Category: Feeling good
The Nutshell pod gives you privacy at work (and makes you seem weird)
Now here’s what I call multi-tasking: not only does the Nutshell isolation pod give you time out when the world around you gets too much, but it also makes you look like a complete weirdo. (I’m guessing fans of the Ostrich pillow will be rushing to snap one up.) Designed by Eden Lew, a masters…
Caught out! Facebook can tell which of your friends are UKIP supporters
They may have just won two byelections and gained their first parliamentary seats, but there's still a certain... stigma attached to being an out-and-proud UK Independence Party (UKIP) supporter. But Facebook's all-seeing eye means that there is an easy way of discovering the truth (because Facebook is a trusted source, obviously). As Political Scrapbook has found, there's a…
Great news, cheaters! Ninety-six percent of your friends won’t tell on you
If you want to find out if your partner’s cheating, you’d better start rifling through his credit card receipts or work out the password to his phone quick smart, because you can be all but certain that his friends will never tell you. And the flip side is true, too: if you’re being unfaithful, your…
You have the chance to vote for Britain’s national bird
2015 is going to be a big year for democracy in the UK, because we finally get another chance to set things right and put our vote to good use. That's right, we get to decide which bird will step up and become our national avian mascot. Oh and apparently there's a General Election as…
Impossible is a new electric bike you can keep in your backpack
We’ve seen folding bikes before. We’ve seen electric bikes before. What we haven’t seen before is a portable electric bike that’s stylish, relatively light, and easy to carry around. Yet despite its name, as PSFK points out, the Impossible is all of those things. Or it will be, anyway. It’s currently a prototype: its inventors…
Insight – How intelligent lighting is set to change your home
Chris Price looks at some of the latest developments which are about to revolutionise your home’s lighting, including smart bulbs which can be controlled via your mobile phone and systems that can be integrated effectively with your home’s security - even provide multi-room audio! Our homes have been utterly transformed over the last 100 years.…
10 of the best Christmas jumpers: Topshop, Missguided, House of Fraser
[nextpage title="Next"] I know. I know. It’s November, and you don’t want to be thinking about Christmas just yet. But, we all know how quickly it can come round. Suddenly there’ll be a week to go, and you won’t even have bought everyone’s presents, let alone your necessary Christmas jumper. Be prepared, get in there…
Win a free download of Surgeon Simulator for iPhone or iPad
Last week, we attended the slightly gory launch of Surgeon Simulator for iPhone. Bossa Studios have kindly given us 10 codes for a free iPhone or iPad download to give away, and we're giving them to you over on Twitter. To enter, all you have to do is follow @ShinyShiny and retweet the competition tweet.…
20 things that happen when you start reviewing phones for a living
For the last few months, I've been writing ShinyShiny's phone reviews. It's a dream job, but changes your life in some weird and unpredictable ways. You get a Facebook message and a polyphonic orchestra of notification noises from multiple phones scares the living daylights out of you It was just my mum…
Who knew? Bats troll each other, too
The internet may have lead you to think that humans are the only species that try to wind others up and selfishly ruin someone else’s day, but you’d be wrong. As Smithsonian reports, Mexican free-tailed bats are the animal equivalent of every overly aggressive ALL CAPS Twitter user you’ve ever blocked. Researchers from Wake Forest…
