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Asus Eee PC 701 4GB:   IF YOU were inspired by the brave souls running the marathon, why wait until the new year to be inspired…

Asus Eee PC 701 4GB:  IF YOU were inspired by the brave souls running the marathon, why wait until the new year to be inspired to get into gear? One of the best ways to train is to monitor your heart rate while exercising - the Garmin Edge 305 does all this and also has a GPS receiver that prevents you getting lost. You can even get a detailed post-workout analysis with the included software, writes Paddy Comyn

Price: €66.73

Buy: micksgarage.ie

Cigarette Lighter Impact Wrench Kit

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CHANGING A wheel in this weather is both miserable and dangerous - so why not speed up the process with a powered wrench? You can take off your wheel in less than 60 seconds and it's powered from the cigarette lighter socket. It's ideal for cars, SUVs, 4x4s and vans.

Price: €2,599.99 Buy: connscameras.ie

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

THE 5D IS probably the perfect blend of a consumer SLR with professional innards - and this new, 21.1-megapixel version is magic. It boasts a newly-designed Canon CMOS sensor, with ISO sensitivity up to 25,600 for shooting in near-dark conditions. The new Digic 4 processor, combined with the improved CMOS sensor, gives medium format territory image quality at 3.9 frames per second, for up to 310 frames. Now the 5D Mark II adds high-resolution video, making it a brilliant two-in-one. A remarkable piece of kit.

Price: €265.68 (incl post packaging) Buy: expansys.ie

Garmin Edge 305

IF YOU think about it, the amount of tasks for which most of us use a laptop are not all that taxing and we seldom spend that long on them - so why make them over-complicated?

The Asus Eee PC 701 is great value and also boasts some half decent specification. It is half the size of a regular notebook, weighs less than 1kg and, because it has a solid-state disk, it will take the odd knock better than most.

It comes with Wi-Fi so you are ready to roll on the internet and this one even has a built-in webcam.

Price: €369 (Vodafone prepay) €399 (O2 prepay)

Buy: mysatnav.ie

Nokia E71 Price: €249 (€11 next-day delivery)

ACCORDING TO Nokia, the E71 is the world's thinnest full Qwerty device. It is Nokia's version of the Blackberry and while the first-generation version was a bit big, this one is a lot more compact. It still comes with super-fast internet browsing and downloading, and one-touch access is available to over 1,000 e-mail providers. It comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera, MP3 player and online sharing using the latest Ovi services such as maps, music and media sharing. Both devices feature built-in GPS with Nokia Maps.

Last week, the wrong price was supplied to Motors by Halfords for the Navsure N400i. The actual retail price is €599.99 and not €459.99 as listed.

Buy: Carphone Warehouse / carphonewarehouse.ie