for having a............. fish and chip shop.

Nothing gives me more joy

Sat, 2010-07-17 05:30
Flakkarin

Nothing gives me more joy than my digital camera - it may not tell me where to go or keep me in touch with the world, but it reminds me of where I've been. So thanks Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35!

- Hayley Dunning, Weymouth

Squirt

Fri, 2010-07-16 21:05
Stimpy

My Squirt PS4 my not be as glamourous as my other gadgets but it has literally stopped my life from grinding to a halt on many an occasion. Every pocket should have one.

An obvious short fall of the squirt is it's inability to charge my other gadgets which is why I'd like to win the free loader.

Tom,
Dublin

Difficult choice

Thu, 2010-07-08 20:15
M Paul Lloyd
MP4 player has all my albums on a thing the size of a matchbox, then again my smartphone does stuff I only dreamt of as a lad (all those decades ago... ) Sat Nav is brilliant as is my net-book but of all my gadets I think my Broadband Dongle has to be tops as it can turn and lap-top, net-book or PC into my own virtual portal.


But... I'm looking forward to something that does all of the above, a personal pocket organizer l. that's my 'potential' favourite gadget. ;)