Month: January 2012
CES 2012 – goes mad for health and wellness gadgets
One of the hottest trends at this year's CES is health and wellness gadgets. Largely created by smaller companies these range from souped up pedometers that connect to iPhones right through to a smart suit that logs your every movement. Here's our favourites so far The smart suit for athletes and Parkinson's sufferers STMicroelectronics NV…
CES 2012: Shiny Shiny goes to Las Vegas!
Hello Shiny Shiny readers, sorry it's been a bit quiet over here, but there's a good excuse. I promise. On Sunday I travelled to Las Vegas for the annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show), a massive trade event with lots of new product announcements, hands-on time with the latest gadgets, keynote speeches from big names in…
Review: Philips HF3485 wake-up light (between £84.99 and £132.77)
Getting up at this time of year is tough - at least if you live in the UK or northern Europe. In London it doesn't get light until around 7.30am, which isn't great if your boss likes you to work in the mornings or you have to get out to walk the dog before he…
iPieces lets you play board games on your iPad
If you're not sick of board games after playing Monopoly thousands of times with your younger relatives over Christmas, then you might be interested in iPieces, a quirky way to play classic games on your iPad. Created by Jumbo Games, iPieces cleverly utilises the iPad's sensitive touchscreen to let you play some of the most…
Is this the cleverest iPad case / stand / sleeve you've ever seen?
There have been so many new tablet stands, cases, covers, sleeves, lights, bags and all kinds of other random bits and pieces launched over the past year that nothing really blows us away that much anymore when it comes to tablet accessories. However, this bright new iPad and Galaxy Tab 1.2 case may just be…
Instagram photos are now bigger and better on Facebook
We've always been able to share our Instagram snaps through to our Facebook friends once we've taken them, edited them and added a caption to them. But according to the Instagram blog, from today users will now notice much better integration with the social network, including a dedicated photo album and bigger images. Before, Facebook…
Half of Brits don't know how to work their tech products
Everyone in your office may be boasting about the latest shiny gadgets that they received over Christmas, but according to a recent study more than half of Brits admit to not being able to properly work the most basic of home technology products. The research, carried out by online printer cartridge retailer Cartridgesave.co.uk, found that…
Facebook Actions: Read, Listen and Watch coming soon
If you cast your mind back to last September, you'll remember that at Facebook's f8 developers conference the social network first revealed its new timeline, the annoying news ticker and finally actions. Yep, we forgot about those too. Actions (or verbs as some called them) are set to become bigger than the Facebook "Like", but…
CES 2012: Lenovo announces new ultrabook and hybrid computers early
Ultrabooks are set to be the hottest gadgets at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas next week. All of the top PC manufacturers are rumoured to be launching super thin, super light devices, but this week Lenovo announced its two new PCs a little earlier than the rest. First up is the ThinkPad…
Facebook takes over even more of your life with Moo business cards
Quirky business card company MOO.com has teamed up with everyone's favourite social network to create a new kind of business card, which aims to bring together our online profiles and our offline networking habits, as well as celebrate the controversial launch of the new Facebook timeline. The cards can be designed and customised by each…
