Category: Gadgets
Chromecast owners can celebrate Valentines Day with free stuff from Google
Valentines Day is nearly upon us, and that means everyone is pulling out their best deals to try and get people into the spirit of things. Google is no exception, and is offering Chromecast owners a bunch of free stuff to celebrate the day. If you have a Chromecast all you have to do is…
Corning has announced new scratch-resistant smartphone displays
We're at the point now where manufacturers have figured out that people want a phone that smashes when you drop it, but there is still the problem with scratches on the display. To combat this Corning has revealed that it is working on 'Project Phire', a new type of smartphone glass that combines the two. This…
Sky has announced a ‘next generation’ Now TV box is coming this year
We love the Now TV box here at ShinyShiny, since it makes it possible to access all your favourite online content from your TV easily and cheaply. Believe it or not the box itself is now 18 months old, and today Sky has announced that a 'next generation' model is on the way. The new box…
The Pixie Point Bluetooth beacon will make sure you never lose anything again
Whether it's their phone, wallet, keys, or even the TV remote, people are always misplacing their stuff, and trying to find it is a frantic panic until you realise what you were looking for was lying under the sofa the whole time. What if you could use the wonders of technology to stop that panic and find…
WANT: Firebox is launching the world’s first WiFi coffee machine
Hot on the heels of lazy-person favourite, the iKettle, Firebox is launching what might just be the dream product for us lackadaisical internet types: a WiFi coffee machine you control with your phone. The unimaginatively-named Smarter Coffee costs £149.99 and can: Brew 1-12 cups of coffee on demand, controlled from your smartphone or tablet Automatically grind and brew the right…
Eero’s smart router promises to solve all your Wi-Fi woes
We live in the 21st century and one of the advantages is of that is the glorious magic that is wireless tech. But things like Wi-Fi aren't without their problems, particularly when you consider that they're so much slower than wired connections. Eero's smart router plans to fix some of those problems. Eero's router combines a…
The OneBoard Pro+ is a keyboard and an Android device
Over the past month or so we've seen an awful lot of different devices with computer inside them. Devices like HDMI sticks, and even a computer mouse. But all of those devices need a keyboard to work, so why not stick the computer inside the keyboard? Before you make you snarky remark about that being…
The Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale
For tinkerers and computing enthusiasts alike, the Raspberry Pi has an incredibly useful piece of kit due to the fact that there are very few restrictions on what you can do with it. One of the restrictions has, of course, been the power of the hardware itself, but that's going to be less of a problem from…
Someone has created adblock for real life
Adverts are one of those things in life that we have to live with, because they're everywhere and they pay, or subsidise, the many services that we use. Online we can get around that with adblock software, and someone has managed to develop it for real life. It's called 'Brand Killer' and it's a custom…
The strange-looking Ultra Node antenna could connect you to 5G one day
We all know that 5G is coming, and could be here as soon as 2020, but the question on some minds will be how the infrastructure is going to adapt to allow people to connect to the next generation mobile networks. Behold, a solution in the form of Huawei's Ultra Node antenna. Huawei is currently…
