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.

SPOTIFY UPDATE: Listen to Metallica and discover more new music

Last night team Shiny Shiny went along to an exclusive Spotify event here in London to learn about what the popular music streaming service has planned after its most successful year ever with a whole load of new customers and countries under its belt. We watched a livestreamed keynote speech from Spotify's CEO and all…

FFS WORLD: Indian village decides phones make women slutty

A small village council in eastern India has decided to ban local women from using mobile phones, because they "pollute the social atmosphere" by encouraging them to have too much sex and destroying their marriages. The village council in Suderbari decided that if you use a mobile phone and have a vagina then it automatically…

STUDY: We all like to get drunk and destroy our gadgets

We have tech with us wherever we go and probably spend 80% of the day checking emails, texting, stalking, reading and generally just procrastinating, so it's no surprise that we're a nation of gadget destroyers. However, according to a recent study, it's not just that we're clumsy or careless, but messy (and most likely alcohol-fuelled)…

Instagram has a Twitter tantrum, photos now look rubbish

We know the relationship between Twitter and Instagram has been rocky for some time, but this week it looks like things have really taken a turn for the worse. According to reports, Facebook-owned hipster photo app Instagram has had a big tantrum, which has lead to it blocking Twitter from displaying its images correctly. From…

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 10 Cool gadgets & accessories for girls (over £100)

If you've got a geeky girl to buy for this year but you're struggling for present ideas then take a look at our flashy expensive list for Christmas 2012, complete with the coolest USB turntable, a luxury leather tote for laptops, a gold-plated vibrator and Nintendo's Wii U. We've divided our gift guides up this…

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 10 Cool gadgets & accessories for girls (under £50)

If you've got a geeky girl to buy for this year but you're struggling for present ideas then take a look at our list for Christmas 2012, complete with must-have accessories, a bright new fitness tracker, a teeny tiny sex toy and of course a real life (kinda) Boo the dog. We've divided our gift…

The Dandy goes digital: Forward-thinking or the sad death of the comic?

After 75 years in print, children's comic The Dandy has now gone from real life paper to a digital edition today on its anniversary. But should we all be getting excited about its bang up-to-date online transformation or sad that this really does mean the death of the comic? Developed by Leeds-based Dubit, the new…

Summly: A concise, colourful and cute news app for your iPhone

Summly first made waves in the tech world way back in 2011, but when ranting comedian and all round cool guy Stephen Fry tweeted about it last month the quirky news app became a firm favourite on many iPhones across the nation. But now the initial hype has died down is Summly really going to…

Nasty Tumblr worm hijacking blogs, declaring war on cat gifs, being racist

ERMAHGERD a nasty Tumblr worm has hijacked a number of Tumblr accounts over the past few hours, posting offensive content and stopping everyone from getting their daily fix of cat gifs. A group that goes by the name GNAA (look up what it stands for, it's offensive, NSFW and we don't wanna write it out)…