The perfect skin analyser sounds like a potentially useful beauty gadget - for all of five seconds. After that, you think: what's the point? I mean, if this gadget tells you your skin is perfect, sure, you'll be happy, but if it isn't, what's this little gadget going to do about it? Surely there are enough reasons to be unhappy with the world without paying £17.95 ($35.25) to discover that the softness of my skin isn't up to scratch.

As I've always had a tendency to acne, I don't think I need a device to tell me my skin looks bad - I have a dermatologist for that. But if your skin blooms like a fresh pink rose I hate you perhaps you'd like to pick up one of these and get a daily ego boost - they're available from Alternative Gifts Ltd.

Via Shiny Shiny.