Facebook: New Timeline-style features come to groups

This week Facebook has begun rolling out a new look for its groups, which sees eight random members' faces across the top of the screen, a feature much like the Timeline cover photo, and we're not sure whether we love it or hate it... Group administrators will be receiving messages telling them about the new…

Fancy: Like Pinterest but much more about buying all the things

As we're all so obsessed with Pinterest at the moment, we thought we'd take a look at a new social commerce website called Fancy, which many have suggested is a high-end alternative to the popular pin-board community. Fancy describes itself as: "Part store, blog, magazine and wishlist. It's a place to discover great stuff, to…

Nike+ unveils new pressure sensor shoes for basketball and training

Nike+ launched back in 2006 and since it's added a number of great products and tools to its eco-system, like the exciting new Fuelband, designed to track all of your fitness activities throughout the day. This week Nike took a further step into the world of fitness and exercise tracking as it officially unveiled new…

LFW: Burberry shows it knows its stuff when it comes to fashion AND social media

Over the past few years, British fashion house Burberry has become almost as well-known for its innovative online activity as it is for its trench coats and iconic tartan print. The brand has made its mark on Instagram, paved the way for other brands when it comes to f-commerce and designed a pretty slick Google+…

Flickr to roll out a new Pinterest style redesign

In the next few months one of our favourite photo sharing sites, Flickr, will be getting a fancy makeover, with a streamlined photo feed design and a new uploading tool too, according to Mashable. The simpler photo stream design, called Justified View, will look a lot more grid-like, and has many drawing comparisons to the…

BEWARE: 34% of Brits WILL show your naked sex photos to their friends

It seems that none of us have learned from the recent spate of celebrity photo scandals, as according to a recent study more than a quarter of Brits have sex photos on their mobile phones right now, and that's just the ones who are willing to admit it. Maybe we're not such an uptight and…

Panasonic unveils the stylish Eluga waterproof smartphone

Panasonic has unveiled a new smart phone for European markets, strangely named 'The Eluga', which sounds a bit like the beluga whale or some kind of cheap perfume, but in fact comes from the phrase 'elegant user-oriented gateway'. Fancy. The official Panasonic Twitter account revealed details of the phone earlier in the week and this…

Is it acceptable to use your mobile phone EVERYWHERE now?

We all know we use our mobile phones far too often, so when we came across research detailing whereabouts we end up texting, calling and Facebook stalking, we weren't at all surprised that the results revealed we actually do those things EVERYWHERE. However, as we started reading the stats from a recent survey into mobile…

Will Amazon soon launch a colour E Ink touchscreen Kindle?

Here at Shiny Shiny we've made peace with the fact that we rarely pick up actual books anymore and reach for our cute little Kindles instead. But as advanced as the Kindle's E Ink display is, it still lacks something that 'real life' books have nailed, colour. Well it seems a fancy colour Kindle may…