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Foursquare partners up with more big media brands: Debenhams, Domino's Pizza, Zagat and Warner Bros

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:34:27 GMT

A few more reasons why FourSquare will be this year's Twitter: it's just signed a couple of deals with some serious media brandnames. Discussing the potential of the site yesterday, we mentioned the location-based social game's partnership with Bravo TV...

Things you can try on online: glasses and eye-makeup

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:46:53 GMT

The spectacle industry has taken to augmented reality like a duck to water. They have cottoned to the fact that a little AR camera-work helps replicate the vital stage of letting people try on glasses. Silhouette, the makers of rimless...

Foursquare partners up with more big media brands: Zagat and Warner Bros

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:12:22 GMT

Foursquare partners up with big media brands

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:56:34 GMT

Shiny Valentine's Giveaway: Philips Sensual massager

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:34:52 GMT

As Valentine's Day approaches and our thoughts turn to warm sensual things, we have the good fortune to offer a ShinyShiny reader one particular warm sensual thing - not a hug I'm afraid, but a warm sensual massager, courtesy...

Say I love you with a virtual animal, Pet Society do Valentine's day..

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:58:33 GMT

If flirting on Facebook is easier than flirting in person, surely flirting via cuddly animals on a Facebook app should be easiest of all - no? That's what Pet Society are claiming anyway as we face the final few days...

SD card reader for iPhone: an accessory with smart software and a bunch of extra storage

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:10:57 GMT

iPhones and iPod Touches don't have SD memory slots and it gets annoying sometimes, it's hard to fit pictures, vidoes and music on 16gb. But a hardware makers zoomMediaPlus have just created an iPhone accessory - the zoomlt - that...

AA do a Best of Britain iPhone app

Anna Leach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:35:50 GMT

It won't pick you up from the side of the road and lovingly restore your pooped car engine, but the British Automobile Association (AA) have released an iPhone app. Focussing more on the guidebook side of the business rather than...

Three fashion pieces inspired by Google...

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:39:00 GMT

If Google made t-shirts, is this what they'd look like? Well they might do, three fashion pieces inspired by Google are currently on limited sale in the the Google store. The pieces are by young designers who are finalists in...

Shiny Valentine's Giveaway: Phillips Sensual massager

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:14:37 GMT

Canon launches EOS 550D - top range consumer digital SLR

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:10:30 GMT

Canon has just released its most advanced consumer digital SLR camera to date. If you are a keen amateur professional, this is probably the best bit of kit you can get your hands on right now. The EOS 550D...

Canon's sleek new IXUS 130 and 105 cameras, activate with a wink

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:04:50 GMT

Glimmering in metallic candy colours, Canon have released a few new additions to their IXUS range of small sleek user-friendly cameras. The IXUS 130 and 105 have some fun features thrown into their slender colourful cases: Both models feature...

Chatroulette: video-chat with randoms on scary but addictive new site

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:28:54 GMT

Everybody's favourite new NSFW video chat website seems to be Chatroulette. Like Skype gone bad, it's a simple video chat service that requires no log-in, no registration and confronts you with a succession of complete strangers in one-on-one video chat....

Five reasons Foursquare will be this year's Twitter

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:53:28 GMT

The location-based game Foursquare has been rocketing to success with US visits to the site jumping 50% in January according to Hitwise. We reviewed the app back when it hit London in October, but looks like it's finally taking off,...

Shiny Poll: Facebook's new homepage - are you a fan?

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:02:04 GMT

Kudos to Facebook for continuing to innovate. The homepage of Facebook's 350 million users has just undergone a big front-end update that forefronts what's new and makes it just that bit harder to log out (two clicks not one now)....

3D touchscreens? Why Samsung think pressure-sensitive screens are the next big thing

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:46:30 GMT

In an exciting move, Samsung Electro-Mechanics have just purchased a technology called Quantum Tunnelling Composite or QTC that brings third dimension to touch screens. Samsung claims that QTC will allow devices like phones to accept 3D input - by...

Facebook's new homepage - are you a fan?

Anna Leach — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:43:49 GMT

Nokia maps app - Ovi Maps gets a million downloads in a week

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:09:59 GMT

Ovi Maps has been a run-away success on the Nokia app store with the maps and navigation app racing past 1 million downloads in a single week. "We're averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day," said Anssi Vanjoki,...

Story-books that read themselves: Penguin's interactive Qbooks

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:54:06 GMT

Soon bed-time stories will be able to read themselves to your kids. Penguin's new digital Qbooks for kids bring touch and voice technology to popular children's picture books. So you may not need to be there for their bedtime -...

A Shredder with a twist: White Goat makes loo roll out of office paper

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:51:41 GMT

I'd heard of pasta-making machines, but not toilet-paper manufacturing ones. But a Japanese company have taken recycling to a new level by making one. And not only have they made it, they've called it White Goat which is a great...

World Surfer - an AR iPhone app that actually works right now

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:49:18 GMT

Augmented Reality app Layar may not work on the iPhone for a few months to come, but in the meantime try out AR iPhone app World Surfer 2. Made by San Fran company Geovector, World Surfer 2 is an augmented...

We do want privacy: half of Facebook users have customised their privacy settings

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:49:18 GMT

Facebook released some stats on how users have adapted to the new privacy environment on the site, introduced at the beginning of December. There were worries that people wouldn't bother to customise their privacy settings and would just let Facebook's...

Ten Geeky Valentine's Presents: For Her

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:09:12 GMT

Valentine's day is next week - what are you going to get the sweet geek girl in your life/ get for yourself/share with the cat? ShinyShiny have rustled up a selection of geeky Valentine's presents, ranging from the cute to...

Heart app syncs with your lover's iPhone: an app for Valentine's Day

Anna Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:32:50 GMT

Either romantic or schmaltzy depending on your current relationship status and attitude to romance, the ifallinlove app syncs to your lover's iPhone and depending on how near you are to the object of your affections, the heart on the screen...

Web Surfer - an AR iPhone app that actually works right now

Anna Leach — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:00 GMT