Our friends from Neyrinck are suggesting that you drop hints to your nearest and dearest to buy you V-Control Pro as a Christmas present. 

I have to say I did just this last year and got V-Control Pro for Christmas and it has been great. I even got an iPad to run it on too, which may not be as stupid as it seems as even buying an iPad and V-Control Pro is still a very cost effective Pro Tools control surface package.