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.
Will the Sony SmartBand shake up the wearable fitness market?
The Sony SmartBand SWR10 fitness tracker launched in the US this week and some industry commentators are suggesting it could blow the rest of the wearable competition out of the water. The device was first announced at CES 2014, but up until this week we've heard a relatively small amount about its specs or availability.…
Lego acknowledges girls can become scientists, not just beauticians
Lego came under fire when it launched a new range "for girls" called "Friends", which sadly (yet not at all unsurprisingly) featured pink boxes filled with scantily clad Lego females that came with accessories to allow kids to give animals beauty treatments, sing pop songs, dress up in things and very little else. Since the…
Instagram 6.0 update unveils new editing tools, filter intensity sliders
On Tuesday Instagram unveiled a whole range of updates that will completely overhaul its popular photo app, while staying true to its simple interface. The exciting changes include a filter intensity slider and a huge range of editing options that provide you with more control over your photos than ever and are likely to give…
10 Things you need to know about Apple's announcements at #WWDC: Yosemite, iOS8, Continuity
Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developer Conference with an exciting look at the future of OS X and iOS on Monday. Although rumours had been circulating about possible hardware launches (two sizes of iPhones, an iWatch and a new MacBook), the event was all about the big software announcements and here's our roundup of everything…
Cat launches world's first super tough KitKat phone in the UK
Cat, the company behind those big yellow diggers, also makes super tough smartphones, and this week has unveiled its latest handset, the B15Q. According to Cat, the B15Q is the world's first rugged smartphone running on Android's latest operating system, KitKat 4.4. It's packing a faster quad core processor than its predecessor, the B15, will…
Misfit Shine's Bloom necklace wearable accessory comes to the UK
We're big fans of wearable activity trackers here at shinyshiny, and although we felt the Misfit Shine was outperformed by the Jawbone Up 24 in our battle of the wearables, it ticks all of the boxes when it comes to style and versatility. Well, it looks like the Shine is about to become even more…
Giant Betfair octopus stranded at Oxford Circus, Twitter melt down ensued
Yep, you read that right. This morning a giant octopus was stranded right in the centre of Oxford Circus in central London. No one is quite sure why the polystyrene beast from the deep ended up stuck in the middle of the busy junction, but according to TfL it's now out of the way and…
Game of Thrones actor takes to Instagram after shocking episode airs in the UK
SPOILER ALERT Last night, Game of Thrones fans in the UK were finally able to catch up with episode eight of the latest season, The Mountain and the Viper, which caused a Twitter meltdown over in the US when it was aired a day earlier. We won't give too much away, but if you haven't…
Google Glass: Diane von Furstenberg makes the geeky wearable more stylish
In a bid to steer its Glass eyewear away from the realms of geeky wearable and into a must-have mainstream fashion accessory, Google has teamed up with designer Diane Von Fursternberg to dream up the "DVF | Made for Glass" collection. According to sources, the collection will be available from Net-A-Porter on the 23rd of…
20 best tweets about Apple's #WWDC2014 news: iOS 8, HealthKit, OS X Yosemite
This evening Apple's WWDC 2014 developers' conference kicked off, meaning there were a whole host of exciting announcements made about the tech giant's new features and operating systems. But, as usual, reading tweets about the event was probably more entertaining than watching the actual event itself, so here's our pick of the most informative, inspiring…
