Kitchens go space-age

Can you keep up with the latest trends?

While your living room might be kitted out with the latest high-tech gadgets, your kitchen is set to be next. Store your whisk away and get ready for kitchens to go space age.

We already have online grocery shopping, fridges that automatically drop or increase their temperature according to the food we store in certain places, not to mention shelves filled with microwaves, espresso machines, bread-makers and the like.

Now, the Nintendo Cooking Guide is set to change the way we cook forever - with recipes and step-by-step cooking instructions at the touch of a button, or the sound of your voice.

Released last week in the UK, the palm-sized gadget is basically a 'digital cookbook' that can be fitted to your fridge with a magnet. It allows users to search recipes according to their main ingredients, cooking time, nationality or nutritional information. There are 250 recipes in the database.

Users can alter the recipes by specifying the number of people you're feeding, or search for recipes based on ingredients users already have in their kitchens. The handy gadget also features short 'how-to' videos, teaching users how to perform basic kitchen tasks like chopping vegetables or filleting fish.