Gadgets, Gizmos and Tech is a regular feature at LGBTSr offering cool things you can live without but might not want to.

A friend of ours gives us the most interesting gifts every year when she visits. This year she brought us Alexa, Echo, and this marvelous little VicTsing portable speaker. Billed as a shower speaker, probably because it has a suction cup attached so you can stick it on a bathroom mirror or shower wall, it works just as well sitting on a hotel night stand. It’s very basic, and very handy. It doesn’t take up much more space than the palm of your hand, but once you’ve connected your iPhone or other Bluetooth device, it serves as a small portable speaker. You can listen to anything you’d hear or stream on your phone through this little dynamo–music, audiobooks, or a podcast. If you can hear it through your phone, you can hear it through the VicTsing. We recently took it on a trip to Atlantic City and had our own portable sound system in the room.