LEGO Boost Creative Toolbox

Kuri Smart Robot heykuri.com $699

A home robot, Kuri will move around your house with ease, avoiding obstacles and learning your floor plan along the way. It’ll also learn about your habits and routines, so that it can, for example, wake you at the right time each morning. It’ll connect with your home devices, play your favorite songs, and respond to your spoken commands – it can even respond to touch. The robot’s blinking, emotive eyes are equipped with a camera so that as well as offering facial recognition, it can monitor your home and take HD photos and video.

Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II canon.com $530

Canon’s PowerShot range has been revamped for 2017, and the G9 X Mark II now packs a 20.1-megapixel sensor, DIGIC 7 processor, 3x optical zoom, and 3-inch touchscreen LCD. There’s built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC technology, and intelligent image stabilization. And you get all this within a truly compact and super slim form – the camera weighs a mere 7 oz. The high-quality image sensor will help you to capture impressively detailed images for a camera of this size. We particularly love the classic look of the silver version.

LEGO Boost Creative Toolbox lego.com $TBC

LEGO: simple bricks, right? Well, the bricks are getting a little bit smart, with the help of the LEGO Boost Creative Toolbox. The Toolbox includes over 840 pieces; the accompanying app provides instructions to build and code five multifunctional models. There’s Vernie the talking robot, a multitooled Rover 4 transport unit with spring-loaded missile, the Guitar4000 musical instrument, Frankie the interactive cat, and the AutoBuilder – which promises an automated production line for LEGO models. An inspirational update to our favorite interlocking bricks.