Although robots are now more advanced than ever, the thought of having one in your home still feels a bit strange (we blame I, Robot). However, this quirky little white rabbit called Karotz aims to be your very own little robotic personal assistant. But remember, this is less of a tidy up that mess, make…

There are plenty of stands, wall mounts and balancing accessories available to make watching TV shows, following recipes or playing games even easier with your iPad. However, most seem to be geared up for one particular scenario and only let you bend and twist a certain way before you get fed up and end up…

It seems the days of intense iPhone envy may be over now that the crazily popular photo sharing and editing app Instagram has announced its long awaited Android version. Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, said at LeWeb in Paris: "We have two people working on Android now [...] I'm excited to be able to…

Having cookery books in your home often makes it look like you're a great chef, but with a whole host of recipe apps and small portable gadgets, do we really need them anymore? A new study conducted by PC manufacturer Lenovo has found that more than a third of Brits often turn to their laptops…

Yesterday Shiny Shiny headed down to London's Trocadero arcade with our sister site Tech Digest to try out the world's first eye-controlled arcade game, Eye Asteroids. Basically you stand in front of the very normal looking retro arcade game and after a quick calibration test you shoot the asteroids that threaten to destroy your planet…

Popular iPad app and digital magazine Flipboard has been launched for the iPhone today, to provide users with lovely graphics, lots of page flipping and a mixture of current news and social media updates straight to their pockets. Flipboard is essentially just a social media and news aggregator, which sorts out all of your updates…

Back in September at Facebook's f8 developers conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced a whole host of new changes to everyone's favourite social network, including apps, different verbs other than like and oh yeah TIMELINES. So where are they Zuckerberg? Huh? For anyone that's forgotten what timelines are, they're going to be the clever little things that…