Fifteen-minute meals and breakdancing mice: the gifts of Christmas future | Charlie Brooker

The most popular gifts this festive season speak volumes about us as a species Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a perfunctory series of interpersonal product exchanges, and 2012 is no exception. Money itself may be having a nervous breakdown but the shops are still heaving with delighted customers, most of them experiencing a surge of capitalist euphoria so intense their faces simply can't interpret it properly, and instead have to make do with broadcasting a frozen, bewildered expression...