If you follow our Tech Central blog, you may have noticed a rather curious article last Friday, February 12, concerning soaring sales of sausages in South Korea.

It turns out that Korean iPhone/iPod touch users wearing gloves to combat the winter cold could not get their beloved gadgets to work. Cue an ingenious solution: sausages as remote controls.

This set us thinking: could a selection of British and European sausages pull off the same trick? And if so, which one would do it best?

Our Technology Editor dons his lab coat to find out.