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.
Memes take over Monopoly as cat replaces dumb iron
Monopoly, everyone's favourite selfish, money-grabbing board game, has had a bit of a makeover this week and has replaced the dumb, old iron thing with a brand new token, a KITTY CAT. That's right, the team at Monopoly HQ (we want to go to there) decided that the dumb, old iron thing was just too…
Twitter beefs up its mobile search with tweets, photos and users
Today Twitter announced that it's going to be making a number of changes to the way users search from their mobile phones, by serving up different types of data in results and therefore (hopefully) providing them with more relevant content. The new interface, which should be rolling out to users soon, will include all kinds…
Girl builds a rocket and sends Hello Kitty up into space
A US girl decided to become the star of her class and an internet sensation overnight by sending a Hello Kitty doll up into the stratosphere on the back of a rocket she built. Wow she's making us feel really lame about our lives right now. The 12 year old from California watched an ad…
GIPHY: A search engine for the web's greatest GIFs
Our love affair with GIFs may be waning a little, but that doesn't mean a good Family Guy or Mean Girls quote won't tickle us on a Wednesday afternoon. Today we've come across Giphy, a search engine solely for the world of the GIF. Simply type a keyword into the search bar along the top…
INSTAGRAM: You can now view your photo feed from the web
The Instagram team has slowly been adding more and more web functionality to its super popular photo app and today users are able to browse their feed directly from the internet at instagram.com. In a blog post announcing the changes, Instagram's Co-Founder, Kevin Systrom, explains that a mobile-only experience has, up until now, worked very…
Clever little pen vibrates when you make spelling mistakes
Remember the smart fork unveiled at CES that vibrated when you were a big fatty and ate too much? Well it seems tech companies are creating vibrating gadgets to make us more awesome in other areas of our lives too, like to combat all of those terrible spelling mistakes we always make. The device is…
Logitech unveils Ultrathin Keyboard Case for the iPad Mini
Even though the iPad Mini was released late last year, there's been no shortage in cool cases and handy accessories to keep your teeny tiny tablet as safe, stylish and multifunctional as possible. However, our favourite iPad Mini accessory to date has to be Logitech's brand new Ultrathin Keyboard Case, a super slim, super protective…
FACEBOOK: Would Love 2 lets you date (not bang) your mates
Last week we were all exposed to the horror that was Bang With Friends, a Facebook app thing that hooked you up with mates that you want to "bang", who also want to "bang" you, because apparently the world of the internet isn't gross and sleazy enough and some people find it really hard to…
Dyson reinvents the tap to dry your hands too
Gone are the days of the engineers at Dyson HQ only making colourful vacuum cleaners, as the brand today revealed it's reinvented the way the humble tap works by adding in new technology to allow you to dry your hands from the same spot. The new Airblade Tap system follows in the footsteps of Dyson's…
Nokia to work on Graphene, world's strongest material
It sounds a bit like the plot from a graphic novel, but this week Nokia has been given a huge grant of $1.35 billion from the European Union in order to develop graphene, which is described as a "super material", because not only is it mend-bendingly thin, it's also stronger than metal. According to Mashable,…
