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.
The 8 stages of finishing your favourite web series (or TV box set)
The rise of online streaming services, like Netflix and Amazon Prime, means that everyone could fall victim to the addictive potential of web series. You no longer have to be a loser sat in on your own night after night force-feeding your TV DVDs from box set after box set. In fact, Netflix is an…
SnapMovie: Line launches standalone app for its Vine-like video feature
Chat and messaging app Line has been experimenting with a new integrated feature called SnapMovie, which allows its users to record quick 10 second segments of video to send to their mates. Now the Line team has announced that SnapMovie is launching as a standalone app, which is set to take on other short video…
Adidas miCoach partners with MyFitnessPal: A fitness & nutrition match made in heaven
The team behind the Adidas miCoach training platform will soon be teaming up with popular nutrition app MyFitnessPal. This new partnership will allow users to send important fitness data from Adidas' programme and tracking device through to the MFP app, providing them with more in-depth insights about how their activity levels correlate with their nutrition. It's…
10 Kitchen gadgets, tools and utensils for healthy living
[nextpage title="Next"] We all know what we have to do to live a healthier life: eat less of the bad stuff and more of the good stuff, right? Well we also all know it's much easier said than done and one of the reasons many of us tend to find healthy eating hard is that…
Apple Watch porn: Our six favourite, most stylish versions of Apple’s wearable
Yesterday Apple launched its first wearable device: Apple Watch. It's a fully-customisable, super device that allows you to send your heartbeat to your mates, answer calls, read messages, track your health and fitness activity and so much more. But you know what else makes it stand out? The fact it looks... well... kinda beautiful, right?…
Here’s why the Apple Watch could be a wearable fitness game-changer (and why it might not be)
Apple's highly-anticipated, first foray into the world of wearables certainly didn't disappoint fanboys and girls all over the globe when Tim and the team lifted the lid on the Apple Watch in Cupertino, California, yesterday The device is packing its own payment system, it allows you to send emojis, you can share your heartbeat with loved…
iPhone 6 Plus: Everything you need to know about Apple’s ‘phablet’
[nextpage title="Next"] Well, it looks like the rumours we've been passing around the web for months were spot-on. At Apple's highly-anticipated iPhone 6 launch in Cupertino, California today, Tim Cook and the Apple team launched not one but two new flagship handsets. First up there's the iPhone 6 and then there's the bonus phone: the…
Apple Watch: Apple launches its first wearable (and it looks awesome)
Well, we all had our fingers, toes and everything else crossed that Apple wouldn't just be launching the iPhone 6 tonight and we weren't disappointed. Tonight at the highly-anticipated Apple event in Cupertino, California, Apple's Tim Cook unveiled the Apple Watch. That's right, it's not the iWatch, but the Apple Watch. The wearable comes in…
iPhone 6 Launch: Apple unveils two models, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
At today's highly-anticipated Apple event in Cupertino, California, Apple's CEO Tim Cook has unveiled not one but two new models of its super popular smartphone, the iPhone. The first is called the iPhone 6 and its bigger brother is the iPhone 6 Plus. A slow-mo (or at least we think it was slow-mo, the live…
Welcome to fashion & tech week: stylish accessories, online shopping & futuristic fashion
Over the next week the shinyshiny team will be exploring the worlds of fashion and technology. We're going to be showing you the exciting ways brands are enhancing our buying experiences, rounding up some of the most stylish accessories for your tech, letting you in on our favourite online shopping secrets and taking a peek at…