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.
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10 inspiring women from the world of film #InspiringWomenWeek

Women have long been represented in front of the camera, and although that representation is often skewed and wouldn't stand a chance of passing the Bechdel Test, this means there are hundreds of iconic female stars who have graced our cinema screens over the decades that I desperately wanted to cram into this list. However, even in modern…
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Welcome to #InspiringWomenWeek

Over the next week, the shinyshiny team will be writing about the women we find inspiring. These are normal women who have made household names for themselves, iconic characters who have motivated the masses and  intelligent minds that have made ground-breaking changes to their respective industries. From the most memorable female novelists of the past…
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The Olive bracelet wants you to stop stressing out

Olive is a new wearable bracelet that doesn't want to just track your steps, tell you how many fake flights of stairs you've walked up today or give you a weird arbitrary point every time you pick up the pace, it wants to analyse a range of your body's metrics in order to lower your…
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App of the day: Stop, Breathe & Think for meditation on-the-go

Yep that's right, we're writing up daily 'App of the Day' columns again here at shinyshiny, exploring our favourite iOS, Windows and Android apps. From those that track our fitness, help us to be more productive or are just a lot of fun. Keep checking back to our Gadgets & Apps page to see the…
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Our 8 favourite running shoes for Autumn/Fall 2014

[nextpage title="Next"] If you're a seasoned runner but desperately need some new kicks to improve your performance and give your image a bit of a colour-popping, neon boost as winter draws in, then today's buying guide is for you. On the other hand, if you didn't catch the running bug over summer because you were…

Instagram teams up with Herb Lester to create the ultimate insider city guides

The great thing about the Instagram community is that its dedicated, snap-happy members often provide us all with a unique insight into their hometowns or cities. From a piece of street art you'd only spot if you walked down that particular side alley to a coffee shop that's so far off the beaten track but…

Could wearable tech help us to improve our mental health? #WearablesWeek

Over the past few years we’ve watched the tech market become saturated by wearable health-tracking gadgets designed to provide us with more visibility about the way we move, what we eat and how we go about our day-to-day lives. However, many of us know that being truly healthy both inside and out requires much more…

What is Alibaba and why should we care?

So what's Alibaba? Alibaba (not to be confused with the guy from the Arabian Nights tales) is widely known as 'China's answer to eBay', but many say it's actually more like someone rolled eBay, Amazon and Google together into one massive superpower. The thing is it's got the potential to be even better AND more…