What do they say the perfect woman should be? A maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a **** in the bedroom. Sounds like a great deal we have going there... Then again, if you add the Demy to the mix, it might make our job slightly easier. But what is this rather delectable looking device, and how does it work?

The Demy is a touchscreen digital cookbook, which can store up to 2500 recipes. You can browse through them on the device and add your favourites to your shortlist. The idea is that you use this in conjunction with the Key Ingredient site, which has masses of free recipes for you to download.

With the government's plans to oust the standard light bulb, in an attempt to make us more energy efficient in the lighting department, there needs to be another way for us to appreciate our lighting (seeing as most energy saving bulbs suck). Enter Blown Up Lamps. Now this is one way to enjoy balloon animals without getting strange looks from parents with small children.

When starting a child, you have to remember that this thing will eventually go out into the world and represent you - if that child gets down to Duran Duran, it's not going to reflect well on you. The key is to catch 'em young.

This baby bouncer has an iPod mount at the rear, which will pipe the music to the child, as well as vibrate the chair in time to the music. It's a little bit like sticking them next to the speaker at a NIN gig, but slightly less harmful for their baby ears (although how cute are the babies at festivals with those ear guards on?). That way, you can counter the inevitable nursery rhyme dross they get at playschool with some quality tunes.

$79 from Think Geek

And the prize for the most useless gadget goes to *drum roll* the Digi-Mug. It's one of those thermo flask/cup/mug thingamajigs, with a digital photo viewer on the side, should you want to take in some photo viewing each time you pull it away from your pursed lips. As far as thermo flask/cup/mug thingamajigs go, they're not even mildly exciting in the slightest, and slapping a digi photo viewer on the side doesn't really transform its boring status to something incredible or even remotely interesting.

It'd probably be best to leave the thermos/flask/mugs to do what they do best and digital photo viewers to steer clear of collaborations with common household items.

[via iGizmo]

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There's a weird correlation between geeks and cooking. Whether it's Flickr galleries of cupcakes or birthday cakes in the shape of your favourite Atari icon, there's something about all that weighing and measuring that gets your average techy hot under the collar.

Following swiftly on from the 8-bit oven gloves, this is the Pacman oven mitt. And yes, they're those ones that no one ever really uses, because in their heart of hearts, they suspect that the heat of the oven will melt the plastic, permanently welding the mitt to their hand. No? Just me? Huh.

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There's nothing like a hot cup of tea to help you get through your day (or in my case hot Ribena). Now, the Tefal Quick Cup caused quite a stir when it made its debut into the mainstream. 'Is it actually a kettle?' was probably the most frequently asked question - which is fair enough considering it doesn't actually boil. You had those who took an abhorrent liking to it and those for which the Quick Cup revolutionised their tea drinking lives.

Well if you thought having the ability to whip up a cup of tea in 3 seconds and save on the leccy bill, using a device that comes in a neat and easy to use package was impressive, prepare for your jaw to hit the floor. Introducing the Quick Cup Deluxe - the newer, smarter and sleeker version of the Tefal Quick Cup.

A manual juicer... Really? Well, I suppose we are still in the month of improbable diets and detox resolutions. So if the thought of manually reducing your fruit and veg to a yummy pulp while simultaneously keeping control of those bingo wings, has more appeal than shoving your fruit (with the skins on) into a machine and letting technology run its course (and you're a bit on the eco-friendly side) the hand cranking Easy Health Juicer is your juice extractor. Just attach to any smooth surface, sentence your fruit or veg to a crushing death and crank away.

Based on the picture, something tells me extracting juice from anything in the grocery arena isn't going to be effortless. But on the upside - being healthy and eco-friendly... it's an environmental vegetarian's dream.

£30 from Eco Outlet

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Remember the days when you and your siblings would attempt to concoct your very own catapult by snapping a branch off a tree? The day when you discovered when coupled with elastic bands and sellotape, it turned out to be a half decent catapult? Or perhaps I'm not the only one who's attempted to send their toast hurtling across the room from the toaster directly onto your plate. In retrospect, I can accept that the rules of physics just won't allow it, but that didn't stop me from wearing out the springs of my parent's toaster. Now you can fulfil your toast catapulting desires and relive those formative years with this modern twist on the catapulting trebuchet - the Toaster Trebuchet.

Now, unless you're a master of velocity and accuracy, it might take you a while to develop a certain deftness that'll get the toast directly on your plate. So luckily, you can set the angle and force of ejection to hone those catapulting skills.

Desks are very boring places, unless like me, you're a hoarder of tat and have a relatively interesting assortment of plush/plastic/metal toys on your desks and perhaps a few USB peripherals to help you through those tirelessly tedious moments. But other than the entertaining junk, that's got nothing to do with the progression of your work (unless you deem playing with toys as work), what else can you adorn your desk with so it's not just a place to rest your desktop PC? Get a desk pet (I'd love the miniature elephant from the Kleenex ads) or maybe a little desktop slave robot would do it? Far fetched ideas aside, how about something more feasible? Take the Chain Lamp - it's a lamp, yes, but a very *very* sweet looking one.

It's a light. And also a handheld vacuum. According to the manufacturers, it will mean "no more searching around the house frantically for a mains powered vacuum". Because apparently I'm the only person in the world who has a place she always keeps her mains powered vacuum. For the rest of you, this is a brilliant idea. Can I suggest maybe extending the idea to the rest of your stuff? Perhaps tie your broom to your telly. Or your mop to your bookcase. The possibilities are, quite literally, endless.

Next up, a bottle opener that is also a picture frame, a shoe horn that is also a walky talky and a mirror that is also a kettle. Can't wait. To get hold of this rechargeable handheld vacuum with a washable filter and a bagless dirt cup, pay this site £25.

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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]