Belling Media Chef – the interactive Digital Cookbook

Not every woman is born gifted in the kitchen department. Traditional recipe books take up far too much room, are impractical in the kitchen and lets face it, when you see a recipe written on a page it doesn't make you salivate with hunger. So what does an attention challenged kitchenley inept woman like me…

The Teasmade for 2009: out now

Classic gadget the Teasmade - an icon of the sixties and seventies - has been redesigned, and is now in stock at John Lewis. Cunningly combining an alarm clock and a kettle, the idea is simple: Teasmade times the kettle to have a cup of tea ready for you by the time the alarm goes…

The WiFi Body Scales – that tell your phone how much you weigh

If getting your weight on the dial of the bathroom scales wasn't bad enough - how about getting it showing up on your iPhone as well? Yes - now you can. It's all thanks to a wifi-connected weighing machine that sends information about your weight and body mass index to your iPhone and your personal…

ViewSonic releases VPD500 a palm-sized movie-book – but do we want it?

Are moviebooks the new ebooks? Do we actually want them? ViewSonic have just released two new palm-sized media players: the VPD500 and VPD400 with 5inch and 4.3inch screens respectively. These little devices, ViewSonic tells us, bring movies to our hands and the glories of audiovisual world to our commute. Episode six of Summer Heights High…

5 best milk frothers

Frothy milk is pretty much haute cuisine as far as homemade coffee goes. Top coffee-nerds will have coffee machines with steam nozzles which fire steam through milk both heating and frothing at the same time - the ideal situation. But to the amateur with just a cafetiere and yearning for latte, a simple milk-frother does…

Come Dine with me the easy way

After we told you about the Cuisinart Soup Maker from John Lewis, we promised we would be bringing you the top five of these. However, why should we just stick to these when there are so many kitchen gadgets out there to help make your cooking life easier? Therefore, we've decided to give you a…

Gadget that will make you look like Nigella in the kitchen

With the winter season fast approaching, it's time to think about replacing your tankini's for tights and smoothies for soup, and it seems John Lewis is giving us a helping hand with the latter. The highstreet store has added the Cuisinart Soup Maker to its range of kitchen gadgets, which lets you make fresh hot…

As Facebook hits 250m users, 5 ways it will change

Facebook now has 250million active users - making it bigger than the world's fourth most populous country. Which is Indonesia by the way. And as one recent article claims, users don't just 'use' it, they live on it. Look here's a heat map from Facebook showing it spreading like virtually simulated wildfire over the globe:…

5 kitchen implements to desire

I know kitchen implements are there to be useful... they open tins, contain hot things and facilitate the making of millefeuille pastry. But sometimes they're so much more than that. Sometimes, they become things you want really badly with a desire that eclipses any potential usefulness they could possibly have. These are five kitchen implements…