5 Best Doctor Who Gadgets

If the TARDIS is a sports car, then the vortex manipulator is a space hopper. It's cheap, nasty time travel, but it does the job as best as one can hope for! It can be used for communication, holoprojection, teleport, and time travel. An essential gadget for every time agent, like Captain Jack Harkness, although they can often be temperamental and end up stranding the user in an unintended time zone, like it did when Jack escaped from the Game Station in the year 200,100 after facing the Daleks.

River Song also possessed a vortex manipulator, which The Doctor borrowed and used in order to set in motion his plans for the 'Big Bang Two.' With a multitude of uses, the vortex manipulator is a very cool piece of technology - granting the power of time travel, without the inconvenience of remembering where you parked your TARDIS!