Now don't laugh. Gizmology and gadgeteering is a serious business in which real men go about their manly business with dedication and professionalism. It's just that now and again a device comes along which - on the surface at least - seems utterly without point. Yet after a moment's contemplation and a few moments of testing and demonstration, one wonders how one lived ever without it.

The USB Retro Vacuum is a device that may well change your life. Inspired by the classic vacuum cleaner designs of the 60s and 70s, it has a functional brilliance - and a genuine niche to fill. And fill it it most certainly does, with real gusto. Now, rather than being a festering sore in your office, harbouring scabies and probably MRSA, your keyboard and desktop can be a paragon of virtue, fit for the clean room at NASA.

It not only works. Which is something that, to us is the basic entrance requirement for this online wonderland of gadgetry. But it does so with such unique style that it's bound to carve you out a reputation as someone of considerable workplace panache.

There are a few practicalities to note. As a USB Retro Vacuum Cleaner, it requires a USB port in order to function and draw its power. Coming in at only 8 inches tall, it is a miniature vacuum for miniature cleaning jobs (or miniature people). And the extent of its reach is some 45 inches. So don't expect to do the office stairs with it. Deskbound crumbs, yes. Industrial cleaning, no.