Author: Becca Caddy
Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.
Microsoft working on wearables for the blind in UK trials
Everyone from big tech giants to tiny startups are working on wearables to make the average consumer's life better - whether they're prompting us to take more steps, improve our posture or run a little bit faster. But what about those with disabilities? Well, according to rumours this week, Microsoft is stepping up to the…
First Birchbox store uses Artificial Intelligence and iPads to make beauty shopping better
It seems we've all become a little, OK, a LOT, obsessed with online shopping. There's something about the ease, the choice and the lack of 'end-it-all-now' changing room queuing dilemmas that make it so much more appealing than the real thing. But when it comes to beauty products, e-commerce often just doesn't cut it. If…
Vodafone UK launches 4G handsets: the Smart 4 Turbo and Smart 4 Power
Today Vodafone has announced that it's launching its first 4G-ready smartphones, called the Smart 4 Turbo and Smart 4 Power. Both handsets are Vodafone-branded, run on Android KitKat and enter the busy mobile market at the lower end of the spectrum, providing customers with 4G mobile broadband at an affordable price point. Obviously the 4G-ready…
Photographer mashed-up cat faces with their owners and the results are creepy
You know how they say pets look a little like their owners? Well awesome surrealist photographer Sebastian Magnani has taken that idea to a whole new level by combining a number of photographs of cats with selfies of their owners. The results? Well, take a look for yourself at the gallery below, but we think…
Apple iWatch pushed back till November due to its super advanced tech
We'd all been collectively crossing our fingers for Apple's iWatch to be launched in October, but now a top (and often accurate) analyst has suggested that production may not even begin until late November. Urgh come on already Apple! Today the tech press is full of KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo's predictions that the Apple iWatch won't…
INSIGHT – shinyshiny talks to Adidas about designing the Fit Smart, making data more meaningful and wearables for women
Today Adidas launched its brand new Fit Smart wearable, a fitness tracking device specially designed for those who take working out seriously and want real-time monitoring and all kinds of stats about their heart rate, the distance they've covered, the length of their stride, the calories they've burned, and much much more. Here at shinyshiny we were…
Will Adidas rule the wearable fitness market with its new miCoach Fit Smart tracking band?
Today Adidas launched its latest digital fitness product, the Fit Smart, a wearable activity training device built for those who take their workouts seriously. The Fit Smart can measure all kinds of metrics, including calories burned, heart rate, distance covered and stride rate, all from a durable wristband that's somewhere between a chunky watch and the…
UK follows US lead, bans uncharged gadgets from flights with even stricter rules
Earlier this week, we were all shocked to read that some US flight operators would be introducing new and VERY strict security rules about taking gadgets on flights into the States. The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) revealed that if you try to take a gadget on a flight and it isn't charged up, you may be…
George Clooney slams Daily Mail for ‘irresponsible’ and ‘dangerous’ story
The shit-stirring, female-bashing, scum of the earth tabloid, known to most of those in the UK as the Daily Fail, has come under fire yet again today by none other than George Clooney. The movie star wrote an article for USA Today about how the The Daily Mail took its 'idiotic stories' one step too far when…
Top 10 running apps for the iPhone: Nike+ Running, Endomondo and RunKeeper
Now that the nights are a little lighter and the air is a little warmer, there's no excuse not to ditch your spin class, gym session and Netflix addiction in favour of a run. Of course, getting into the habit of putting on your kit, pounding the pavement and dodging cyclists can be daunting to…
