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.
Google Camera app for Android KitKat has a cool Lens Blur feature
Google's new camera app for Android devices running on the Kit Kat operating system, which is unsurprisingly called Google Camera, is available today. According to a post on Google's Research Blog, the best thing about the new app is its cool new Lens Blur feature. The Lens Blur mode will allow users to take a…
Top 10 apps for the perfect selfie: Facetune, More Beaute, CameraBag
As self-obsessed, vain and narcissistic millennials we have no excuses when it comes to producing sub-standard selfies. Gone are the days of holding up a blurry camera phone and giving it your best cheesy grin, there are all kinds of different apps available now to crop out your laundry hanging in the background, blur out…
5 Google Glass alternatives: GlassUp, LaForge Acis, WeOn Glasses
For one day only this week anyone (well, anyone in the US with cash to burn) could get their hands on a pair of Google Glass. However, with such a small window to buy them, a large price tag and a lot of criticism about how they look, we bet a lot of early adopters…
Apple to add "kill switch" to iPhones from July 2015
Apple has entered into a voluntary agreement that means it may add a new anti-theft "kill switch" to its iPhones from next year, meaning if anyone steals your handset you can wipe everything off it unless it's returned later. Cult of Mac reports that Google, HTC, Motorola, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung and Apple all agreed to…
This insole could make you a much better athlete
The OpenGo Science is a super-thin insole that slips unnoticed into the shoes of athletes, monitoring the way they use their feet and serving up rich data about how they workout. Developed by German-based Moticon, this smart insole is packed with sensors and can wirelessly transmit accurate readings about the temperature of the foot, as…
Loop is a modular, smart TV tailored to you and your home
We've heard plenty about modular phones, like Google's Project Ara, but what about modular TVs? The world of the smart TV is changing so quickly that Loop decided to create a system to enable users to easily upgrade and customise their home entertainment systems themselves. On their Indiegogo page, the team behind Loop explain that…
Can we take Imogen Heap and her magical, musical Mi.Mu gloves seriously?
Back in 2012, musician Imogen Heap dressed up like something from Star Trek and showed a magical glove to the world at a number of different events hosted by TED and Wired, which allowed her to make music using gestures, movements and sci-fi costumes. Fast-forward to 2014 and the state-of-the-art wearable tech device, called the…
Jawbone Up24 Review: Stylish, comfortable and wireless activity tracking
So what's a Jawbone Up 24? Jawbone is a company that creates all kinds of cool tech products. Earlier in the week, we wrote about its new bluetooth headset, the Era, and chances are you'll recognise its colourful little Jambox speakers too. But Jawbone has also been one of the first companies to really get…
Samsung unveils Galaxy Ace Style, a budget phone for social teens
This week Samsung launched a low-end handset called the Galaxy Ace Style. The curvy, affordable device is designed for young social media addicts and looks set to compete directly with Motorola's Moto G. Powered by Google's Android 4.4 KitKat, it features a 1.2GHz dual core processor for seamless multi-tasking and fast app responses. It also…
This mirror is designed to take the perfect selfie
It's hard to escape the word "selfie" at the moment now everyone from Barack Obama to your gran are taking them, but now iStrategy Labs want to turn the selfie into more of a tech-powered art and less of a lame social media trend. The team have developed the S.E.L.F.I.E (that's Self Enhancing Live Feed…
