Month: January 2013
Best of the blogs: gaming console the size of a flash drive, GameStick, Kickstarter project, Anne Hathaway's red carpet style and New Year eco resolutions
It's back to the daily grind for us Shiny folk, which means we've been busy writing while drinking our weight in coffee. As we prepare for this year's CES, over on Tech Digest, we've looked at Kickstarter project - GameStick - which puts Android games on your bigscreen TV. And the best thing about it:…
Parents served a stalking order after monitoring daughter's phone and computer
We always come across really worrying software and apps designed to help suspicious - and sometimes just actually mental - people stalk their boyfriends and girlfriends and wives and husbands. However, a case over in the US has got people talking because a college student has been granted a civil stalking order against her parents…
Google creates cute map of New Year's resolutions
After years of making resolutions then breaking them within hours we've been careful this year to come up with plans that are cheesy and pretty abstract, like "be more happy" and "chase those dreams" and it seems we're not the only ones. Google has created a map to coincide with the New Year that aims…
CES 2013: Tobii to showcase REX eye tracking tech for Windows 8
Back in December 2011 the Shiny Shiny and Tech Digest teams went along to a special preview of the world's first eye-controlled arcade game, called Eye Asteroids developed by Tobii. Over the past few years the specialists at Tobii have been developing all kinds of new ways to integrate their eye tracking technology into our…