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.

COMPETITION: Fox up Your Tech with an HP Slate 10 HD tablet

This is a sponsored post in conjunction with HP and The Fox Problem. As the final episode of The Fox Problem draws to a close, we've hooked-up with HP - powering the tech behind the show - for the chance to win your very own Slate 10 HD. To win, we want you to show…

The SmartMat is the latest gadget for your connected home

There are smart bulbs, TVs, kettles, ovens and plugs on the market, so we're hardly surprised that the SmartMat is now available to alert you of all the comings and goings inside your home. Currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, the SmartMat works with a Wi-Fi connected sensor that can detect the weight of humans and…

You can now walk and text without getting hurt

Over the weekend, Cult of Mac revealed details of an Apple patent that would make texting and walking a little safer. The idea behind the patent was that a live feed from your camera could be piped through to the background of your texts, so you can see if something dangerous, like maybe a road…

Facebook adds Groups and weird forwarding feature to Messenger

Facebook has updated its Messenger app for iOS today by adding in a Groups feature. Yep, you can add more than one person to a conversation already, but this will allow you to Group people together and spam them with emojis to your heart's content (check out the screenshot above for how this would look).…

LOLZ of the day: The @buzzfeedquizz parody Twitter account

As much as we love Buzzfeed and its abundance of quizzes, cats, lists and quizzes we love a good parody Twitter account that rips at the fabric of its existence and makes a mockery of everything it stands for even more. Enter @buzzfeedquizz, a new but absolutely hilarious Twitter account that satirises Buzzfeed's quizzes by…

The best apps for breaking bad habits (and sticking with good ones)

We all know that the beginning of the year really isn't the best time to address our bad habits. If anything a lack of alcohol/chocolate/curling up in bed in the foetal position in January is going to make us less likely to do good things than going cold turkey on everything that's nice about the…

UpTo launches calendar app for social butterflies

On the surface UpTo looks like a regular calendar app, sync it with your existing calendar and you're presented with a much slicker (and yep, not to mention prettier) way of seeing what's going on in both your personal and professional life. But UpTo is also aiming to create one huge shared calendar for everyone…

Samsung's first Smart Bulb will last a whole decade

It may have been beaten to the finish line by Philips, and more recently LG, but Samsung's first smart LED bulb has been unveiled and it's called, wait for it, the Smart Bulb. It looks like other offerings but it's actually Bluetooth-only, whereas the bulbs from LG and Philips can also hook up to your…