Ingenious chopping board

I'm a big fan of kitchen innovation - anything that can make cooking life easier is fine by me. What we often end up with though is gadgetry, which is all very well and good when it works, but sometimes kitchen gadgets serve only to complicate things without actually saving you much time. Enter the simple, designed-with-a-human-in-mind, Chop 2 Pot board from JosephJoseph, designed by Mark Sanders. Made from polypropylene, the board lies flat while chopping, but is hinged so when the handle is squeezed, the board forms a chute to guide the food into the pot. Ingenious! I know I'm forever having to retrive bits of chopped carrot, mushroom and the like from around the stove (or worse, the floor) when they haven't quite made it from board to cooking pot. The Chop 2 Pot comes in a range of bright colours, plus white, and costs £9.99 from homewarestore.com.