The spectacle industry has taken to augmented reality like a duck to water. They have cottoned to the fact that a little AR camera-work helps replicate the vital stage of letting people try on glasses. Silhouette, the makers of rimless...more
A few more reasons why FourSquare will be this year's Twitter: it's just signed a couple of deals with some serious media brandnames. Discussing the potential of the site yesterday, we mentioned the location-based social game's partnership with Bravo TV...more
If flirting on Facebook is easier than flirting in person, surely flirting via cuddly animals on a Facebook app should be easiest of all - no? That's what Pet Society are claiming anyway as we face the final few days...more
iPhones and iPod Touches don't have SD memory slots and it gets annoying sometimes, it's hard to fit pictures, vidoes and music on 16gb. But a hardware makers zoomMediaPlus have just created an iPhone accessory - the zoomlt - that...more
It won't pick you up from the side of the road and lovingly restore your pooped car engine, but the British Automobile Association (AA) have released an iPhone app. Focussing more on the guidebook side of the business rather than...more
If Google made t-shirts, is this what they'd look like? Well they might do, three fashion pieces inspired by Google are currently on limited sale in the the Google store. The pieces are by young designers who are finalists in...more
As Valentine's Day approaches and our thoughts turn to warm sensual things, we have the good fortune to offer a ShinyShiny reader one particular warm sensual thing - not a hug I'm afraid, but a warm sensual massager, courtesy...more
Canon has just released its most advanced consumer digital SLR camera to date. If you are a keen amateur professional, this is probably the best bit of kit you can get your hands on right now. The EOS 550D...more
Glimmering in metallic candy colours, Canon have released a few new additions to their IXUS range of small sleek user-friendly cameras. The IXUS 130 and 105 have some fun features thrown into their slender colourful cases: Both models feature...more
Everybody's favourite new NSFW video chat website seems to be Chatroulette. Like Skype gone bad, it's a simple video chat service that requires no log-in, no registration and confronts you with a succession of complete strangers in one-on-one video chat....more
The location-based game Foursquare has been rocketing to success with US visits to the site jumping 50% in January according to Hitwise. We reviewed the app back when it hit London in October, but looks like it's finally taking off,...more
In an exciting move, Samsung Electro-Mechanics have just purchased a technology called Quantum Tunnelling Composite or QTC that brings third dimension to touch screens. Samsung claims that QTC will allow devices like phones to accept 3D input - by...more
Kudos to Facebook for continuing to innovate. The homepage of Facebook's 350 million users has just undergone a big front-end update that forefronts what's new and makes it just that bit harder to log out (two clicks not one now)....more
Ovi Maps has been a run-away success on the Nokia app store with the maps and navigation app racing past 1 million downloads in a single week. "We're averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day," said Anssi Vanjoki,...more
Soon bed-time stories will be able to read themselves to your kids. Penguin's new digital Qbooks for kids bring touch and voice technology to popular children's picture books. So you may not need to be there for their bedtime -...more
I'd heard of pasta-making machines, but not toilet-paper manufacturing ones. But a Japanese company have taken recycling to a new level by making one. And not only have they made it, they've called it White Goat which is a great...more
Facebook released some stats on how users have adapted to the new privacy environment on the site, introduced at the beginning of December. There were worries that people wouldn't bother to customise their privacy settings and would just let Facebook's...more
Valentine's day is next week - what are you going to get the sweet geek girl in your life/ get for yourself/share with the cat? ShinyShiny have rustled up a selection of geeky Valentine's presents, ranging from the cute to...more
Either romantic or schmaltzy depending on your current relationship status and attitude to romance, the ifallinlove app syncs to your lover's iPhone and depending on how near you are to the object of your affections, the heart on the screen...more
Augmented Reality app Layar may not work on the iPhone for a few months to come, but in the meantime try out AR iPhone app World Surfer 2. Made by San Fran company Geovector, World Surfer 2 is an augmented...more
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