The Spectre 13 x360 is a brand new HP laptop/tablet hybrid

Dedicated tablets seem to be dying a death these days, but laptop/tablet hybrids really seem to be coming into their own. Now, just weeks after the waves of announcements at CES, a brand new one has started popping up around the web. Meet the HP Spectre 13 x360. At first glance it looks remarkably like…

10 best workout clothes to buy on ASOS #HealthandFitnessWeek

[nextpage title="Next"] Avid readers of ShinyShiny will be aware that we usually find you our 10 favourites from ASOS's 'New In', but, seeing as we're bringing you Health and Fitness Week, this week, we've found you our 10 favourite items on ASOS to wear to the gym, running, dancing, or any other exercise you fancy…

We could get safer, thinner batteries made with layers of Kevlar

There's a lot of work being done with batteries at the moment, particularly with making them last a lot longer. But there are other factors that matter: Safety and, as any Apple exec will likely tell you, thickness. The answer to both of those could lie with Kevlar. A team at the University of Michigan…

Facebook has removed Reclaim Yourself, an app that watermarks your photos

Any photos you upload onto a social network technically become their property, meaning the photos can be sold to advertisers, for marketing purposes, and so on. Reclaim Yourself was an app fighting back against that on Facebook, and now it's gone. Released last December, Reclaim Yourself was a Facebook app that added watermarks to your…
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7 great yoga apps to make your workout more flexible #HealthAndFitnessWeek

Whether you're a nervous beginner who wants to find their feet before trying their hand in public, or a devoted yogi who wants to cram a little more omm into their daily routine, yoga apps are a great way to supplement real-life classes. Some are free and easy, some have bells-and-whistles you never even knew…

Joylent review: days 4 to 6 #HealthAndFitnessWeek

Shiny's Holly and Sadie are doing 10 days on Joylent, the EU equivalent of Soylent, which is a powdered complete food for humans. Find out more about the project here, and read Holly and Sadie's write-ups of days 1 to 3 here. Holly - day 4 After a disastrous day yesterday (I ended up eating…

Asus wants its next smartwatch to have a seven day battery life

Asus's Zenwatch many have only just been released, but Asus Chairman Jonney Shih has expressed his dissatisfaction with the watch's design. He wants the company's next smartwatch to be a big improvement, and has already laid out goals he wants to achieve. Speaking at Asus's end of 2014 party, Shih said that there is a lot…
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Are young people sick of Facebook and broadcasting their lives online?

This is a sponsored post written in collaboration with Veeemotion.  Rewind to about five years ago and Facebook was (IMO at least) in its heyday. Everyone who was anyone was on it, teens and 20-somethings were obsessively uploading photos, updating all of their friends about the minutiae of their lives and frantically 'friending' everyone they came…

eSight glasses helped a blind woman see her newborn son

Kathy Beitz has been legally blind since she was a child, and while she has managed to live her life to the fullest she didn't feel it was right that she wouldn't be able to see her newborn baby. Thankfully she was lent a pair of eSight glasses that let her see that priceless moment.…

The Razer Nabu X is now on sale

Despite the fact that it was only announced a couple of weeks ago at CES, Razer's budget fitness tracker, the Nabu X, is now on sale for £61 (£45 plus shipping). For those of you who didn't catch the original announcement, the Nabu X is a minimalist version of the original Nabu fitness tracker that…