As I write this, I'm just back from watching my daughter perform at the end of a band camp where she learned several new tunes, and then performed them (as part of the school band) in front of a crowd of parents. To say I'm a proud parent right now might be understating it a bit, but you didn't come here to read about that. Unless you did. In which case, enjoy the paragraph you've just read, because that's as good as it's going to get for you. For the portable gadget types, read on...

Anyway, I travelled light in gadget terms. Light in this case meant a GPS, because I wasn't exactly sure where the camp was being held (she was dropped off by a family friend, but I was picking her up), a smartphone to stay in touch and a digital camera to capture a few precious moments. In this case it was the Sony Alpha NEX-3, because I'm testing it at the moment. Anyway, by my standards, that's pretty light on the gadget scale.

The only problem is, once you add in a wallet and car keys. that's a lot of stuff to, well, stuff into your pockets. Especially if you don't want the car keys to interact badly with anything that might have a screen, which is everything else I was carrying save the wallet.

If you'll just excuse me, I must rush off to the patent office to register wallets with embedded LCDs in them. Remember -- you heard it here first!

Regardless, being a dark and stormy night of the type beloved by clichéd novelists everywhere, I had on a jumper, which afforded me a couple of extra pockets, and that made stowing everything relatively simple.

The problem is, summer is fast approaching with the need for less heavy clothing. My needs for gadgetry are less likely to subside, however.

I wonder if anyone does a T-Shirt with hundreds of gadget pockets?