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.
APP OF THE DAY: 24me is your personal productivity assistant
Since its launch early last year Clear has been our favourite to-do list application because it's so simple to use and looks bloody good too. However, all that could change now we've got our hands on 24me, an app that's admittedly a little harder to get your head around than Clear, but is able to…
WE HEART THIS: LED pins light up when jobs need to be done
We're always looking for new ways to get jobs done more efficiently and force our lazy little brains into being as productive as possible, which is why we love these LED pins, because they light up when the job they're pinning needs to be completed. Designed by Kim Sung Min, It's Time to Read Me…
Feeling lonely guys? Now you can buy a fake Facebook girlfriend
Awh it's hard to be a single guy when everyone else is having lots of sex and buying their girlfriends chocolates and kittens. But fear not, because a Brazilian company has decided to set up a dating site with a twist, the twist being the girls aren't real, they're just pretty Facebook fakes to fool…
INSTAGRAM: App reveals strong figures amidst rumours of a decline in users
Instagram has always been super secretive about revealing its stats, mainly because up until now we've always been able to guess roughly how many people are taking lame, amateur photos and putting retro filters on them. Answer: Everyone but our grans. Well that all changed when Instagram randomly made a bunch of - kinda worrying…
10 Best video editing apps for the iPhone & iPad: iMovie, Cinefy & Magisto
Back in 2011 we collected together our favourite video editing apps for the iPhone and were surprised by how few really good quality offerings were available from the iTunes app store. Fast forward nearly two years and we still have some firm favourites from the past gallery as well as some great new apps too.
Bye bye HMV and Blockbuster, online mobile sales are soaring
It might all be depressing and grim on the UK high street at the moment given the deaths of Blockbuster, HMV and Jessops, but according to recent research, online sales continue to soar thanks to the popularity of mobile and tablet devices. According to stats from IMG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, online retail sales exceeded…
HelloSign lets you sign documents without a pen, printer or scanner
The other day we were wondering whether we actually need anything but the internet and apps now, surely pens, paper, books and even other pieces of tech, like cameras, printers and scanners are getting a little redundant and antiquated, right? Well today it's pretty much been confirmed for us that we can bin everything other…
WE HEART THIS: Super simple camera concept for Muji with touch gestures
Despite the fact some pretty cool cameras were unveiled at CES last week, we're really reluctant to spend money on a new one when our smartphones and Instagram do the trick - if you're after blurry, amateur snaps that is. However, we've fallen in love with this camera concept featured on Yanko Design today based…
GOOD: Chip turns your body into a battery, just like in The Matrix
If there was a Matrix prequel we think it'd probably open with a story similar to this, that a company is currently developing a chip to use energy from your skin to power stuff. But fear not, for now it's just powering little gadgets and fitness tracking devices, no one's forcing you to get naked…
TWITTER: Judge rules using photos without permission is illegal
In one of the first cases of its kind, a judge in the US has ruled that two news organisations have infringed on the copyrights of photographer Daniel Morel, because they used photos he posted to Twitter without prior permission. Morel took a number of photographs of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti in…
