Australians are spending up big on the latest gadgets, parting with 5.9 billion dollars for digital technology last year alone.

Canon’s Consumer Digital Lifestyle index reveals that our love affair with LCD TVs continues, making up 38.1 percent of tech sales in 2009…up a whopping 40 percent over the previous year.

Other popular gadget buys included Video Game consoles which accounted for 13.9 percent of sales in the index…and high end digital cameras, while making up 11.7 percent of sales, actually grew 100 percent over sales in 2008…which points towards users replacing older digital cameras with higher quality products for a better result.

More information – The Canon Digital Lifestyle Index.