In the legendary series of educational films from the 1970s, designers Charles and Ray Eames zoom out from a man resting in a park in downtown Chicago, transporting us in minutes to intergalactic space. At the point at which we reach the bounds of human knowledge, they stop... and zoom back in. Only this time, their camera doesn't stop... surveying deeper and deeper inside his skin, ultimately to the level of sub-atomic particles.

Now, we're not suggesting for a second that this Spyscope will take you anywhere near sub-atomic resolution from the comfort of your own PC, but it will give you a darned good look at your skin - or anything else you wish to spy on.

With the spyscope one can keep a close eye, whether you're looking out for the milkman or reading the small print on a bill. It's a 8x magnifying telescope that doubles up as a 30x magnifying microscope.

Enabling one to spy on one's neighbours as well as awe-inspiring close-ups of more innocent material, could there be a better way of passing a chill winter's evening than blowing up one's own hair follicle to the size of the Titanic? We thought not.