We come across our fair share of pointless and silly apps that'll never catch on every day, but Yo has to take the biscuit. It's an app that's been making huge waves on Twitter and amongst tech, media and social nerd communities over the past few days, but all it actually does is say "Yo".…

Apple's iWatch is rumoured to be launched in October and this week WSJ has revealed some pretty interesting details about the highly-anticipated new wearable. According to WSJ's source, the Apple iWatch will be available in a range of different models and sizes. This is music to our ears here at shinyshiny because wearables are so…

Today, award-winning author and cute things serial killer the brains behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit caused a Twitter storm by going all Fatal Attraction on us and tweeting a pretty gratuitous shot of a skinned rabbit she was about to cook. Well, if we're being pedantic here it was kinda half in and half…

We could all do with an extra £100 under our belts, couldn't we? So, we're excited for online treasure hunt Hidden Cash to come to London this weekend. If you haven't heard of Hidden Cash before, it uses Twitter to post clues as to the whereabouts of a number of envelopes containing £100, and has…

Yesterday we shared some exciting news with you, news that soon our social media and messaging lives will experience a massive evolution with the introduction of 250 brand news emojis. After Unicode's official announcement that it'll soon be adding so many more colourful little icons to our chatting, flirting and passive aggressive messaging repertoire, we…

If you're one of those people who prefers to ditch actual words in favour of emojis to tell someone you love them, will be with them shortly or think they're a smiling poop, then today is your lucky day. Unicode, the guys behind those magical little images, are introducing 250 new emojis over the next…

Around 800 billion photos will be taken in 2014 alone, with over 200,000 uploaded to Facebook every single minute, but if you're one of the people guilty of taking pictures constantly throughout the day, you could actually be damaging your memory by doing so. According to research by psychologist Linda Henkel at Fairfield University, our 'camera-ready'…

Goal-line technology (GLT) was used at the World Cup for the first time yesterday, but instead of making things clearer, it only caused confusion. Karim Benzema's shot hit the inside of the goalpost before bouncing off goalkeeper Noel Valladares and becoming the second goal of France’s 3-0 victory over Honduras. But replay of the shot…

A fake Father's Day Facebook post from "Ryan Gosling" detailing how he adopted an orphaned baby for a year has attracted Likes from almost one million users, and we're ashamed to say we were also fooled. In our defence, it's Ryan Gosling. The story provoked reactions from women (and men) all over the world, exclaiming things like…

For some people, editing Wikipedia is a vocation: something they feel called to do to make sure anyone with access to an internet connection has free, unbiased, accurate information at their fingertips. For others, it’s a way to mess with people – either for a lark or to be mean. And of course, it’s also…