Month: January 2015
Joylent review: days 1 to 3 #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. The beginning Our Joylent arrived as a giant cardboard box full of mostly-unmarked plastic bags of powder. Yes, it looked like a shipment of drugs.…
Joylent review: 10 days of eating nutritionally-balanced powdered food for #HealthAndFitnessWeek
You might have heard of Soylent, the nutritionally-balanced, complete food for humans that's been making a bit of a stir in the US. Opinions vary from "this is the future of food" to "you've ruined everything that's good about being alive," and like everyone else, we were intrigued. So for 10 days, Editor Holly and…
Cyanogen wants to help take Android away from Google
Android has belonged to Google for a very long time, and what was once declared to be an open-source mobile operating system isn't really that open anymore. Cyanogen isn't happy about that, especially since its current state means its very reliant on Google. So the company has announced plans to do something about that. During The Information's 'Next…
It’s Apple’s fault the Nexus 6 doesn’t have a fingerprint scanner
Biometric security has started popping up in smartphones recently, most prominently in Apple devices. It's just been confirmed that a fingerprint scanner was supposed to be included in the Nexus 6, and it's all Apple's fault that it wasn't. This little piece of information have been rumoured for a while thanks to the inclusion of a…
The week in hashtags: #NoMorePage3, #SAGAwards, #SmearForSmear, #UKIPFilmTitles
The stars came out, The Sun went down, and a whole lot of other things happened on the internet this week... #NoMorePage3 It's been a big week for boobs, in every sense. When rumours starting circulating on Monday that The Sun's Page 3 had finally printed its last bare breast, there were cheers in many…
Dolfi uses ultrasonic waves to wash your clothes without a washing machine.
There are times when washing your clothes in a washing machine just isn't possible, whether the clothes have to be washed by hand or you just don't have access to a washing machine. Hand washing is a drag, not to mention time consuming, which is why you might as well use a gadget that does all…
Twitter will now let you translate tweets with Bing
The internet is a global network, and if it wasn't for built-in widgets that translated foreign languages many of us would be stuck. Twitter is the latest website to offer this, and now users can choose to translate tweets at the click of a button. Translations, like Facebook, will be provided by Bing, and gives…
10 bits of kit you need for your next home workout #HealthAndFitnessWeek
[nextpage title="Next"] Let’s face it! No matter how good your intentions are, it’s incredibly hard to get yourself out of the house and down to the gym, especially when you've had a long day at work. It’s also extremely expensive. £45 a month for something you’ll end up going to once a week, if that?…
7 ‘bad’ things that can actually be good for you #HealthandFitnessWeek
Every day brings a new health study about something else we need to avoid if we want to live to 90, and they're frequently things we used to think were OK: jogging, red meat, even VITAMINS, for goodness' sake. And who knows what else we'll be warned off in future, or whether people who eschew…
8 YouTube workouts you can almost pretend aren’t really exercise #HealthAndFitnessWeek
Sometimes fun and fitness CAN go together... In an ideal world, we'd all be bounding out of bed enthused with anticipation for a good workout every morning, right? If you're thinking 'no, in an ideal world our muscles would just exercise themselves while we slept', then you need a workout that doesn't feel like a…
