With its dank air of coffee breath and resentment, the modern workplace can be an unpleasant place to be.

Take our advice and break free from the office shackles with help from the ever increasing, yet always shrinking, army of compact work gadgets.

We've picked out kit small enough to fit into your pocket, yet smart enough to win approval from colleagues, clients and management alike, from pens that are pure executive Viagra to a laptop the size of a phone and a Bluetooth earpiece made by TAG Heuer.

Via T3.com