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.
In defence of the selfie stick
If there's one thing that grinds the gears of the angry Twitter masses more than TFL and a brand tweeting a typo, it has to be the selfie stick. These little inventions have developed a bad rep over the past year or so, you'd think that they'd been spawned by the devil. Admittedly many of…
5 New apps to watch in 2015: Veeemotion, Slack, Bubbly
This post is sponsored and written in collaboration with Veeemotion. Now we're a fortnight into 2015, it's about time to start making predictions about the apps that are going to have us hooked and the startups to keep an eye on over the next twelve months. We've collected together some of the apps that have…
5 Apps that give you control of your content: Veeemotion, Evernote, Snapchat
This post is sponsored and written in collaboration with Veeemotion. A few years ago, when social media was relatively new and young, many people mindlessly shared their thoughts, their photos, their videos, and everything else whizzing through their heads on a daily basis, with friends and contacts online. However, over the past twelve months there's…
Weevmee creates colourful unique art from your Instagram feed
Over the years we've come across so many different companies dedicated to transforming your Instagram snaps into, well, pretty much anything. Marshmallows? Check. Cushions? Check. Think of any product and there's likely to be someone pasting (or digitally printing, or whatever) an Instagram photo to it right now. Weevmee is no exception, promising to turn…
CES 2015: The iSketchnote transfers notes and sketches to your iPad
Ever wished you could easily transfer all your sketches, drawings, diagrams, brainstorms and mad musings from your notebook to the digital world? Well, at CES 2015 the iSketchnote was unveiled, a pen, app and drawing slate combo that can do just that, turning your offline scribbles into files that can be shared and edited on…
CES 2015: iON unveils SnapCam wearable for 24/7 live streaming
We're all used to seeing wearables built for tracking activity, but a new trend that's set to take over 2015 is wearables built for live streaming and always-on cameras. This new SnapCam from iON, which was unveiled at CES 2015 this week, is a great offering, complete with an 8 MP sensor, HD video capabilities…
CES 2015: Polar unveils A300 wearable activity tracker
Another day of CES 2015, another new fitness tracker is unveiled. This time we welcome the A300 wristband tracker from Polar, a wearable designed with both fitness and more general activity tracking in mind. Let's start with looks, the A300 like the Garmin Vivofit, is actually a small device that slots into a specially designed…
CES 2015: Misfit unveils Bolt, a colour-changing smart bulb
Misfit already WOW-ed wearable tech fans at CES 2015 with the news that it's teamed up with Swarovski to make its always-on gadgets more stylish than ever. But it seems the brand is widening the net a little, because its big product launch in Las Vegas this week has been all about a lightbulb rather…
CES 2015: Hands-on with Polaroid’s new selfie phone with a twisting camera
Although we may all associate the brand with instant photos and the chorus "shake it like a Polaroid picture" (thanks Outkast), Polaroid is now trying its hand at mobile phones, unveiling three different models at CES 2015: The Selfie, Flip and Snap. Our editor Holly had some hands-on time with the Polaroid Selfie, by far…
CES 2015: Hands-on video with the Huawei Ascend Mate 7
On the first official day of CES 2015, our editor Holly filmed a hands-on with Huawei's latest huge handset, the Ascend Mate 7. Although it's not a new phone for CES, it's a great one to check out in the flesh. The phablet-sized aluminium handset is 6 inches with a full HD screen paired with…
