Schooled as toddlers to whack wooden spoons against upturned pots, one's bashing skills are finely honed in adolescence and finally developed into an art form in adulthood. Men, it seems, bash everywhere. They can't resist it. On the dashboard. On the desk, keyboard, boardroom table, window sill. They got rhythm and are just bursting to let it out.

Now, with the technological help of the awe-inspiring V-Beat Drums, one can let it all out in the privacy of one's own bedroom or den for a fraction of the price of buying a real drum kit with real stretchy skin and wooden sticks.

It all works a little like so: two motion sensitive wands (not unlike those in the legendary Wii, only built for musos) are connected by wire to an electronic hub that 'sees' where the drums would actually be in a common-or-garden real-life kit, assuming you were sitting directly behind it.

Hi-hat, toms, snare, cymbals and pedals are all then imagined before you - one even gets a pair of foot sensors for rockin' hi-hat and bass drum kickin'.

And because we at gadgetshop HQ is comin up from da streets, we truly revelled in the fact that there are no fewer than four different types of drum sounds to choose from. Incredible if one fancies a bong on the electronic kit or a bang on the acoustic version.

Then simply bash the air or stomp the floor around you and all percussive hell will break out. Slammin'.