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Need a fresh look at things before next week? This Samsung T220 monitor might help: £130 pounds from Amazon, a saving of £45 on the next best price.

Great laptop bargain for the weekend, just £1,092 for a Sony Vaio TT21M/N from Currys (with a discount voucher that expires at midnight, normally £1,150), over £250 cheaper than the next best price.

Great digital camera deal this, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S950 for only £75 from Dixons, £33 cheaper than the next best price; a whopping 30% saving. Happy snapping!

Deal on this Hoover VHV380 tumble dryer; in stock and only £200 and £20 delivery at Appliances Direct - that’s £100 off!

Time to get some Reevoo Drinks at the ready with this bargain Hotpoint WE26X chiller, down to £691 at Appliance World, that’s a massive £197 cheaper than the next best price!  Bottoms up

Ciao ragazze!  Time to perk up with some fresh espresso - this quality Delonghi EC270 down to £74 with voucher at Laskys.  That’s £16 off RRP!

Super deal of the week!  This awesome Sharp LC42DH77E LCD TV, with an astounding 50% off promotion code, smashing the price down to £600, and with FREE delivery and high reviewer ratings from purchasers.

With more and more people ditching bulky CD collections in favour of the music on their computers or MP3 players, the popularity of the traditional Hi Fi is being overtaken by new music gadgets.

If you’ve got money to spare, a killer multi-room music system can be acheived with media streamers by the likes of Sonos and Philips.  A more practical solution (and simpler to set up) solution is iPod speakers: just plug your MP3 player in or slot it in the dock, and press play.  Another advantage of these devices is their flexibility: friends or family just need to plug in their MP3 players and suddenly you can listen to a whole new range of music.

Everyone’s heard of Bose’s SoundDock and, with regular updates, there’s a lot to like in their range (the Portable, starting at £322, the Original now down to £128, the Mark II from £219 and the top of the line SoundDock 10, at a hefty £699).  Here are a range of other MP3 speakers from lesser-known companies that are worth considering.

Student Sound System

If you just want something small enough to fit in a student room and cheaper than a round of drinks, take a look at the Logic 3 iStation Traveller, from £10.  This battery powered speaker is light on features, but has surprisingly good sound quality for its size, according to reviews.  An average rating of 8.6/10 indicates owners were pretty happy with this pocket-szied device.

If your loan can stretch a little further, consider the Gear4 HouseParty, with nearly 4 times the wattage and a rating of 8.9/10 overall, which costs from £50 upwards.

Style-conscious

Most ipod docks follow a well-worn design track, mainly variations on a theme set by Bose’s classic devices.  Of the few to diverge from this pattern, the Gear4 Blackbox does so with most aplomb.

The Blackbox is a sleek, piano-black cube, with a red LED clock face showing through the surface and a dock on the top.  Very well-rated for design, it falls down a little on sound quality and ease of use, but still makes a drop dead gorgeous kitchen or bedroom clock/dock.

Audiophile

There’s a bit of a caveat with this category, as any audiophile worth his/her salt will tell you that trying to get great quality music from compressed audio files (like MP3s) is about as likely as.

Having said this, if you just want to get the best sound you can from your MP3 Player, you should look at the Logic 3 Valve80.  This classy-looking amplifier/speaker set recharges you iPod while it plays, and comes with a remote that allows you to navigate through your iPod music library.  The sound quality garners high praise from owners, scoring 9.0/10.  Drawbacks include being on the large size and quite pricey, starting from £277.

If you’re serious about sound quality and happy spending a little more in pursuit of it, you could do little better than combining a Fatman iTube with a pair of high quality Hi Fi speakers.

The mornings are getting darker, colder and harder to wake up to so we think it’s time to bring in the cavalry – coffee. If you normally grab a cuppa on your way into work every morning, think how much money you could save by making your own tasty brew at home and investing in a good flask. Plus you get to keep warm as soon as you’ve left the house.

If we’ve convinced you, read on to see our top five coffee machine picks.

We’ve gone for a mixture of filter coffee machines, cafetières and fancy espresso makers that will make all the coffees and hot drinks you’d find in a coffee shop. If you like a wide choice of drinks and you’re too busy to worry about filter paper and plungers in the morning, you might prefer the latter.

If you’re serious about coffee, you’ll know that the best taste comes from grinding your own coffee. The Cuisinart DGB900BCU Grind and Brew machine (2-12 cups) will grind and brew your coffee but not only that, it does both on a timer! Wake up in the morning to the sound of grinding coffee beans and a few minutes later, you’ll have cuppa that you don’t have to put any effort into.

The Bosch TAS4011GB takes “pods” - capsules of different flavoured and styles of coffee - so you can have a different drink for every day of the week. It scores 9.1/10 and is very highly rated for ease of use.

The cafetière of the bunch is this Bodum French Press coffee maker (up to 8 cups). A machine for the style conscious, this is also dishwasher proof so you needn’t worry about mess and cleaning.  It’s also only £15 so you can save even more money on your morning fix.

Simple but oh so stylish, my personal favourite, the Francis Francis X1. It makes espressos, and cappuccinos plus you can either use ground coffee or the E.S.E pods for extra speed in the mornings.

And for those of you who like a bit of variety, the DeLonghi Combi BC0261 Combi Espresso and Filter Coffee Maker (up to 10 cups) does just that – espresso and filter coffee so you can have a  coffee shop selection in your kitchen. It’s £70 and has a milk frother for cappuccinos.

Here at Reevoo we’re all getting naked in about 10 minutes for the #Nudetech calendar!  You can see reviews on what we’re taking off here.