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Like many men (and women) I am a sucker for a shiny new piece of technology.

Sleek cutting edge looks, functions I will never use (much less understand) and a fancy name all tick my consumer box.

So when the computer generated design for Aquamarine Power's updated Oyster wave device, pictured above, dropped in to my inbox I really had to share it.

Putting aside the name - Oyster 2 doesn't quite have the punch of Oyster 2.0, Oyster Plus or Oyster Evolution does it? - it is a lovely looking piece of industrial science fiction style kit.

A big day for one of the great renewable energy hopes in Scotland.
Aquamarine Power invited along First Minister Alex Salmond to officially switch on its Oyster device.

The technology is said to be the "world's largest working hydro-electric wave energy device" and was installed at Billia Croo near Stromness, Orkney, in the summer. 

It works by pumping high pressure water to an onshore hydro-electric turbine which feeds power into the National Grid.