This deliciously delicate brew has been hand – or rather paw – picked by specially trained monkeys. No, really! The industrious little fur balls are famous in China, and the leaves that they pick produce a wonderful, pale golden tea.

Price : £ 12.99

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The Ultimate in Wireless Music The Sonos Controller gives you instant wireless access to all your music and all your rooms. SonosNet ensures that every Controller works wirelessly all over the house so you dont have to run back and forth to your computer. Instead you can choose exactly what to play and where to play it from anywhere – sitting on the couch or cooking in the kitchen. With the Controller in hand you can find and play music from your personal music collection Internet radio and the most popular online music services. And using the Controller couldnt be easier. Just pick a room pick a song and hit play. Use search to find your favorites and quickly link and unlink zones to play the same song in every room or different songs in different rooms. Controllers arent tied to a specific ZonePlayer so you can use any Controller to control the music – and the volume – in any or all rooms. And theres practically no limit to how many Controllers you can have – one for every room floor or music lover in your house. When it comes to scrolling through your music library browsing titles viewing album art queuing up tracks choosing zones and more the large full-colour LCD screen and scroll wheel make it a real cinch. No other digital music system lets you do all that. Wireless multi-room control from the palm of your hand Control all your music and all your ZonePlayers from the palm of your hand. The Sonos Controller goes where your computers and IR remotes cant. One Sonos Controller can control any Sonos product in your system so you can move around the house and stay in complete control over your multi-room music experience. Instant access to endless music With …

Price : £ 199.00

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Robots are taking over the planet, but as the guide helpfully advises, don’t panic! This isn’t one of those pesky evil robots, intent on enslaving humanity , but the new Spykee Vox, the latest robot kit from Meccano that responds to the sound of your voice! Reacting to a huge range of voice commands, it can even be programmed to perform a series of movements and sounds using a very simple programme editor included with the robot. All it takes is a bit of practice and you’ll soon have your Spykee Vox zipping round the carpet shooting its lasergun. You can even edit his facial animations to react to different commands you give him. It?s all very exciting. The robot arrives disassembled, but there’s no need to brush up on your robotics – it’s just like any other Meccano kit and the instructions will hold your hand through every step of the process (we let our office luddite loose on the kit and he managed to finish making the robot within 3 hours – though he did try and destroy it afterwards). Once you’ve got the hang of your Spykee you can use it to control your mp3 player or iPod, and if you’re feeling particularly lazy the robot will even take over as the remote control for your telly, giving you complete voice control over the idiot box. So, if you fancy yourself as a bit of a robotics amateur, get hold of the Spykee Vox and let a little bit of the future into your living room.

Price : £ 99.99

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If gently prising the cap off your Bud with a conventional opener seems a bit tame, why not go for a quicker and altogether more entertaining, and deeply satisfying approach to bottle opening? The stainless steel ZapCap is a chic step up from the plastic version and an ingenious British invention that removes any crown cap via smartly-applied downward pressure. Hidden inside is a spring-loaded mechanism. Place the whole contraption over the bottle top and zap it down with the flat of the hand to lift off the cap in one action. It even magnetically retains the top for disposal later – though if you give it a rather over-zealous thwack the top can adopt a mind of its own.

Price : £ 9.99

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