The advancements in technology within the last decade has been great, no doubt about it. With new recent breakthroughs in the form of the new iPhone being able to recognise voice recognition to the new announcement that Microsofts Project Natal for the Xbox 360 is set to have full body motion sensing capabilities with no wires and nothing plugged into you in any way at all.

However, what do you do when something go wrong? Sometimes when you have to send your gadgets off for repair, it can cost more to repair it than it did to buy it initially. A large number of cases is never down to the user, normally it’s because the product wasn’t made correctly to begin with. Although the Xbox 360 has been proven to be the best console in this latest console generation, it does have one problem with it. The red rings. Now to any Xbox 360 owner, when they see the three red rings, it’s just the same as handing your wallet over to a thief. The only way to avoid paying around 50 pound for a repair is if your console is in warranty.

It was very rare if one of your older consoles ever broke like the N64 or Playstation 1, but now we are not just seeing Xbox 360 failures, a large amount of PS3′s and Nintendo Wii’s are also being sent away to be fixed. It could be down to more people are playing games due to the huge amount being released within the last few months, or, it could be down to the manufacturers not fixing the problems and just selling more machines.

There is a solution to this and it comes from gadget insurance. This can be bought for up to 5 of any gadgets and it will set you back only 20 pound a month. Although this seems a lot it is cheaper than having to go out and pay for repairs to your products. This is mainly because if you were ever to drop one of your gadgets like an iPhone, it would set you back around 100 pound to repair. So if you think about it, having to 20 pound each month to protect your 5 gadgets is not as pad as having to pay 100 pound to repair something that you can break over and over again. As well as this when it comes to fixing consoles such as the Nintendo Wii it is actually cheaper to buy a new console than top fix it which again is going to cost you a whopping 180.

You don’t have to pay to insure 5 items though, whether it’s an iPod or an Xbox, you can simply pay for Xbox 360 Insurance on its own. Unfortunately, a great deal of home emergency insurance policies don’t cover your gadgets like iPods and gaming consoles.