Author: Susi Weaser
New Year smoothies without the non-smooth bits
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…
No Mess Peeler: This is what the future of vegetable peeling looks like
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…
CES 2009: NJOY ecigarettes
Zara managed to track down the only manufacturer of e-cigarettes here in the US, NJOY. And there's more than just cigarettes - there are styles that will make you look (kind of) like Audrey Hepburn, and another that will make you look like Groucho Marx. What fun.
Death to accidentally wiping iPods, with the TuneBlocker
I've lost count of the number of times I've plugged in my iPod to a new computer and absent mindedly wiped the whole library, thanks to accidentally syncing it. You'd think it would be a lesson learned, but apparently I don't have the mental capacity for that. So, the TuneBlocker sounds like a dream come…
CES 2009: MoveIt Mini Android-based media player
It's easy to leave CES feeling jaded, cynical and knackered. It's products like the MoveIt Mini, from GiiNii, though, that make it all worth while. We might be slightly hysterical from lack of sleep and too much roulette, but we think it's awesome. On the face of it, it's a WiFi enabled media player. With…
CES 2009: Sony P Series
The Sony P Series has been met with a fair amount of skepticism here at CES - can it justify the £850 price tag in a world of cheap as chips netbooks? I got some time with it this afternoon, and I have to say, if nothing else, the build quality trumps any netbook I've…
CES 2009: Sony's X and W Series Walkmans
Lucy is evangelical about Sony's Walkman range, I'm more... meh. Having said that, I'm a new fan of a couple of the products they released this week. The W Series is less an MP3 player, and more a headband, whilst the X Series boasts a pretty bloody amazing screen. Take a look, why doncha'. For…
Go! Go! Go! Windows 7 available in Beta now!!!
Need something to do this weekend? It's apparently quite chilly in the UK today, so I'd recommend hunkering under the duvet, and getting yourself some Windows 7 action. It's been released in Beta, and there's hope that it's going to remedy all the things everyone hated about Vista. Steve Ballmer called it a "new media…
CES 2009: Motorola Surf
Zara swung by the Motorola stand here at CES, and managed to lay her hands on the Surf, the latest high spec handset from Motorola. It promises Windows Mobile Professional 6.1, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, AGPS and a microSD slot, but did it make the Zara grade?
CES 2009: Sonoro brings on the Stardust
You know when you see something and you're all, like, "OMG, that's *so* Shiny Shiny"? Yeah. That. This is the Sonoros Stardust, which is adorned by no fewer than 3,900 Swarovski crystals, ADORNED BY HAND. Can you imagine having that job? Under that sparkle, there's an AM/FM radio, an aux in jack for MP3 players,…
