It may seem like an odd departure for us to be selling a knife sharpener but this one is so gob-smackingly amazing that we couldn’t not show it to you. If you’ve ever had to tackle a turkey or a tomato there’s nothing more infuriating than hacking away at it with a blunt old knife – or a blunt new one come to that. Now there are a gazillion (though we haven’t actually counted) knife sharpeners out there from the stone age steel to contraptions requiring batteries and a degree in quantum mechanics. But none of them NONE OF THEM come close to the Ozitech Knife Sharpener. Just a few strokes through the bendy diamond encrusted leaves and your kitchen weapon of choice will be able to slice a tomato so thin (and so effortlessly) that it could float away in a light breeze sort of. You could pass a camel through the eye of a needle after you’ve used one of these (admittedly in very small pieces). Another great thing about this is that it packs up so small it’ll fit in the fullest of cutlery drawers or your pocket if you’re a chef on the go. Finally an end to shredded chicken and a mush of onion carving and halving and slicing and dicing is now officially a pleasure thanks to the Ozitech transforming our old kitchen hatchets into veritable Samurai swords – it will change your culinary life.

Price : £ 21.99

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Can you imagine what today’s technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That’s the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It’s more than just a whimsical idea. In the past few years, the Steampunk genre has captivated makers, hackers, artists, designers, writers, and others throughout the world. In this fascinating book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott offer insights into what Steampunk’s alternative history says about our own world and its technological future. Interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood explore how this vision of stylish craftsmen making fantastic and beautiful hand-tooled gadgets has become a cultural movement – and perhaps an important countercultural moment. Steampunk is everywhere – as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a future that never existed can help us look forward.

Price : £ 15.5

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Can you imagine what today’s technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That’s the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It’s more than just a whimsical idea. In the past few years, the Steampunk genre has captivated makers, hackers, artists, designers, writers, and others throughout the world. In this fascinating book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott offer insights into what Steampunk’s alternative history says about our own world and its technological future. Interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood explore how this vision of stylish craftsmen making fantastic and beautiful hand-tooled gadgets has become a cultural movement – and perhaps an important countercultural moment. Steampunk is everywhere – as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a future that never existed can help us look forward.

Price : £ 15.5

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This is the ultimate how-to guide for putting your detailed, precise, and imaginative steampunk visions on paper. “Drawing Steampunk” gives you hundreds of step-by-step, do-it-yourself drawings of everything from tiny clothing elements to complex mechanical devices. It is designed specifically to help imaginative individuals draw the steampunk future. With tips, tricks, and techniques from this book, you can take the fictional steampunk vision beyond your favorite novels and illustrate your own fashions, contraptions, and intricate machines. Taking the bewilderment out of the drawing process, “Drawing Steampunk” shows how complexity begins with a few simple lines. For beginners, there’s a special primer section, while more experienced artists can dive right in to drawing the moving gears, brass knobs, and steam boilers that make 19th-century style so cool.

Price : £ 10.99

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