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An Australian survey has recently revealed that plasma televisions, Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are seriously power hungry gadgets. In the survey they said people should really turn off there gadgets at the power source and not leave them on standby as they still consume a fair amount of electricity. Now I'm far from the greenest person on the planet and nor do I intend on becoming one lol, but given the current financial climate I actually think I might take note and do this with my plasma television and Xbox 360 just to see if my electricity bill actually goes down at all.

Right its all been pretty quiet on the man blog and just to quickly fill you in I'm buying my first flat, well funky bachelor pad is what it will be. So anyway I had a £25 voucher for Waitrose from work so thought ah I can go get myself a new cheap toaster for my new kitchen (I haven't moved in yet by the way). When I was looking I saw a really cool looking toaster and thought ah that'll do, then I noticed it was a Porsche toaster and for £110 its not cheap lol. Yes as well as smoking pipes there are Porsche toasters who would have guessed!

I can't claim to know much about the world of HiFi and audio, but I do know the sound of a good set of speakers when I hear them. I haven't heard these gorgeous looking Amphion Xenon floor standing loudspeakers yet but if the noise they produce is as good as they look I'd certainly have a pair in my flat.

Another gadget for our virtual bachelor pad this time although being marketed as an Armani Television is actually made by Samsung. Apparently this TV will come in both 46 and 52 inch versions and uses full 1080p LCD television technology. Thats enough of the boring details, to keep it simple the picture on the Armani / Samsung television should be more than good enough to watch the football on with your mates and a cold 6 pack.

If we're all honest we would be able to admit that most of us could do with losing a few pounds around the waistline. Well it seems Nintendo have decided to take the boredom out of exercise with the forthcoming release of Wii Fit on the Nintendo Wii. It looks like a pretty cool gadget with two footpads that measure the treasure being applied to them. Although I think it Wii Fit will hit the newspapers after a load of the units break from super fat people using them!

Yup its sale time in the computer games industry especially with the excellent Microsoft Xbox 360 (who would have thought excellent and Microsoft would ever make it into the same sentence lol). Anyway they have just dropped the cheapest priced Xbox 360 now named the Xbox 360 Arcade to just £159.00 which I personally think is a bargain.

So you've managed to get enough money together for a deposit on your bachelor pad which at the moment if a hard thing to do or you already have somewhere to call home. And now you want to furnish it with all the cool and funky furniture you can find. Well this contemporary leather sofa could be right up your street. Personally I think people will think the design is either cool and funky or just plain ostentatious lol. As you can see from the pictures below it has some huge rooly polly arms on this sofa and I just can't make up my mind if I like it or not. Apparently being made from Italian leather its weighs in at a not too bad price of $1,799.00 which is around £900.00 in our money. (not sure why I ut this under gadgets although not sure we really need a furniture category, just yet anyway). 

Want to make your bachelor pad look really stupid? Well I think I've just found the thing with this crazy looking bed with integrated TV that looks mad lol. Its apparently a modern contemporary design by Karim Rashid but I think its more retro 60's love shack in style! It comes with a built in 32 inch LCD TV with florescent lights in the top.

The much anticipated Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 release dates for Grand Theft Auto IV have been confirmed by Rockstar Games as the 29th of April. The date is for a worldwide release and if I was a betting man I'd put money on Grand Theft Auto IV being one of the biggest games (if not the biggest) of 2008.

Yup direct from Macworld 2008 is the unsurprising announcement that Apple will release the Macbook Air, and just look at the gadget it stupidly tiny and thin (high five). No doubt will be a great gadget for working on the train then (I'm rather tempted to buy one for writing my blogs on whilst commuting) and isn't too badly prices for an Apple notebook with prices starting from £1,199 (then again the Macbook Air isn't too cheap either).