Month: February 2013

10 Bright & colourful Kindle Fire, Fire HD & Paperwhite cases & accessories

We might be big fans of Apple's iPad range here at Shiny Shiny, but during a cool Amazon showcase last week we had some hands-on time with the new Kindle Fire HD tablet and needless to say we were pretty damn impressed with the online retailer's offering. Tech Digest editor Gerald Lynch wrote up his…

APP OF THE DAY: Winston finds the best news then reads it out to you

There are plenty of apps out there that collect the best of the web and the best of your social networks into one handy place, like Flipboard and Summly. However, new contender Winston is a little bit different, because not only does it gather together cool chunks of news so you don't have to bother,…

10 Coffee machines & milk frothers for the best caffeine hit

There are lots of coffee machines on the market today and we've collected together some of our favourites, whether it's because they're all singing, all dancing and can do pretty much anything with a coffee bean, cheap and cheerful or bright and good-looking for your kitchen. We've also added in a couple of milk frothers…

Memes take over Monopoly as cat replaces dumb iron

Monopoly, everyone's favourite selfish, money-grabbing board game, has had a bit of a makeover this week and has replaced the dumb, old iron thing with a brand new token, a KITTY CAT. That's right, the team at Monopoly HQ (we want to go to there) decided that the dumb, old iron thing was just too…

Twitter beefs up its mobile search with tweets, photos and users

Today Twitter announced that it's going to be making a number of changes to the way users search from their mobile phones, by serving up different types of data in results and therefore (hopefully) providing them with more relevant content. The new interface, which should be rolling out to users soon, will include all kinds…

Girl builds a rocket and sends Hello Kitty up into space

A US girl decided to become the star of her class and an internet sensation overnight by sending a Hello Kitty doll up into the stratosphere on the back of a rocket she built. Wow she's making us feel really lame about our lives right now. The 12 year old from California watched an ad…

GIPHY: A search engine for the web's greatest GIFs

Our love affair with GIFs may be waning a little, but that doesn't mean a good Family Guy or Mean Girls quote won't tickle us on a Wednesday afternoon. Today we've come across Giphy, a search engine solely for the world of the GIF. Simply type a keyword into the search bar along the top…

INSTAGRAM: You can now view your photo feed from the web

The Instagram team has slowly been adding more and more web functionality to its super popular photo app and today users are able to browse their feed directly from the internet at instagram.com. In a blog post announcing the changes, Instagram's Co-Founder, Kevin Systrom, explains that a mobile-only experience has, up until now, worked very…

Clever little pen vibrates when you make spelling mistakes

Remember the smart fork unveiled at CES that vibrated when you were a big fatty and ate too much? Well it seems tech companies are creating vibrating gadgets to make us more awesome in other areas of our lives too, like to combat all of those terrible spelling mistakes we always make. The device is…