Amazon reveals new Kindle Fire and Paperwhite Kindle in US TV ad

Last night an Amazon ad aired in the US featuring a Kindle with a blacklight, which looks a lot like the new Paperwhite device that we've seen leaked images of over the past few weeks. At the end of last month a picture of the Paperwhite made its way onto The Verge, looking very much…

INFOGRAPHIC: The Internet Map makes the web look like space

It's been a while since we got excited about an infographic, they're just all so dull and "so what" now, right? But today we stumbled across The Internet Map, a kind of a dynamic online map, which shows you websites in relation to one another. Think of it as a much more sensible We Feel…

LED glasses could allow deaf people to "see" sounds

When we're out and about many of us who have no problem with our hearing take for granted just how many sounds we hear throughout the day (even when we're on our own) and what a big affect they have on our experience of the world around us and our own personal safety. Researchers at…

Nokia announces Lumia 920 and 820 Windows Phone 8 smartphones

Today Nokia announced the first two handsets from its Windows Phone 8 range, the Nokia Lumia 920 with some great photography and navigation features and the Nokia Lumia 820, a mid-range option with a customisable exterior. Nokia Lumia 920 The Finnish company's flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone is packing a 1.5GHz Dual-Core Snapdragon S4 processor…

Take This Lollipop guy creates interactive Linkin Park video

Remember the super creepy Take This Lollipop Facebook viral video, which made you think some crazy stalker was on the way round to your house to kill you or eat you? Uh it makes us shudder just to think about it. Well now the guy behind it, Jason Zada, has teamed up with Linkin Park…

Apple: Will the new phone be called the iPhone 5?

You can pretty much guarantee that a new iPhone only has to have been released for a few weeks before fans, bloggers and tech journos start talking about what the next device will have to offer. We'll be bringing you a jam-packed rumour round-up later today, but in the meantime let's talk about what the…

Is this the best use of Augmented Reality you've ever seen?

Once upon a time Augmented Reality tech was interesting, exciting and ground-breaking but now you'll find it everywhere, like in run-of-the-mill magazines and even on the side of cereal boxes. However, it's about to get much cooler (well among sci-fi geeks at least) because we think we may have found the best use of AR…

VIDEO: Tech Digest gets hands-on with Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Shiny Shiny's sister site Tech Digest headed over to IFA 2012 in Berlin to find out the latest from the biggest names in tech... It's back, and even bigger than before! Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 handset measures up at a whopping 5.5-inches in a widescreen 16:9 ratio, complete with processor improvements and a more responsive…

Irrive lets you create a social scrapbook of trips and events

We all know that there are hundreds of ways to share important events, holidays and trips with our friends and family, whether it's constant updates on Twitter or some dreamy photos over on Instagram. However, this means that often everything has been fragmented across multiple platforms and we don't have a big, accurate picture of…

John McClane vs. Apple: Bruce Willis wants to own his iTunes music

Not content with fighting all kinds of big bad guys over the years, Bruce Willis has now set his sights on Apple. In a crazy turn of events that could only ever occur over in Hollywood, the actor is considering legal action against Apple over rights to his iTunes music collection. The action star has…