Month: April 2014
Twitter redesign means your profile looks just like Facebook
This week Twitter announced that over the next few days its profiles will be given a very Facebook-like makeover. According to a post on the official Twitter blog, our profiles will soon be getting a major redesign, which will include a larger photo, a HUGE Facebook Timeline-esque cover photo and the ability to pick your…
The best of The Gadget Show 2014: Fitbug, Garmin, Fitbit, iHealth
The Shiny Shiny team were invited to The Gadget Show Live 2014 event at the Birmingham NEC yesterday and we went along armed with a camera and a tonne of questions ready to grill the top tech companies about their latest products. Although there were no big launches, and many of the gadgets have been…
Ford announces Vignale Concept car and matching handbag in Milan
Once buying a car was simply about choosing the model that could get from 0-60 the quickest. Now it seems for many it's just as much about getting one to match your handbag! In a bid to extend its brand into the world of fashion, car maker Ford has introduced a new high end car…
REVIEW: Jawbone makes Bluetooth headsets cool with the brand new Era
When many of our readers hear of the Jawbone brand they probably think of its small Jambox speaker or the Up and new UP 24 (expect a review of this one soon) fitness trackers. But Jawbone has ventured into the world of Bluetooth, hands-free headsets before and actually started out its life with a mission…
ShinyShiny interviews Georgia LA from The Fox Problem
This is a sponsored post in conjunction with HP and The Fox Problem. Our competition with HP and The Fox Problem has just ended, ahead of a final party with The Fox Problem girls and loads of awesome music in London this evening. To celebrate the end of the latest season of The Fox Problem,…
Turns out your phone already has a heart rate sensor like the Galaxy S5's
[share title="Why not share this post with others" facebook="true" twitter="true" google_plus="true" linkedin="true" pinterest="true" reddit="true" email="true"] The new Samsung Galaxy S5 is packed full of new and very enticing features, but the one that's excited us health and fitness tech fans here at Shiny Shiny the most has to be the built-in heart rate sensor. But…
Game of Thrones was so popular it brutally slaughtered HBO Go
Fear not, UK readers! We won't give anything away about the premiere of season four, other than tell you that so many US fans tuned in to the first episode last night that they managed to crash HBO's streaming service. HBO charges its users about $20 a month to subscribe to its channel and its…
Night vision contact lenses could soon turn us all into superheroes
It may sound like a power reserved for Superman or one of the X-Men, but according to new research from engineers at the University of Michigan, night vision contact lenses may soon no longer the stuff of sci-fi movies. According to Wired, researchers Ted Norris and Zhaohui Zhong have been working on an ultra-thin infrared…
This teenage girl teaches computers to spot cancer
This week, Florida teenager Brittany Wenger is in London to speak to the Royal Society of Medicine about her artificial intelligence software, which could help doctors to diagnose breast cancer more quickly and easily, the BBC reports. The 19-year old built the prototype software after her cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer. It's a type…
