REVIEW: Jawbone makes Bluetooth headsets cool with the brand new Era

When many of our readers hear of the Jawbone brand they probably think of its small Jambox speaker or the Up and new UP 24 (expect a review of this one soon) fitness trackers. But Jawbone has ventured into the world of Bluetooth, hands-free headsets before and actually started out its life with a mission…

ShinyShiny interviews Georgia LA from The Fox Problem

This is a sponsored post in conjunction with HP and The Fox Problem. Our competition with HP and The Fox Problem has just ended, ahead of a final party with The Fox Problem girls and loads of awesome music in London this evening. To celebrate the end of the latest season of The Fox Problem,…

Turns out your phone already has a heart rate sensor like the Galaxy S5's

[share title="Why not share this post with others" facebook="true" twitter="true" google_plus="true" linkedin="true" pinterest="true" reddit="true" email="true"] The new Samsung Galaxy S5 is packed full of new and very enticing features, but the one that's excited us health and fitness tech fans here at Shiny Shiny the most has to be the built-in heart rate sensor. But…

Game of Thrones was so popular it brutally slaughtered HBO Go

Fear not, UK readers! We won't give anything away about the premiere of season four, other than tell you that so many US fans tuned in to the first episode last night that they managed to crash HBO's streaming service. HBO charges its users about $20 a month to subscribe to its channel and its…

Night vision contact lenses could soon turn us all into superheroes

It may sound like a power reserved for Superman or one of the X-Men, but according to new research from engineers at the University of Michigan, night vision contact lenses may soon no longer the stuff of sci-fi movies. According to Wired, researchers Ted Norris and Zhaohui Zhong have been working on an ultra-thin infrared…

Google teases us with Project Ara modular smartphone details

Remember Project Ara? It's Google's big plan to create a modular smartphone, which would allow people to pick and choose exactly how their mobile phone would look and operate based on a series of blocks, or modules. Well the Google team has released a new video all about Project Ara and the people behind it,…

3Doodler: World's first 3D printing pen hits Maplin

Big Shiny Shiny fans will remember that last year we covered the 3Doodler, the world's first 3D-printing pen that had just launched a Kickstarter project. Well it turned into one helluva success story, because fast-forward 14 months and the 3Doodler is being sold exclusively in Maplin. The 3Doodler allows you to draw anything you like…

Vine copies Instagram and adds private messaging feature

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][text_output]Today Vine has taken a leaf out of Instagram's book and has added a private messaging feature into its popular video-looping app. But the big question is: will anyone use it? A post on the Vine blog today by Jason Toff, the app's Product Manager, reveals that Vine users can now send each other…

Is James Franco an Instagram creeper or just doing PR for Palo Alto?

Yesterday the internet was ablaze with a particularly scandalous social media scandal. Everyone's favourite art-y, hispter-y type James Franco allegedly sent a bunch of private Instagram messages and texts to a 17-year-old girl from Scotland asking her to meet up with him. The girl, named Lucy Clode, was apparently staying in New York with her…