Month: May 2010

Urbanears – colourful Scandinavian headphones

If you like to make a statement with your headphones you should definitely check out the urbanears range of slender colourful fashion headsets. If you prefer chunky, hard-wearing headphones, these might be a little too fragile for you, but apparently the sound is good and they do look a treat. If you've a got signature…

Shiny Poll: Do you poke anymore?

It used to be the funny thing to do on Facebook. If you didn't have anything to say to your friends, you'd just poke them, perhaps you were being ironic, perhaps you were trying to initiate a carnal relationship, perhaps you were just saying hi - whatever, the poke was always fun because it was…

Where are those iPads going? San Francisco

Apple must be delighted they underestimated the demand for the iPad but customers outside the US are pretty annoyed that it's taking so long for the gadget to cross the Atlantic. So where have all those 1million iPads gone? We know that Robert Scoble has bought three - that's hardly going to change world supply…

Blocked on Facebook: how cyber-bullies are "reporting" profiles and getting them blocked

We reported a little while ago that some people were getting unfairly blocked on Chatroulette. Users would get blocked simply because their chat partners didn't like the look of their face. It seems like that similar behviour is happening on Facebook too: Muslims in Egypt have been cyber-bullying atheist Egyptians by reporting their profiles to…

Why Limited Mobile Internet deals choke up great smartphones

One of my personal bugbears in the world of tech is limited internet deals. This is like when you get a phone or perhaps a USB modem and within your monthly contract you are only allowed a limited amount of internet data: 250mb or 500mb a month say. Hey you might say, what's the big…

Google to start selling books: Five Consequences

Google is planning to open an new eBook store that will be bigger and better stocked than Amazon's or Apple's. Called Google Editions, the tagline is "buy anywhere, read anywhere" and it will open in the summer. The Consequences: 1) More books available. Google Editions announced that they had scanned in 12 million books both…

The iCade – truly the best iPad dock, like, ever, but not real

UPDATE: WEEP - OKAY WE GOT CARRIED AWAY WITH THIS ONE. IT'S ALL AN APRIL FOOLS, BUT WE'RE JUST SAYING, IF ANYONE OUT THERE WANTS TO MAKE ONE, WE'LL REALLY LOVE IT. We know. Those shiny Jesus gadgets are still holed up in the US and don't look like they're making their way over the…

The Tory Pacman game and other random pieces of political social media

Here at Shiny Shiny we like to chew the fat and reflect on the past. Of course, by past we don't actually mean The Past - like, before television was invented, but the digital past - 2007. When Twitter was barely a thing and Facebook was largely students and iPhone had only been in shops…

Ann Summers suggest you should buy knickers after voting

A smart company knows how to jump on a bandwagon.. and being with the zeitgeist gets you attention and shows everyone that you're paying attention to what's going on outside your boardroom. But sometimes when companies get on the bandwagon, everyone else on the bandwagon is like "WTF. WTF are you doing here?". I have…