Month: August 2014
Apple rumours: Larger battery capacity, reversible USB, ‘iPhone 6L’
Those Apple rumours just keep coming, especially coming up to the iPhone 6′s rumoured launch window, and keeping up with them all is proving to be a difficult task. To keep you up to speed, here is today’s round-up of the biggest Apple rumours and news. 1. The new lightning cables could be reversible at…
A new implant makes it easier to sleep
A small new implantable device is providing an alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). This condition causes people to stop breathing for short periods during the night, and as well as causing daytime sleepiness, has been linked to heart disease and lower life expectancy. The Inspire has a sensor to track breathing and a…
10 Ways to make your Instagram photos more awesome
We've all been taking photos of mundane things, squeezing them into awkward square frames and furiously filtering them for a good few years now. So, we don't blame you for getting a bit bored of the same stuff (and by stuff we mean cats, hashtags, burgers you definitely didn't eat and of course a healthy dose…
Bacteria could treat cancer
A form of bacteria that causes infections could provide a new treatment option for cancer. As Gizmodo reports, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, once Clostridium novyi has been modified to remove a gene that can be toxic, it can be injected into a tumour. There, it makes…
Harvard’s created a miniature robot army (but don’t panic)
Computer scientists at Harvard University have assembled an army of robots that can act independently and work together. But we probably don’t need to worry about them invading us (yet) because each one is only around the size of a coin. There are 1024 of them, they’re powered by two small, vibrating motors apiece, and…
Waterproof gadgets put to the test: Misfit Shine, Braven speaker, Ricoh camera, Proporta Beachbuoy
As we well know here at shinyshiny, there's a whole world of mind-blowing new gadgets out there, and we're sometimes lucky enough to try them out. After #swimmingweek over at Brandish, it seemed only fitting to test out some waterproof products here: whether it was in the depths of the local pool, splashing in the sea or a brief dip…
10 annoying photo trends that need to be stopped, including ring selfies and yoga posers #PhotoWeek
There's no shame in being an amateur photographer: smartphone cameras are so much better than they used to be, it would be stupid to waste them. But as much as I enjoy scrolling through the photos of my closest online acquaintances, or seeing what our oversharing-est celebs are up to on Instagram, there are some…
10 places you should photograph at least once #PhotoWeek [part two]: The Great Wall of China, Christ the Redeemer, Machu Pichu
6. The Great Wall of China Image credit Severin.stalder via Wikimedia Commons Chances are you won't have the same reaction to the Great Wall as Karl Pilkington, who wasn't that impressed by it, and is another of the greatest pieces of structural engineering alongside the pyramids. Designed to quell invasion and spanning much of China's northern…
10 places you should photograph at least once #PhotoWeek: Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Tower of Pisa
Yesterday we had a list of 10 places in the UK that you should photograph at least once, and it got us thinking 'What else should people be photographing in their lifetimes?' With that in mind, we decided to list ten places across the planet that everyone should visit and immortalise on camera. 1. Eiffel…
Could coffee shop chatter charge our phones?
First it was dew, then sweat, now there’s a new potential way to charge our gadgets that thankfully keeps both user and device dry: sound. A team made up of scientists from Queen Mary University of London and researchers from Nokia has put together a prototype that can charge phones by converting ambient noise into…
