Here's a bit of good news to start your 2009 - Creative is launching the HD follow up to the popular Vado, inspiringly named the Creative Vado HD. You'll be able to record up to two hours of 720p footage, which will fill the 8GB of onboard non-expandable memory. It's available now in the UK,…

We all dream about having the bestest, most excellent or ultimate mobile phone (at least the true geeks do anyway) and we're not far off from having every aspect of our everyday lives crammed into a plastic brick. But picture this, if you will - a mobile that acts as a dishwasher, can iron out…

If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call? Well... no one - just go on line and see how much crime is going down in your neck of the woods. If you fear your area is heavily embedded with crime - possibly knife and gun toting hoodies/youths running around, wreaking havoc in…

Bad news if you love big tellies and hate rainforests, polar bears and little innocent babies - plasma TVs are at risk of being banned by the EU for being unenvironmentally friendly. They're being branded 'the 4x4s of the living room' because they use up to four times more energy than CRT TVs and still…

I adore it when Zara finds fitness gadgets to film - I always finish watching the video thinking that that particular product is definitely the one to end my regime of non excercise. This one is no exception - not only does it involve centrifugal force (see below) it has flashing lights. Is it a…

Previously, looking at technology allowing you, as a parent, to track your child via GPS has horrified me. How are kids ever going to learn the art of 'yeah mum, I'm at Katie's house (ha ha ha, I'm totally hanging out at the park)' if parents insist on having a latitude and longitude at all…

Twitter is taking the world by storm - even the celebs want in on the Twittersphere. But can you imagine if the internet made an appearance waaaay before Vinton Cerf came up with the brain wave in 1973, and simultaneously, the ancestors of the brain box's behind Twitter invented microblogging and brought us Twitter at…

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…