If something has got a hint of penicillin about it, don't eat it. If it smells funny, don't eat it. If you can't remember when you put it in the fridge, don't eat it. Or, if you can't keep track of these simple rules, buy the DaysAgo Digital Counters.

You attach them to anything in your fridge, via the suction cup, and press go. It'll then count the hours and minutes since the food was put in there, up to 99 days. And if you've got food in your fridge longer than 99 days, and it's not astronaut food, it needs chucking out anyway.

Get two for $8.99 here.

I melt at the word 'centrifugal', despite the fact that every time I mention it here on Shiny Shiny, someone tells me it doesn't' exist. Well, I say nay. Philips wouldn't lie to me, and they're quite sure they're using magical centrifugal force to suck out all the rubbish pulp and bits out of a smoothie, making it a much pleasanter prospect in my book.

It's got an extra large tube, so you can just shove whole bits of fruit in them (possibly excluding the likes of watermelons). Or you could try whole bars of Dairy Milk. Or a tennis ball. The possibilities are, almost literally, endless.

A marvelous start to the new year.

£127 at Comet here

Until someone lets me start a kitchen equipment blog, I am going to persist in afflicting my love of a good kitchen gadget on Shiny Shiny. Seriously, I love this shit. In fact, an ideal afternoon in my world is a good run of random adverts selling things you never knew you needed, all of which inexplicably come with a free Parker pen that can pierce through a coke can.

Aaaaaaanyway.

Look! It's a vegetable peeler that collects its own peelings! How clever is that?! It's got double sided blades for both lefties and righties, and is the bargain price of $7.95 Sadly, it doesn't seem to come with a free pen.

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This is a rather cute way to add some geekery to your home. Yes, it's a clock, and as such that's the only function, but c'mon. Poseable arms and legs two colours and the cutest smile. How could you resist?

$35.99 from Perpetual Kid

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Ahh vinyl - the forgotten format that once use to rule the dance floor and the DJ box. Much like the video/DVD transition, there are some who just couldn't let the past go and move into a new era and the same can be said for records. But if you have moved on to greater, better and more efficient music formats - say MP3s or even CDs - and are perhaps feeling a little guilty, like you've cheated on your record collection (or something like that), maybe you'll feel better with a collection of these. Now this is one thing its cooler cousins can't do - be transformed into coasters.

Made from reclaimed vintage records, these double sided vinyl coasters are great for people who are anal about spillages or music aficionado's who like to start sentences with "back in the day". The defunct records are all different so each pack consists of six randomly selected coasters. I can't think of a more rock and roll way to protect your coffee table from moisture and spillages.

£12.95 from Firebox

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What a great reason to have a little tipple to down a few bottles of beer. With every bottle of beer, alcopops or perhaps a non alcoholic beverage opened comes the ear pleasing sound of a guitar strumming, rock horn inducing, metal power-chord crunching guitar riff. And if you want to hear another riff, just open another bottle - simple.

So if you value great guitar riffs and are just looking for a reason, any reason to RAWK, pick one up here for $7.95.

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I think there was definitely drugs involved, perhaps some alcohol, fused together because someone thought it'd be a good idea to create a cerazy mind bending cocktail. Whatever narcotics the designer(s) of this timepiece were on, it made them do something crazy. I'm finding it quite difficult to ascertain quite what they were going for. It's basically a vibrantly coloured tube, a glorified pipe on a stand. But apparently it tells the time. I don't know about you, but there's just something about a colour coded clock (each pair of coloured bands relates to hours, minutes and seconds) that doesn't excite me very much.

So if you enjoy a challenge, a bit of a conundrum and you have at least ten minutes to spare every time you want to know the time, then you my friend, are a better person than me.

Does this time of year and the light deprivation make you emotionally imbalanced? Or perhaps you experience drowsiness, slow reactions, gain excess weight or have trouble sleeping? Want to eliminate those feelings of lethargy and lose those pounds? It doesn't promise anything (so basically don't expect a miracle), but the goLITE BLU is designed to help you prevent these problems. It does this by providing light therapy - emitting blue light waves designed to make you feel better.

I don't get it. If you're deprived from sunlight, a blue light isn't exactly a substitute. But according to a Philips spokesman, "blue light stimulates our biological clock the same way as watching the blue sky in summer" (funny, I didn't know the sky had that kind of effect). There have been trials. These trials have shown improvement is noticed as early as after a few days of use, using the device as little as 15-20 minutes a day.

Poisoning your party guests is never going to be a good thing - unless you're embroiled in an evil plot to kill your 89 year old lover to get your hands on his fortune (and you're in a movie of course). And if like me, cooking is a rarity, it's probably fair to say you wouldn't be able to tell your cooked steak to a medium rare one, to one that'd result in vomiting guests. If this describes you, you should think about getting the Audible Meat Thermometer from Weber.

The guessing game is over. It'll tell you exactly when your meat is cooked to perfection and if you happen to be multilingual you can be told in one of five different languages (English, French, Danish, German or Spanish). Once you've decided how you want your meat cooked, stick the sensor in and simply wait for you meat to brown... or not. When cooking is complete, the wireless thermometer (with a range of 30 meters) will literally tell you when your food is ready for consumption.

You'd like to think you don't know anyone who would want one of these, but you know that's not true. You also know there's a little part of you wondering if this shot gun would bring a new level of sophistication to your gatherings.

It won't.

But heck - who needs sophistimakation when there's tequila? You slide the holster over the top of the bottle, and then deliver the shots through the gun. Salt, lemon and hot bar tender not included.

£14.95 from DrinkStuff [via RandomGoodStuff]

One of the rituals of being a student undoubtedly has to be furtively stealing food from your flatmates (a situation I believe the producers of Hollyoaks are dealing with at the moment). Whether it's eggs, chocolate digestives, a tin of bake beans or even a pot of half eaten hoisin source - it just can't be helped (I never understood how someone can have a hot sauce addiction and never buy hot sauce!!). The politics of a shared fridge 99 percent of the time ends in arguments, intentional sabotage, bitchy comments and before you know it you've all fallen out, post-its are being used and you don't trust them enough to keep open food in the communal kitchen.

Could the Electrolux Flatshare Fridge solve the problem? I doubt it. In fact the only way to solve it would be to move out and take your pod with you - which you can totally do by the way.

Thought the Philips wake up light was cool? This one's American, and therefore comes with more bells, bigger whistles and is super-sized. Waaaay super-sized.

This Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock has the advantage of looking like a dalek - what could be more peaceful to wake up next to? There's also a scent, which is released as the gently glowing lamp warms the beads.

I don't know about you but mornings are not a good time for me. My boyfriend has even gone so far as to say I have a split personality pre coffee as I'm the grouchiest person in the world. Hence an alarm clock is essential for making sure I don't get fired, by making me leave the comfort of my bed.

I love the fact that this projects the time onto the wall as this will mean I'm really aware of what five more minutes actually entails, and whether I'm allowed to snooze again. It also means I'll never get caught out when the clocks change as the time is set by radio control which means it's always 100% accurate.

£29.99 from Oregon

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I'm pretty sure waking up to this in the morning would inspire you to buy, buy, sell, sell, indulge in some Campari at about midday, a prawn cocktail for lunch and stick a scrunchie in your hair by dinner. Nothing says the 80s like an Executive Toy, and the pin whatsitmagubbin was one of the best.

This clock won't dock your iPod, wake you to three different alarms or make you a cup of tea, but it does involve 3,000 pins and the lesser known D battery. I imagine it makes quite a spooky noise as the pins draw in and out of the background as well. What more could you ask for?

Get yours here [via Boing Boing Gadgets]

There ain't much news about this morning, folks. What there *is* however, is an awful lot of kitchen related gadgets. And before you ask, they're entirely different from the shredding scissors we wrote about here. For a start, they've got a green handle, rather than blue.

The picture's pretty self-explanatory - get a bunch of that herb stuff that looks like grass, cut, and end up with lots of little bits of that herb that looks like grass. You *know* there's someone on your shopping list who would die for these.

$9.99 here [via Gizmodiva]

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Christmas is a time for giving, drinking and potato peeling in my house. So the thought of an automatical potato peeling machine fills me with joy, because not only does it leave more time for giving (read: receiving) and drinking, but looking like that, it's bound to amuse my grandparents for at least two hours (there would be numerous discussions as to whether this actually *was* witchcraft).

Also, it peels off the skin in one continuous string. And there are limitless possibilities as to what you can do with a three foot length of potato peel over Christmas - an alternative eco tinsel springs immediately to mind.

$30 and a stressfree Christmas here [via Boing Boing Gadgets]

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Is there no end to R2D2 paraphernalia? This probably marks the 100th time R2D2 has been transformed into something gadgety - I lost count after the projecting alarm clock, mini fridge, USB hub and webcam. While R2D2 transformations usually fare well in my books, this robotic aquarium falls into the tacky and tasteless category for me. I put it down the exclusion of the blue panels on his arms and lower body. Yes I realise the blue panelling has been replaced with filters, overhead LED tank lights and other necessary fish tank equipment that'll ensure you don't wake up to find your fish floating upside down, but somehow it just makes this one look like an impostor. But that's just my opinion.

Find out what it does after the jump...

The drastic weather change hasn't gone unnoticed, and while some of us are happy to swap our gladiator sandals for Ugg boots, there are some who don't take to weather change very well. These people are just SAD. No I'm not mocking them for being affected by the shitty British weather, I'm highlighting that these people are prone to Seasonal Affective Disorder - a mood disorder that turns normal folk into depressed beings.

Don't let the crappy Blighty weather get the better of you and make you sink you into a reclusive winter depression, try the Philips Wake-Up Light and see if you can't shake that disorder off your back.

It's not difficult to persuade encourage suggest that people have a drink. Everyday work stress leads to the vast majority of the population wanting to let their hair down in their spare time, and this particular gadget makes drinking even more of a game than it already is. Stick the various parts to the fridge and create your own cocktails in a super stylish fashion. Pour a mixer into one funnel and alcohol into the other and watch them mix and swirl as they filter through the machine. It's a mixture of kerplunk and Mousetrap, with the winner getting the most intoxicated! You can connect up an Ice Chamber, vortex funnel and variety of pods to your fridge and then have some serious fun!

£24.95 from Boys Stuff [via Nerd Approved]

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There'll be no fleeing of this alarm when it turns on in the morning (well, I guess you could really, but it's called the Escape Clock, and is fashioned as an ESC key, so there had to be some kind of escapism reference in there somewhere). It isn't only used to get you out of bed in the mornings, either. The designer of the Escape Clock, Santiago Cantera, has equipped the huge escape key with the necessary technology to enable it to hook up wirelessly to a pair of speakers or a speaker dock.