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.
Moto 360: New photos show smartwatch’s heart rate sensor and charging dock
Motorola has been releasing images and even a swoon-worthy video of its new Moto 360 smart watch over the past few months, but today tech blog Mister Gadget has published a bunch of new hands-on photos that are much more realistic and show-off some features we've been dying to take a closer look at. First…
Wikipedia and the Macaque selfie saga: Who REALLY owns the right to our images?
See update from 07/08/2014 below. Remember the Disney movie-like story of the macaque who stole a camera and decided to go ahead and take a bunch of selfies? Well, who knew that this beautiful tale of primate posing would cause such an uproar. British photographer David Slater, who owns the camera the cheeky monkey (geddit?)…
9 Situations when it’s totally not OK to take a selfie: burning stuff, plane crash & jail
A huge controversy stirred up the media and Twitter masses earlier this week when Louisa Foley's social media faux pas, which we'll be referring to as 'the burning bikini selfie', went viral. But social media uproar aside, it's got everyone wondering: When is it totally OK to take a selfie? And when is it totally…
Huge LG G3 Stylus ‘phablet’ leaks in new video
Today LG has launched a quirky new YouTube ad all about what the new LG G3 Beat handset can do, and the brand showcases all of its awesome features through a fun love story. However, it's not this refreshing approaching to advertising a phone that's got everyone talking about the ad today, but the fact…
Apple’s new iPhone ad is amazing, aspirational & (let’s face it) a bit ridiculous
Apple has created a new ad for the iPhone called 'Dreams' and it's packed with scenarios of people using iPhones and they're all nothing short of absolutely flippin' amazing. (Check out the ad above for yourself if you don't believe us.) Dedicated Apple fans use the handset to measure windspeed on a cliff top, translate urgent…
This Microsoft smartwatch concept is packed with a circular face, Cortana & plenty of style
Ever since we first clapped our eyes on the beautiful Moto 360 smartwatch from Motorola no other wearable has compared in terms of looks and, vitally, wearability (OK, admittedly this HP collaboration came rather close), which is why we were excited to see this Microsoft concept that hints at a circular-faced, streamlined design for the…
Cash on Tap: Will you start paying with your EE phone to travel around London and leave your Oyster card at home?
From today EE customers living in London can use their phones to pay for bus travel - just tap your handset onto the Oyster card reader and away you whizz! (Assuming you're not stuck in a traffic jam after 30 seconds of movement, which most London buses are.) According to The Next Web, any EE…
Garmin Vivofit Review: A fitness tracker & retro-style watch that doesn’t need charging
So what's a Garmin Vivofit? Well, Garmin began producing wristbands for serious runners with built-in GPS tracking years before this whole wearables trend really kicked off (take a look at the awesome Forerunner range here), but it's only in the past year the brand has turned its attention from die-hard fitness fans to more regular consumers…
Let’s all swoon over HP’s new luxury smartwatch
If you thought the Moto 360 was a work of wearable beauty, then check out this new smartwatch from a collaboration between HP and designer Michael Bastian. Pretty good-looking for a gadget, right? Fashionista reports that the smartwatch came about after HP approached online retailer Gilt about the possibility of creating a luxury timepiece with…
Samsung’s clever colour-changing art installation adapts to the weather
Have you ever heard of synesthesia? It's a complex 'neurological phenomenon' (thanks Wikipedia!) that ties one sensory experience to another. So for example, some synesthetes might link textures to days or colours to emotions. The latter may sound familiar even to those who don't usually experience synesthesia (I always associate happiness with a sparkly blue!)…
