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.
North Korea doesn’t like James Franco movie about killing Kim Jong-un
Everyone's favourite Instagram scumbag, James Franco, and funny man Seth Rogen have teamed up for a new movie called The Interview. It looks funny, its new trailer is generating a lot of Twitter chatter this week, but there's just one problem: it's all about assassinating Kim Jong-un. As you can imagine, this particular plot line…
Festival round-up: 10 Gadgets, apps and useful kit for summer fun
With Glastonbury next weekend, which we're gutted to be missing out on, festival season is well under way. While the music and atmosphere at festivals is always incredible, there are downsides to not washing and sleeping in a tent for four or five days, so we've found the best gadgets to help you battle nature…
Yo: Everything you need to know about this ridiculous new app
We come across our fair share of pointless and silly apps that'll never catch on every day, but Yo has to take the biscuit. It's an app that's been making huge waves on Twitter and amongst tech, media and social nerd communities over the past few days, but all it actually does is say "Yo".…
Apple iWatch will come in different sizes and have ten tracking sensors
Apple's iWatch is rumoured to be launched in October and this week WSJ has revealed some pretty interesting details about the highly-anticipated new wearable. According to WSJ's source, the Apple iWatch will be available in a range of different models and sizes. This is music to our ears here at shinyshiny because wearables are so…
Health and fitness apps are growing faster than all the others, according to new stats
As apps get smarter, quicker and more useful, it's no surprise the market is booming. However, brand new stats from Flurry Analytics prove that although the overall market is growing, the health & fitness app category is accelerating faster than any. A whole 87% faster, to be exact. According to detailed analysis from the team…
8 Rabbits that wouldn’t take any of Jeanette Winterson’s sh*t
Today, award-winning author and cute things serial killer the brains behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit caused a Twitter storm by going all Fatal Attraction on us and tweeting a pretty gratuitous shot of a skinned rabbit she was about to cook. Well, if we're being pedantic here it was kinda half in and half…
Here’s what the 250 new emojis will look like and how Unicode thinks you should use them
Yesterday we shared some exciting news with you, news that soon our social media and messaging lives will experience a massive evolution with the introduction of 250 brand news emojis. After Unicode's official announcement that it'll soon be adding so many more colourful little icons to our chatting, flirting and passive aggressive messaging repertoire, we…
Could Wiko challenge Apple and Samsung in the smartphone game?
Yep, that's right. There's a huge tech giant right under our noses called Wiko that's set to take over the smartphone market and none of us has ever heard of it. The little-known smartphone maker is based in France. It already has a few handsets on the market, but now industry insiders believe its cheaper…
250 new emojis are on their way to your phone: middle finger, Vulcan salute, spider
If you're one of those people who prefers to ditch actual words in favour of emojis to tell someone you love them, will be with them shortly or think they're a smiling poop, then today is your lucky day. Unicode, the guys behind those magical little images, are introducing 250 new emojis over the next…
WedMD app launches Healthy Target to track your data and wearable activity
Just weeks after the announcement of Apple's all-singing, all-dancing health and fitness tracking platform, HealthKit, popular diagnosis app WebMD has launched Healthy Target, a new programme that works with all kinds of third party apps and wearable devices to pull your data together into one central hub. Launched this week, Healthy Target will work with…
