Month: January 2012
Apple launches iBooks 2 digital textbook platform
Apple has launched a new digital platform called iBooks 2, which aims to reinvent our notions of the traditional textbook and instead provide students and teachers all over the globe with educational resources straight to their iPads. The iBooks 2 platform (a revamped version of Apple's eBook reading app for iOS devices), will allow students…
Urbanears launches Editions range with quilted headphones
One of our all-time favourite headphone manufacturers, Urbanears, has launched a new Editions range in limited numbers and each model brings a little extra something to your ears. Even though one of the best things about the Urbanears headphones is that they're so bright and colourful, we love this new limited edition black quilted Plattan…
Facebook brings users new Timeline Open Graph apps
Today Facebook has launched a series of new applications that allow users to enhance their timelines and have interactions beyond the standard "like", "comment" and "share" functions we've become accustomed to. Using a "user-action-object" language, Facebook now allows for more app-specific interactions. So, a cooking app for instance could have see Becca (the user) cook…
How to brighten up your gadgets, your desk & your life
Yes it's a total cliche to feel a bit blue in January, but what can we say, it's hit us hard. Whether it's the gloomy weather here in London, the post-CES comedown or the agressive commuters that elbow-barge us into oncoming traffic, we're all a bit down and need some picking up. So here are…
YouTube launches Your Film Festival story telling competition
Our favourite time-sucking video community YouTube has today launched a new global competition called Your Film Festival, which will see one aspiring film-maker win $500,000 and work with Ridley Scott to bring their ideas to life on the big screen. What. A. Prize. YouTube is working with the Venice Film Festival and Emirates to begin…
HANDS ON: Largest NES game controller earns Guinness World Records spot
Today Shiny Shiny and our sister site Tech Digest went along to London's Liverpool Street Station to get some hands-on time with the daddy of all retro controllers. Read more about our (potentially) record breaking Tetris game and our interview with British electrical engineering student Ben Allen who put together the huge NES... The Guinness…
Angry Brides game highlights the problem of illegal dowry
We've all heard of the bright, irritating and highly addictive bird hurling game Angry Birds, but how about trying your hand at Angry Brides instead... Don't worry, you don't have to hurl worried wedding guests at shaky structures, but you can hit a range of well-dressed, rather smug-looking men with flip flops, stilettos and other…
Nissan developing self-healing, Scratch Shield iPhone case
Although even the toughest cases may keep your phone scratch-free, they're certainly not invincible, and if you're as clumsy as us you end up working your way through them at a rather fast pace. Well now Nissan aims to bring the clever paint technology it uses on some of its cars to a phone case…
Websites 'go dark' in protest of the SOPA and PIPA acts
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Today a number of websites both big and small have decided to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US. The most popular sites that have gone dark today include Wikipedia, Boing…
All you need to know about how to get started with Pinterest
Ahh Pinterest, we've professed our love for the quirky virtual pin board website many times in the past, but over the last few weeks it's gained a huge following very very quickly. It's always had a fairly active community, but now everyone (and we mean everyone) has woken up to the site. If you don't…
