The weather in this country has a serious attitude problem. It’s like a surly teenager mood and temperament swinging wildly. Summers are plagued by rain and wind and then we have to endure the whole icy winter wishing hoping dreaming that the view outside our window will be filled with the deep crispy whiteness of snow. Everyone knows it should be sunny in the summer and snowy in the winter but the weather just won’t co-operate. Take matters into your own hands and use new Instant Snow in a Can – it looks and feels like real snow! A perfect addition to your stack of Christmas gifts novelty gifts don’t get better than this. You can even make the Instant Snow in a Can part of your Christmas decorations. Just pop open this magical can and add water to the sachet of white powder found inside you’ll soon have your living room looking like a winter wonderland. You needn’t worry about the mess a couple of days is all it takes for the snow to dehydrate and then you can vacuum it up or spray some more water on it to get that Christmassy feeling all over again. Features: A sachet of snow sealed in a Christmassy can. Just add water and you’ll soon have more snow than you’ll know what to do with. It dehydrates after a couple of days making it very easy to vacuum up. Spray or add more water on to keep the snow going for longer. 20g of powder makes 1.5 litres of snow. Keep the powder out of the reach of children. Avoid inhalation or contact with the eyes. Suitable for ages 14 years+. Size of tin: 9 x 6.5cm.

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The camera on your iPhone is great (just like everything else on it eh acolytes?) but when it comes to zoom it could do with a little helping hand. Luckily the iPhone Lens and Tripod set in white is here to sort out any zooming inadequacies you might have. It is as you might well imagine an attachment for your iPhone that allows you to zoom in with 8x magnification. Wow! Not only that but you can make any ‘real’ photographers weep over the money they spent on their flashy tripods and accessories – this baby’s loaded with gubbins to enhance your photos. A dinky tripod to get it steady a clamp to stick the lens onto your phone in the first place and a nice cover to finish the whole package off and make your iPhone look even more camera-like than before. The lens itself has a field view of a whopping 246 meters and is fully adjustable meaning that no matter what you’re attempting to snap it’ll be brought into focus and eminent clarity. So if that exotic bird in the distance (obviously we mean the avian kind who do you think we are?) is proving a little too far away for your iPhone’s camera to get a handle on simply pop it on the tripod whack on the lens and watch it come to life on your screen. An essential gadget for photography nuts and iPhone lovers alike. Features: An impressive lens for your iPhone. Allows you to zoom in on distant objects that the iPhone camera can’t on its own. Fully adjustable long focal lens with 8x magnification. Field view of 246m. Minimum focus distance 3m. Includes tripod for steady shooting. Totally portable kit. Also includes clamp sleeve for the iPhone cleaning cloth and protective case. Also available in Black: Click Here. Suitable for ages 8+ Please note: Compatible with 3G and 3GS iPhones. Not compatible with iPhone 4 or 4S. Size: Lens: 7 x 3 x 3cm Tripod (folded): 13 x 2.5 x 2.5cm Sleeve: 12 x 6.5 x 1.5cm

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The Big Bang Rocket only needs a tiny square of newspaper to make an almighty ‘bang’! And how does it do that? Science of course! Wait come back… it’s fun science! All you have to do is tear a 3 inch square piece of newspaper pop it over the top of the rocket fasten it in place and throw it as far as you can. When it lands on the nose the paper will pop producing a surprisingly loud and powerful bang. It’s a great fun toy for any outdoor surface so that includes the park the garden or even the beach. What’s more all you need to make it work over and over again is that little square of newspaper. If anything it’ll make recycling an awful lot more fun than taking the bins out of a Wednesday night. So next time you’re heading out for a day in the park or on the beach then don’t forget to take the Big Bang Rocket with you. Guaranteed to upset the local wildlife and cause unnecessary furore amongst nearby gangsters the Big Bang Rocket is an endless well of explosive entertainment.

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The Big Bang Rocket only needs a tiny square of newspaper to make an almighty ‘bang’! And how does it do that? Science of course! Wait come back… it’s fun science! All you have to do is tear a 3 inch square piece of newspaper pop it over the top of the rocket fasten it in place and throw it as far as you can. When it lands on the nose the paper will pop producing a surprisingly loud and powerful bang. It’s a great fun toy for any outdoor surface so that includes the park the garden or even the beach. What’s more all you need to make it work over and over again is that little square of newspaper. If anything it’ll make recycling an awful lot more fun than taking the bins out of a Wednesday night. So next time you’re heading out for a day in the park or on the beach then don’t forget to take the Big Bang Rocket with you. Guaranteed to upset the local wildlife and cause unnecessary furore amongst nearby gangsters the Big Bang Rocket is an endless well of explosive entertainment.

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The Big Bang Rocket only needs a tiny square of newspaper to make an almighty ‘bang’! And how does it do that? Science of course! Wait come back… it’s fun science! All you have to do is tear a 3 inch square piece of newspaper pop it over the top of the rocket fasten it in place and throw it as far as you can. When it lands on the nose the paper will pop producing a surprisingly loud and powerful bang. It’s a great fun toy for any outdoor surface so that includes the park the garden or even the beach. What’s more all you need to make it work over and over again is that little square of newspaper. If anything it’ll make recycling an awful lot more fun than taking the bins out of a Wednesday night. So next time you’re heading out for a day in the park or on the beach then don’t forget to take the Big Bang Rocket with you. Guaranteed to upset the local wildlife and cause unnecessary furore amongst nearby gangsters the Big Bang Rocket is an endless well of explosive entertainment.

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So you’ve flown our other RC helicopters stormed the odd makeshift cardboard box base and have managed to get the theme tune from ‘Airwolf’ out of your head – what’s next? Voice Control that’s what! This ingenious Voice Control Helicopter responds to your commands and has five of them loaded in ready to obey your every aviation whim (though when we tried it out it didn’t seem to understand pop into the kitchen and grab me a Hobnob.). Simply pop the microphone set over your bonce (it looks a bit like a bluetooth headset) and get jabbering! You can command your heli-servant to: ‘start its engines’ ‘go higher and lower’ ‘to hold’ and ‘to stop’ once you’ve landed. Saying ‘stop’ in mid-air is not recommended unless you’ve got a very soft head and few pain receptors. Combined with that you can use the remote control to turn left and right and the in-built forward motion will make sure it’s headed in the right direction. From a self-preservation point of view there’s also a ceiling sensor that ensures you don’t have to avoid a falling helicopter as well. To top it all off there’s some cool LED lights and charging it up is super-easy via the handset. For any European friends you might have the helicopter will also understand commands in French or Spanish – clever eh? In short the Voice Control Helicopter is one of the most innovative helicopters at IWOOT addictive and extremely clever.

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So you’ve flown our other RC helicopters stormed the odd makeshift cardboard box base and have managed to get the theme tune from ‘Airwolf’ out of your head – what’s next? Voice Control that’s what! This ingenious Voice Control Helicopter responds to your commands and has five of them loaded in ready to obey your every aviation whim (though when we tried it out it didn’t seem to understand pop into the kitchen and grab me a Hobnob.). Simply pop the microphone set over your bonce (it looks a bit like a bluetooth headset) and get jabbering! You can command your heli-servant to: ‘start its engines’ ‘go higher and lower’ ‘to hold’ and ‘to stop’ once you’ve landed. Saying ‘stop’ in mid-air is not recommended unless you’ve got a very soft head and few pain receptors. Combined with that you can use the remote control to turn left and right and the in-built forward motion will make sure it’s headed in the right direction. From a self-preservation point of view there’s also a ceiling sensor that ensures you don’t have to avoid a falling helicopter as well. To top it all off there’s some cool LED lights and charging it up is super-easy via the handset. For any European friends you might have the helicopter will also understand commands in French or Spanish – clever eh? In short the Voice Control Helicopter is one of the most innovative helicopters at IWOOT addictive and extremely clever.

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In “Post Everything”, Luke Haines demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. The ‘avant-garde Arthur Scargill’ calls upon the nation’s pop stars to down tools and go on strike. We learn the story of Haines’ post-Britpop art house trio Black Box Recorder (Chas and Dave with a chanteuse), we meet a talking cat, two dead rappers (Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur), a mystical England football manager, and a shady transgender German Professor – exponent of a dangerous and radical ‘Beatles denial’ cult and author of “The Theorem of the Moron” (the most important book about rock that you’ve never heard of). Haines even finds time to write a musical for the National Theatre. Blisteringly funny and searingly scathing, “Post Everything” may quite possibly be the first and only truly surreal comic rock memoir. It even contains a killer recipe for scrambled eggs.

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Over the past fifteen years, Steampunk – a mash-up of Victorian and sci-fi aesthetics with a splash of punk rock attitude – has gone from being a literary movement to a part of pop culture and a way of life. This subculture celebrates the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and steam-powered robots. The Steampunk aesthetic now permeates movies, comics, fashion, art and more, and has given a distinct flavor to iconic events such as Maker Faire and the Burning Man festival. The Steampunk Bible is the first book of its kind, a fully illustrated compendium tracing the roots and history of this subculture, from the work of its godfathers Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to the key figures who coined the word that would spawn a literary genre, to the vast community of craftsmen and artists who translated that spark into a lifestyle with clothing and accessories such as goggles, corsets, pocket watches, and with an attitude to match.This ultimate resource, filled with scores of illustrations and photographs, will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk past, present and future.

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From a fantasy fiction genre, steampunk has grown into a broad pop culture aesthetic with its own art, fashion, home decor, music and events. This title chronicles this burgeoning international subculture with an illustrated newspaper-style design th

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