Author: Becca Caddy
Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.
Fresh Air Plus: This smart toilet seat will eliminate odours from your stinky bathroom
This is a sponsored post in collaboration with Fresh Air Plus. Here at shinyshiny we come across products, apps and services everyday that aim to make our lives easier and answer some of those niggling, age-old questions, like how can I get fitter with the help of my phone? And how do I make my home…
12 Sports leggings & running tights to keep you comfy, active & stylish
[nextpage title="Next"] Whether you enjoy running, working up a sweat in the gym or taking part in some gentle pilates practice, leggings and running tights are a fitness fanatic's friends. They're more practical than jogging bottoms, more stylish than shorts and can transition seamlessly from the yoga studio to the road. Sports brands and fashion brands…
Hello Kitty isn’t a cat, she’s a British girl & 7 other lies that’ll blow your mind
Today the earth was shook to its very core when news broke that Hello Kitty (that's right, we wrote KITTY) isn't actually a cat. That's right. Hello Kitty (again, KITTY) isn't actually a cat. We'll give you a minute to process that one... According to Buzzfeed, anthropologist Christine R. Yano was curating a Hello Kitty…
shinyshiny speaks to Bangs about running motivation, fitness tech and why mentoring is so important #RunningWeek
Here at shinyshiny I get the opportunity to speak to inspiring people from the worlds of tech, design and fitness on a daily basis. But the interview today holds a very special place in my heart because it's with a blogger I've followed, admired and learned a hell of a lot from over the past few years,…
Better Together ad starts Twitter storm, spawns meme: meet #PatronisingBTLady
This week the lid was lifted on a new ad created by the team behind Better Together, a campaign dedicated to keeping Scotland as part of the UK in the upcoming referendum. (You can watch the ad for yourself here.) The ad is clearly targeting female voters, as it features a woman pondering over some…
Hyperlapse: Instagram launches new time lapse video app in the UK
Instagram has launched a brand new app built to capture high-quality videos while you're moving. Think of it as a time lapse video, but you don't have to sit pointing your phone at a river or comet shower for 72 hours. It's like awesome time-lapse in a much shorter time frame. In a post on the…
Brazilian juice company launches a wearable: meet the do bem maquina
A juice company called do bem is the first brand in Brazil to launch its own wearable, the do bem maquina. Yep, even non-tech companies are making wearables now. And you know what? It looks pretty damn good. According to PSFK, the natural juice brand teamed up with a New York-based agency called Huge to create the…
Welcome to #RunningWeek – the world of fitness tech, workout gear & interviews with inspirational women
Over the next week, the shinyshiny team will be exploring all things running, workouts and getting active. We'll help you choose the right running shoes, bras and accessories for you, explore the merging of fashion and fitness, provide you with some much-needed Pinterest and YouTube-related motivation, take a look at some of the best (and worst!)…
It’s official: US Copyright Office declares animal selfies can’t belong to humans
Remember the macaque selfie saga that's been raging for the past year or so? Well, the quick and dirty story is that a macaque stole a photographer's camera. She then took a load of selfies. They were the best selfies anyone had ever seen, so sites like Wikipedia published them. But the photographer who owned…
Belaqise: Clothing brand changes S, M, L to ‘beautiful’, ‘amazing’ and ‘fabulous
An innovative clothing brand from Holland wants to change the way we label and talk about the size of our bodies. The first step in making such a huge cultural shift? Do away with 'small', 'medium' and 'large' and replace them with 'beautiful', 'amazing' and 'fabulous'. Sounds great in theory, but will these new labels…
