Gizmo

You are having the perfect dinner party. All the guests are beautiful, charming, capable of making arcane puns in several languages. They are also serious alcoholics, and you, as a gracious host, have had to keep up with them. The time comes for you to open that 15th bottle of 1982 Chateau Le Pez. Before you can plunge the corkscrew into the top of the bottle, you must take a knife and remove the top of the foil. Your mind is not in perfect "designated driver" condition as you wield the blade. You fingers slip, the knife slices through your soft flesh, the blood spurts over the table and onto the expensive silk tie of a leading Senior Counsel. Socially, my friend, you are now toast.

But you could have been the toast of the town, and the entire, sorry debacle could so easily have been avoided, if only you had purchased the Bottle Fish Foil Cutter. The friendly, fish-shaped implement slots over any wine bottle; simply squeeze the cutter and turn the bottle. As well as being safe, you avoid that embarrassing, unsightly jagged-edge problem - the foil comes away in a perfect circle.

Ah yes, your dinner parties will become the stuff of legends - until you try to use the foil cutter on a bottle of beer...

The Bottle Fish Foil Cutter, £6, available at Brown Thomas and other leading stockists.