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Hello this week, the Naked Scientist's Guide to Surviving at Christmas,

including our top scientifically tested tips for cooking turkey and making the best roast potatoes.

Plus a healthy helping of rather crappy Christmas cracker dose.

How to Avoid A Fested Family Feud and can Christmas pudding get you drunk.

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Now to kick off. Now to kick off for the gadget-minded among you, Isie Clark has got a few gifts up her sleeve that might help to take the stress out of Christmas and the New Year.

Isie, what do you think would be worth a look at this year?

One device I found, which is a little bit different from your iPads and any other

tablets, is a smart notebook.

It looks like a normal notebook, but actually it's got this digital paper-like screen,

you write on it, and it's attached to all of your cloud services so if you want to jot down the list or a little

reminder or perhaps you work in the arts and it's quite creative in sketches it automatically

sends anything you've written onto one of these cloud services.

But bizarrely, to clear your notes, there's one model which you put in the microwave,

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