Month: March 2012
WTF: This weird little PhotoGee doll is also a Polaroid printer
PhotoGee from Kobi Ka on Vimeo. There's nothing quite like opening an email on a Monday morning to be greeted by the line, "I thought you may be interested in my new project. It's a doll that poops photos". Yes, really. But fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) it's no joke. The new toy/printer/freaky gadget called the…
Pinterest to get a redesign, but does it need it?
Super popular and addictive photo sharing and curating network Pinterest is set to get a redesign in the coming months, but does it REALLY need to change? According to Mashable today, Pinterest's CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann has revealed at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas that our Pinterest profiles will soon be getting a…
GIFT GUIDE: Mother's Day gadgets and gifts for the techy yummy mummy
Just like Valentine's Day and Father's Day and every other kind of over-hyped 'day' in the calendar, Mother's Day means shops want to sell us cookbooks and chocolates, flowers and foot spas, but not every mum feels content in the kitchen or pampering her feet ALL the time. You might be surprised to hear that…
Twitter acquires Posterous, but your Space is safe FOR NOW
Popular blogging and sharing platform Posterous has been unexpectedly acquired by the annoying yet highly addictive Twitter, which has caused a lot of dedicated users to freak out about what happens to their Posterous blogs/Spaces/whatevs now. Tonight founder and CEO Sachin Agarwal revealed the news on the company's official blog and explained that he "couldn't…
Gowalla's dead: What does this mean for location-based services?
The hard to pronounce location-based application Gowalla, Foursquare's slicker but less popular little cousin, has closed its doors over the weekend after five pretty good years of show-offy check-ins and social travel guides. Three months after Facebook's talent acquisition of Gowalla, the site has officially shut down leaving us with a heartfelt goodbye and a…
SHINY COMPETITION: Win tickets to The Gadget Show Live with Jumbo
Shiny Shiny has teamed up with Jumbo to celebrate the games company's attendance at The Gadget Show Live next month by giving our readers the chance to win three pairs of sold-out weekend tickets to the event in Birmingham - plus a bundle of cool iPieces games too! Jumbo is showcasing a number of products…
GOODBYE iPHONE ENVY: Instagram to unveil Android app (soon)
For the longest time Android users have pretended they don't care about Instagram's faded filters, dreamy tilt-shift effects and retro borders, but now they can (finally) give up the charade and get on the Instagram bandwagon with the rest of us. Last year we all learned that Instagram had been developing an Android app, but…
WTF: Angry Birds teams up with… NASA?!
Rovio's Angry Birds has teamed up with NASA, yes NASA, to launch the latest 'space' version of the popular (and highly addictive) animal throwing game. At the SXSW interactive conference in Austin, Rovio and Samsung unveiled Angry Birds Space. NASA also got in on the action and an ACTUAL astronaut introduced the game from the…
APP OF THE DAY: Cinemagram creates cool animated photos with filters
New iPhone app Cinemagram allows you to create cool animated photos, complete with Instagram-like filters. Clever, huh? Here at Shiny Shiny we're a little obsessed with quirky (and sometimes a little tacky) animated gif images that flicker or sway or move ever so slightly as we watch them. They just seem so magical, right?! Well…
Facebook: Will Interest Lists mean more useful discovery, less obsessive stalking?
Today Facebook has introduced a new feature called Interest Lists, which makes the network seem much more about social discovery than obsessively stalking your ex. If you log-in to Facebook this morning, chances are you'll be greeted by a pop-up explaining that you can now create and subscribe to Interest Lists. The box at the…
