With the BBC's exploration of celeb family history Who Do You Think You Are? due to begin again in July, Avanquest has announced the latest version of its genealogy software, Family Tree Maker Deluxe v4. It's the latest way to discover that, rather than being a direct descendant of Shakespeare, your oldest known ancestor was…

They might be packing up at Glasto, but the festival season is just getting started. And if you're going to survive it, you're going to need the right kit (and we don't just mean the industrial quantities of Nurofen). Check out the gallery for our favourite tents (from top whack to cheap as chips), all…

As the increasingly-unpopular George Osborne announces that, as part of the new budget, incapacity benefits will be cut, we wondered: if we at Shiny Shiny had our own emergency tech budget (*shudder*), what would we cut if it came to the crunch (*double shudder*)? Naturally, it's a matter of personal taste - we imagine that…

After the inevitable walk of shame back to our fair isles, the England team is going to need some serious cheering up. And so we reckon the first thing they should all do when they get home is spend some of their 'hard-earned' cash. Below are the (outrageously) expensive gadgets they can blow their Premiership…

We've got that Friday feeling here at Shiny Towers. And to celebrate, we've compiled a gallery some of the strangest (and, in some cases, stupidest) gadgets around. Mad, bad and plain bizarre, using this kit will certainly get you noticed. If not necessarily for the right reasons.

Even if your summer holiday 2010 looks likely to be more Cornish than Caribbean, the latest and greatest travel gadgets are as essential as your daily dose of Saint Tropez. Have a look at our gallery to see the gizmos which will make the journey that little bit smoother.

No, the name doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. But who cares when this set of desktop speakers and matching amplifier looks this good? Eclipse is a division of the Fujitsu-Ten audio group, and so has access to the technology and engineering resources of Toyota and Fujitsu. And it shows. Their latest sound system, available…