We love wearables here at shinyshiny, but they’re not all about tracking your fitness or giving you supersonic hearing. In future, they could help hospital patients to receive personalised care. The National Taiwan University in Taipei is now working on a project called Bioscope, developing bandages that can monitor patients’ temperature, heart rate, movement, and…

We’re not saying that a trip to [insert fast food restaurant of your choice] is good for you. But surprisingly, beef isn’t the enemy of heart health it’s often been painted as. In fact, new research by nutritional scientists shows that eating beef can actually help reduce risk factors for heart disease. The key is…

It may all be a very distant memory for many of us now but once upon a time, Apple and the Beatles didn't see eye to eye, and went through a number of court battles over a great many years in order to settle the trademark dispute. Since then it has all simmered down and…

Project Zero from Google is a super hacker group formed for your safety from online attacks the world through, and it now appears they are looking at the top of the spectrum and have hired George Hotz AKA Geohot. If you don't know Geohot then let me fill you in on everything he has done…

We reported recently on Amazon's Prime service now shipping EU to UK in a mere 2 days, and, in the wake of that, Amazon is launching its instant video service to Android. There's been a public outcry for a while now that Amazon hasn't shared the love and brought a native app to Android, and it…

You know how people joke about needing an extra set of hands to get everything done? Well, that’s not on the horizon quite yet, but researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have just invented a pair of wearable robotic fingers. Graduate student Faye Wu unveiled details of the device this week at the…

If, like me, you're due an upgrade on your phone, you'll probably be waiting to see what Apple brings to the table with its eagerly anticipated iPhone 6 model. Apple is due to launch a 4.7 and 5.5 inch iPhone in September, alongside the iWatch. Foxconn, Apple's manufacturing giant is said to have hired 100,000 extra staff…

With what looks like a giant muddy crop circle we bring you new images of Apple's long awaited Spaceship HQ. This image was taken by KCBS news and traffic reporter Ron Cervi and reported by Macrumors. Apparently, Cervi himself has been monitoring the works on the campus for the last few months and has taken several aerial…

In more recent years we have seen a lot of change in hardware in many devices, one of the more notable changes was the move with the iPhone 5 from Apple to go from it’s 30 pin iPhone charge adaptor to a new proprietary ‘lightning cable’. There was a massive uproar at the time due…