GADGET GURU

This issue Can gadgets sort my poor posture? How can I keep batteries charged on the move? Ear buds, or cans, Guru? How do I start longboarding? Help! My phone is getting hot Can you help me stop biting my nails?

frank ireland, lancashire

Guru, can gadgets sort my poor posture?

Guru has a hunch (ha!) that you’re not a professional volleyball player or one of those flipping parkourists, and that you spend much of your time as GaGu does: sat at a desk. This is just about the worst thing you can do for your poor skeleton beyond tearing it out and playing its ribs like a xylophone, and yet we all do it. A

Solution one, then: change your gear. Get a standing desk, or try the cardboard Ergodriven Spark (around £20) or something more substantial like the £330 StarTech Standing Desk Converter – these can turn any old surface into something you can stand at.

If you’re going to sit, park your rear on something that encourages that good sittin’, rather than a dodgy office chair you found in a skip. That one’s a rare freebie from Guru’s long-suffering