Author: Becca Caddy
Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.
Cameron puts down his phone to talk about the UK's digital future
At the opening of the CeBit show in Hanover, Germany over the weekend David Cameron spoke about his strategy for the UK's digital spectrum, which will welcome 5G mobile broadband speeds capable of downloading a film in less than a second. According to Business Week, Cameron spoke at length about his plans to make the…
Livr: The app that wants you to get wasted and drunk dial strangers
Nope, unfortunately for the human race you're actually NOT reading an entry from The Lad Bible's Facebook page, but an app that encourages people to binge drink, post photos of their antics and then hook up with drunken strangers is now a real life thing and it's called Livr - presumably because that's the main…
Blocks: A smartwatch you can build all by yourself
The concept behind Google's Project Ara phone (due for a 2015 launch now) is that the power is totally in the hands of the user. They decide which bits they want on their phone and how it'll look, and it can all be built using a series of modular parts. Well now the Project Ara…
Samsung working on S-Circle a low-end activity tracker
Samsung may have only just unveiled its next round of Galaxy Gear smartwatches at MWC, as well as its Galaxy Fit tracking device, but it seems the tech giant is continuing on its wearable quest with the S-Circle. According to Engadget, the S-Circle is a yet-to-be-announced wearable band device that's this week cropped up at…
Findery: An app like Instagram but for places (not selfies)
Created by Flickr inventor, Caterina Fake, Findery is a website and iOS app that's a little like Instagram for places - snap a photo of something, tag the location and then leave a tip about why it's unusual/awesome/tasty. Your locations are all shared on a constant stream that anyone could see, but you can also…
Jawbone wants you to stop being such a coffee fiend
Jawbone is branching into different areas of health and fitness tracking this week, as it's announced its new app: Up Coffee. Up Coffee allows you to steadily track your caffeine intake throughout the day by how much coffee, fizzy drinks and other foods you consume, and it then gives you an indication of how your…
App of the day: UpWord Notes is your new favourite to-do list app
If you still haven't clicked with a to-do list app and just know that having one by your side will make you 985835 times more productive, then we might have just the solution: UpWord Notes. The to-do list app that launched late last month is very similar to another of our favourites, Clear, but it's…
Lifesaver: This secret agent iPhone case has its own panic button
The Lifesaver may look like a regular durable iPhone case, but the new Indiegogo campaign has a panic button built-in that will contact emergency services immediately and provide them with your details and location straight away. The button itself has a slide and push motion to activate it, which means it's easy enough to do…
Is Apple planning on using biometric data to sync up your devices?
Apple's iPhone 5s already has Touch ID - a fingerprint identity scanner - but according to one of the company's recently published patent applications, biometric data could soon play a key role in how we use our iDevices. Cult of Mac reports that Apple plans on acquiring a patent for a method of wireless pairing…
Spritz helps you read 1,000 words a minute
Gone are the days of cuddling up with your favourite novel and slowly immersing yourself in the beautiful prose, it's 2014 and no one has time for that. Enter Spritz a new kind of speed reading app that could help you read 1,000 words a minute (the gif above shows 500 wpm) and most novels…
