Sony unveiled the curvaceous form of the new PlayStation 3 today. It won't actually be here till 2006, but we all get to admire the features lists, which consists of such delights as video chat, internet access, digital audio and video, and HDTV (high definition television) support. It uses Blu-ray discs - which can hold as much as 6x current DVDs. It also has about a million other features that I can't quite face typing out because I'm supposed to be off work today and there's someone putting loud shelves up in my room. I'd suggest checking a site that's a bit more thorough in its dedication to gaming if you want to get the full run down.

I suggest here is a good place to start.

Looks like Gwen Stefani's modded HP Photosmart R607 Harajuku Lovers Digital Camera I posted up a while ago is available to purchase. The camera, inspired by those crazy kids from Harajuku, has 4.1-megapixels and comes with extra features like a special case designed by Gwen, jangly dangly bits such as charms and straps, and a DVD of Gwen doing her day job.

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And me being me, I've selected the tackiest item on display in the June issue of CE Lifestyles to post on here. These faux-leather Hip Tunes belts have been designed especially for your iPod or iPod mini, providing a big buckled holster for your player, as well as a back pocket to stuff your earbuds, keys, money or any other detritus into (mine would be full of half used tissues). They're available in a variety of colours and will set you back $29.95.

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The beautifully-named Katie, editor of CE Lifestyles, emailed me the other day to quite rightly point out that they've been going for ages and so Shutchka isn't the first gadget/tech magazine for women at all. Silly me. Since I've actually seen a copy of CE Lifestyles and don't have to try and make out a whole new alphabet like Shutchka (I speak American very nearly fluently), I can tell you that this mag is full of articles on how to set up wireless audio systems round your house, what to look out for when buying a digital camcorder, and what's new in the land of lady gadgets.

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Spend your weekend with Shiny...take a look at what's happening at some of our other top blogs.

The Bag Lady (bags & stuff) : Donuts at Topshop, Calvin Klein enamel clutch, Lola Rose candles.

Shoewawa: (shoe blog) : Funky flip-flops, New Hollywoulds, Nautical but nice.

Bayraider: (eBay & auctions) : Monkey hacker, Celebrity pants, Buy your own High School.

Tech Digest: Creative announces new audio technology, Microsoft to release PC security suite, Robots learn to reproduce.

Ashley over at Tech Digest has managed to get his mitts on the Samsung YH-820 5GB hard drive player for a review. And he's decreed the following: it's got a neat colour screen, stylish light design and decent overall playback of MP3 and WMA files. But the battery life is "rather pathetic". I had a quick go with it yesterday, but I couldn't tell you much about it - we were on a noisy road which isn't the best testing ground. What I can say is that it's a lot smaller than this picture makes it look.

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Regular readers will know just how much I love my Roomba (even if it did embarrass me live on air the other day). So when I saw that iRobot have made a special pink version with 20% of the price going to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, I felt all warm and fuzzy inside. Got to be better than those rubber charity wristbands people are collecting like ethical fashion statements at the moment.

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I realised the other day that my current phone has a little loop on it, yet I've still not got a useless piece of tat to dangle off it. What on earth is wrong with me? I instantly found myself on a mission to find a girly phone charm that all my mates would laugh at. Coach's 'multilove' cellphone lanyard seemed like a good option. $58 wasted on a naff bit of silver and enamel. I was almost sold, until I came across an old Hello Kitty keyring and decided to get creative with my jewellery pliers instead (yes, I have jewellery pliers). Sorry Coach, maybe next time, I'm saving up my money to start a farmyard of cubees. (Gemma Cartwright)

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You know those people who carry photos of their loved ones in their wallets (just to prove they have loved ones)? Well now they can be even more sentimental. The Smoy Photocuff is a wrist cuff (aka a unisex bracelet) with 'windows' for photos, so you can show off your favourite images to the world. I'd put a picture of a pair of Jimmy Choo's in mine. Then when I flash my wrist at a rich man, he won't even need to ask what to buy me... (Gemma Cartwright)

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Ah, good to see that the age old tradition of selling things by draping smug undie-wearing ladies across the product is alive and well. That way you make half your potential customer base feel peeved and the other half patronised, so it's win-win really! She's not even wearing a bra I can covet to take my mind off the marketing tactics. But since she's at least got both her marketing tactics covered up I'm going to cut this rant short.

The 23- and 17-inch widescreen televisions are available in pearlescent or silver, have Active 3D Surround Sound, two SCART sockets and two 5-Watt (RMS) speakers. They've been designed by industrial product designer, Gwenael Nicolas, the man behind many product design and packaging projects for the likes of Tag Heuer, Issey Miyake and Nintendo. In keeping with our UK theme today, these LCD TVs are being put together in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Or Sufflok if you prefer the press release's spelling.

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There seems to be a theme running through today's post titles. Here's another product that's pitched up in the UK. The 6GB version of the H10 will be here at the end of May for around about £200. Its main feature (aside from the extra Gigabyte of storage) is really the colour screen that displays 262k colours, making it just dandy for viewing your digital pics inspite of its iPod mini-esque proportions.There's also a built-in FM tuner for the day that your own music bores you, and it's compatible with Media Player 10, which I'm personally rather partial to. Other than red, you can go for "midnight blue", "neo silver" and "slate grey". Because really there's not enough slate grey things in the world.

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Hurray! I get to write "front face flaps" again! The Cubees that brought so much joy to my clammy face yesterday get another mention today simply because, like the Noreve, they too are available to UK consumers. For once we don't have to peer resentfully over the pond at our US counterparts, or shake a vengeful fist towards the rising sun: we get to play with the naff plastic gadgetry as well!

Obviously my attention span was a little lacking yesterday and I failed to mention that the Cubees flip open to reveal a smaller identikit Cubee inside, and the smaller one flips open to reveal an even smaller one, and that even smaller one... you get the idea, right? But who cares about that! Tell me more about the quacking front face flaps. They're £13 for a three pack.

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The people from Please Can I Have One emailed me to say that UK iPod fanciers can also enjoy the benefits of the vastly over-priced Noreve iPod Love cases I featured yesterday. They'll set you back a wacking great £979. My gob is well and truly smacked at that figure. If you too find the concept of paying that much for a case hard to compute, you'll be relieved to hear that Noreve also has a selection of sensibly priced cases that start at just £20, such as these iPod shuffle cases. There are also cases for the full iPod range, the iAudio M3 and X5, the Creative Zen Micro and the iRiver 300 series. Plans for a case for the Sony PSP are also afoot.

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What's happening over at the other shiny blogs?

Tech Digest: TV channels on your mobile, Google mini-search tool lands in UK, Sony NW-HD5 iPod rival on sale in UK.

Bayraider (ebay & auctions): Viva Las Vegas, Retro spacehopper, Festival tickets round-up.

Shoewawa (shoe blog): Gina 'Zeta' copies, Where to buy Havaianas, Soap Awards coverage.

The Bag Lady (bags & stuff): The silver Chloe Paddington (again), Gap belts on sale, Pre-fall Miu Miu line-up.

Maybe I'm just having a bad day because I'm poorly (did I mention that already?) but I seem to be suffering from pink overload today. I feel like I've had all I can take of pink stuff. Bring on the red or green stuff. That's what I'm after now. Anyway, I should probably tell you about this pink version of the latest Vertu Ascent, but if you can afford to buy one of the world's most expensive phones I'm afraid I'm obliged to despise you. 1) for being rich enough to afford one (no pricing given for this one, but expect it to be about double the Third World Debt). And 2) for buying a phone that costs the earth but has fewer features than Nicole Kidman's face.

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Want to pay six times more for your iPod case than you did for your iPod? Noreve's iPod Love case is a limited edition leather case (just 20 are being made) with a velvet interior, a white gold heart encrusted with 44 WSI quality diamonds and a 25 day wait (while they put one together specially for you). Each one is signed and numbered by S. Schaming of Saint-Tropez Schaming Jewellery (who? should I know this?). They're also available in black, white, grey, beige, baby blue, ocean blue, or red. There's a word to describe cases like these. It starts in V and ends in ulgar.

Did I mention I was poorly today? Well, this customised Samsung E800 is making my headache and nausea worse. What was the matter with the old E800s? Not female friendly enough? Yes, before you ask, I am in a grump. (But then I read the bit about face flaps again and I perk right up)

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Today I'm mostly feeling poorly so my first reaction on reading about these plastic cartoon animal boxes was to get irritated with the amount of tat that keeps spilling forth from Japan to fill up our houses until we send it off to some landfill tip. But then I read: "Just press the button on the top of the Cubee and it will open and close it's front face flap and quack (or moo or oink, chirp, meow or bark) a song" and suddenly all was right with the world again. "Front face flap". I don't think I've read anything so entertaining in ages. Maybe I'm a little delirious. And that's not all these plastic dust collectors do either - interconnect additional Cubees into a singing pyramid and the top one will "belt out the lead while the others "sing" back-up." I'm sure the novelty of these creatures would wear off about 20 seconds after you stuck the battery in, but the mental image my fevered mind is conjuring up of a great plastic pyramind of front face flaps quacking, mooing and oinking is going to see my through this dark time.

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There's no colour screen on the latest Archos Gmini players so there'll be no photo viewing or video watching or any of that usual Archos business going on. But you will be able to listen to MP3, WMA (DRM) and WAV audio stored on the 3GB hard drive. 3GB's a bit of an unusual capacity, but it'll be cheaper than the ($199) 4GB iPod when it launches in June at $179.95. Available in grey, black, blue and pink.

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I've got a bit of a thing for laptops: partly because I used to work on a laptop mag; partly because they mean I can do all my work in bed wearing brushed cotton jimjams and eating hobnobs (Carrie Bradshaw I ain't). Aside from the pesky problems of RSI and a knackered old laptop that gets so hot it burns the hairs off my legs (well, I did say I wasn't Carrie Bradshaw), my home set up just works a treat. Then again, if I had this Samsung Q30 laptop I might just make the effort to get out of bed, put on some fab (Faith copy) Manolo pumps and a big frock, and do a spot of pensive lip biting whilst writing copy that has "I got to thinking" littered generously throughout. And then, with my super-lightweight 1.1kg red notebook in tow, I'd skive off for the afternoon to totter gaily through the streets and rummage through the bargain bins of my local charity shops in the hope of finding something kooky for 5p.

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