5 of the best voice-controlled gadgets

Samsung ES8000

£2,500
www.samsung.com/uk
Finally, a smart TV that feels like it’s genuinely smart. The ES8000 is the first goggle box to offer voice recognition, giving true couch potatoes the effortless control over volume, channel hopping and much, much more. Samsung has engineered it to understand regional accents, and you can even control connected device – a Sky box, for example – using the included IR blaster. It’s an excellent feature on a TV that already delivers in so many ways.