Bodum Bistro hand mixer

Help mum whip  up meringues and mousses in style with this five-speed mixer. The plastic chassis is durable, wipe-clean and available in numerous colors.

Price: £44 | Bodum

Denon Ceol

Denon’s network music system is a fully realised, next-gen super-system now with AirPlay as standard. The main unit integrates an amp, CD, web radio/streamer, iPod dock and FM tuner. Your iOS device pops into a concealed roof-top dock, but with Wi-Fi, DLNA, AirPlay and Flac support all built in, the Ceol also does a great job as a music streamer. Audio quality is light and creamy, propelled by a punchy, 65W amp. It’s pretty much perfect for its price.

Price: £499 Link: denon.co.uk

Apple MacBook Air 2013

An incremental upgrade really, but the latest MacBook Air remains a pinnacle of laptop design. It’s not just a pretty face though - Intel’s Haswell processor comes as standard and you can have it specced out to run a 1.7GHz i7 processor along with 4GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Price: From £849 | Apple

Alcatel One Touch Idol X+

Boasting a whopping eight cores of power, a 2 GHz chip and 2GB RAM, this one seriously beefed up smartphone. There's a 5-inch, full HD display to gaze upon, while the rear camera packs 13.1-megapixels and it's all crammed in a 7.9mm shell. It's not all good though as 4G LTE is lacking and out of the box it'll only come running Android version 4.2 (we're on 4.4 now) layered with Alcatel's skin.

Price: $250 (UK price TBA) | Alcatel One Touch

ZTE Grand S II

Coming with a 5.5-inch 1080p screen, a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800, 13-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel sensor up front, the ZTE Grand S II looks to be your typical high-end smartphone. However, it's the clever use of voice-recognition that really sets it apart from the crowd. Working a bit like the features on the Moto X, the phone will instantly recognise you when you speak, unlike the Moto though, it will be able to recognise more than one voice. You'll also be able to snap photos with a voice command - clever.

Price: TBA | ZTE

Sony Xperia Z1 Compact

Finally, there's a top tier Android device that doesn't cut a load of corners in order to take it from a 5-inch phone to a 4.3-inch version. This is basically last year's Z1, but in a shrunken down frame and with a 720p display. Under the hood you'll find,a Snapdragon 800 along processor, along with Android 4.3 and that fantastic 20-meg snapper. It's also waterproof, if you fancy taking your phone into the shower.
Price: TBA | Sony | Hands-on

Curve Creative Bugle Stand

Looking to get a bit of extra oomph out of your iPhone speaker? Whack a great big plastic ear trumpet on it, that should do the trick, as long as you don't mind your phone looking ridiculous. Price: £16 | Link: shapeways.com