AA do a Best of Britain iPhone app

It won't pick you up from the side of the road and lovingly restore your pooped car engine, but the British Automobile Association (AA) have released an iPhone app. Focussing more on the guidebook side of the business rather than the car repair side, The AA's Best of Britain app gives detailed descriptions of holiday…

Three fashion pieces inspired by Google…

If Google made t-shirts, is this what they'd look like? Well they might do, three fashion pieces inspired by Google are currently on limited sale in the the Google store. The pieces are by young designers who are finalists in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition sponsored by the search engine. The t-shirt above is by…

Shiny Valentine's Giveaway: Philips Sensual massager

As Valentine's Day approaches and our thoughts turn to warm sensual things, we have the good fortune to offer a ShinyShiny reader one particular warm sensual thing - not a hug I'm afraid, but a warm sensual massager, courtesy of Phillips. Yes it is indeed called the Philips Warm Sensual Massager for Sharing and has…

Canon launches EOS 550D – top range consumer digital SLR

Canon has just released its most advanced consumer digital SLR camera to date. If you are a keen amateur professional, this is probably the best bit of kit you can get your hands on right now. The EOS 550D comes from Canon's acclaimed EOS range and melds some impressive features with a compact, light-weight body.…

Canon's sleek new IXUS 130 and 105 cameras, activate with a wink

Glimmering in metallic candy colours, Canon have released a few new additions to their IXUS range of small sleek user-friendly cameras. The IXUS 130 and 105 have some fun features thrown into their slender colourful cases: Both models feature a 28mm wide angle 4x zoom lens - allowing you to fit everyone in the frame…

Chatroulette: video-chat with randoms on scary but addictive new site

Everybody's favourite new NSFW video chat website seems to be Chatroulette. Like Skype gone bad, it's a simple video chat service that requires no log-in, no registration and confronts you with a succession of complete strangers in one-on-one video chat. Full marks to the anonymous site creators for making Chatroulette easy, just go to the…

Five reasons Foursquare will be this year's Twitter

The location-based game Foursquare has been rocketing to success with US visits to the site jumping 50% in January according to Hitwise. We reviewed the app back when it hit London in October, but looks like it's finally taking off, and with such impressive growth figures it looks like Foursquare could be 2010's Twitter. "Our…

3D touchscreens? Why Samsung think pressure-sensitive screens are the next big thing

In an exciting move, Samsung Electro-Mechanics have just purchased a technology called Quantum Tunnelling Composite or QTC that brings third dimension to touch screens. Samsung claims that QTC will allow devices like phones to accept 3D input - by being pressure sensitive. Press hard on the scroll button and the page moves faster, softer, and…

Shiny Poll: Facebook's new homepage – are you a fan?

Kudos to Facebook for continuing to innovate. The homepage of Facebook's 350 million users has just undergone a big front-end update that forefronts what's new and makes it just that bit harder to log out (two clicks not one now). It pushes Facebook marketplace to the front, tidies apps up in a list, makes you…