We all know that Facebook's "Other" inbox is just a bit stupid. It allows random people to get in touch with you, but then when they do it doesn't alert you, it just files the messages away and more often than not they go unnoticed for a LONG time. It would be much more beneficial…

It's a change that many of us probably wouldn't have noticed, but soon Twitter intends to shorten its already super short tweets when you add a link into them. According to the Twitter Developer blog, the micro-blogging platform will soon start bumping up its shortened URLs by a few characters, meaning avid Twitter users will…

Yahoo has been making all kinds of awesome changes to its Flickr app in recent months and today it's unveiled another new upgrade, incorporating better tagging and notification features, faster uploading and much more. Today's latest update means that users can easily save photos from their photo stream directly to their camera roll, upload their…

The tech world has been speculating about the details of Apple's iWatch device for what feels like years, but today The Verge and Apple Insider published details about one of the company's latest patents, which details a new kind of wearable device. Back in August Apple filed a patent with the US Patent & Trademark…

We've been hearing loads (and kinda seeing loads) about Google's latest Glass project over the past year or so, the wearable headset that looks like a prop straight out of a sci-fi movie, which lets you do all kinds of things just using your peepers and your voice. Well today everyone's talking about Google's latest…

A toy company called WoobleWorks has set up a Kickstarter campaign this week for its 3D printing pen, 3Doodler. The gadget is a world first and will allow users to draw creations, which are then sculpted into 3D objects at the same time (see some cool examples below). We imagine most people will begin drawing…

Here at Shiny Shiny we're big fans of apps and services that aim to make us more productive and generally just better at life, which is why we were keen to test out a new calendar app that's been getting all of our Twitter followers REALLY excited. Launched today by former designers from Foursquare, Sunrise…

Scientists are currently working on a new kind of bionic hand, which will allow amputees to actually feel what they're touching, according to The Independent. The pioneering technology will be implanted into an unnamed man later this year and could prove to be the next step in the advancement of artificial limbs, which will obviously…