In these high-tension economic times, it pays to be canny. That is, after all, why you're surfing this fine website in search of cost-effective gadgetry rather than traipsing up and down the high street. So when it comes to putting a little something away for the future - and assuming one doesn't like the look of Northern Rock - there's no finer nor more sound place than in a good old fashioned 21st Century piggy bank.

You see, with one's bog standard, common-or-garden piggy bank, there's very little in the way of, how shall we say, interaction with said pig. Cash pops in. Tinkle, tinkle. End of story.

But now it's 2009 and there's a new sheriff in town. The hungry piggy bank, by dint of his hungriness, is a cut above one's average cash-starved porker. By inserting a coin of the realm in his cutesy little mouth, an electronic masticating device is activated, enabling the pig to chew away happily, eating one's cash and stowing it away safely for later.

And fear not, intrepid savers. Retrieval of said cash to spend on this website (or, should you be silly, somewhere else) is a mere bagatelle. No intestinal messing about is required. Simply unlock and remove for instant retail therapy.

Complete with appropriate sound effects, the Hungry Piggy Bank is, in short, the bank that likes to say oink. And for that we should all give thanks.