Fancy living in a Star Trek-themed house? You can now, as there's one on the market! Marc Bell, former CEO of FriendFinder is selling his $35 million mansion, complete with an accurate recreation of the bridge in the Starship Enterprise. As well as a pool, basketball court and massive dining room, the home in Boca…

We've seen plenty of wearable gadgets that keep an eye on your daily activity, vital stats and even stress levels, but with Darma, a smart cushion, you only need to sit on it to find out more about your body throughout the day. The Darma cushion is only 1mm thin and detects tiny movements in…

Do you ever find yourself getting annoyed at your home appliances and start calmly talking to them to try getting them to work properly? Thanks to LG, you can now actually communicate with your fridge, washing machine, microwave and oven with a new HomeChat service. Yes, this does sound like a bizarre idea, but, hold…

As a late 80's baby I'm finding it harder and harder to remember what life was like before Netflix, cloud storage and teeny tiny gadgets that get lost in my pockets. However, this animated photo series called "Relics of Technology" by Jim Golden brings back some very fond early memories and has left me feeling…

Last week the ShinyShiny team were invited into what can only be described as a crafting heaven, a Pinterest-lover's paradise, a DIY-nut's dream, you get the picture. At the top of the Millbank Tower in London, the team behind Cricut had put on a particularly eye-pleasing event in order to showcase their latest product, the…

Fear not, UK readers! We won't give anything away about the premiere of season four, other than tell you that so many US fans tuned in to the first episode last night that they managed to crash HBO's streaming service. HBO charges its users about $20 a month to subscribe to its channel and its…

Amazon has unveiled its play for your front room at a press conference today with a set top box that plugs into your TV and runs an open Android OS, called Fire TV. The device is a little black box, which looks similar to Apple TV, and allows users to stream more than 200,000 TV…

Any good GoT fan will know that the fourth season of the hit TV saga airs this weekend and to celebrate HBO has launched an interactive online guide designed to get us all up-to-date with what's been happening in Westeros (and not to mention even further afield). The site over at viewers-guide.hbo.com allows you to…

There are smart bulbs, TVs, kettles, ovens and plugs on the market, so we're hardly surprised that the SmartMat is now available to alert you of all the comings and goings inside your home. Currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, the SmartMat works with a Wi-Fi connected sensor that can detect the weight of humans and…

It may have been beaten to the finish line by Philips, and more recently LG, but Samsung's first smart LED bulb has been unveiled and it's called, wait for it, the Smart Bulb. It looks like other offerings but it's actually Bluetooth-only, whereas the bulbs from LG and Philips can also hook up to your…