This Gorillapod was shown on The Gadget show (Ch 5) tonight here

Which shows the following:

The Gorillapod is a gadget that combines a great technical concept with great fun. It's a little bendable tripod with jointed legs that can cling, monkey-like, to any branch, fence or rock to take beautifully steady photos in rough-and-ready environments. Who needs flat surfaces to shoot from? It's available in both compact camera and SLR/camcorder versions for

I'm going to purchase one of these or add it to my xmas list. I had a I want One of Those! magazines come through and they are selling them, they do look like a really useful piece of kit.