Airdate: Gadget Man Christmas Special

The I.T. Crowd‘s Richard Ayoade presents a Gadget Man Christmas Special with gadgets for shopping, to wrap presents, beat the weather, cook the dinner and even improve your carol singing.

Aided and abetted by guests including Jonathan Ross, Stephen Merchant and Adam Hills, Gadget Man offers a surreal and funny guide to the best gadgets around – to help do the Christmas shopping, survive the winter weather, cook Christmas dinner, and even wrap presents. Richard uses a robot to help him shop in London’s West End. Actor Reece Shearsmith helps test gadgets for surviving snow, fog and long nights. Comedian Robert Webb pitches in to tackle the horrors of a Christmas market, including technology to turn your smartphone into a breathalyser, and a pitch-shifting karaoke machine to improve your carol singing. And actor Jessica Hynes assists as one of Richard’s tasters for his Christmas dinner prepared and served using the latest gadgets.

Thursday, 3 December at 7.30pm on SBS 2