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| Mar 8, 2016 | When Snap was young: the early years | Over 110M images sent in its first year; by the end of its second year over 150M were sent a day
As our readers know, Vator has started a series called: When they were young.
It's a look back at the modest days of startups, how they evolved... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Kids need to produce, not just consume technology: Mario Armstrong | Four tech reporters writing for national print publications or appearing on national television and radio programs live in the Baltimore area.
Pinch yourself. Still here?
On Wednesday, Technical.ly Baltimore gathered together television and... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up? | I assumed that VHS tapes had gone the route of Polaroid film and were continuing to be phased out of existence. I must have been too hasty, because according to the Entertainment Retailer’s Association, videocassette sales in Britain have m... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Entourage eDGe electronic reader adds PressDisplay newspapers: Read Marca from wherever! | Another day, another electronic book reader not called the nookor Kindlegets a content deal. The Entourage eDGe has signed a deal with Newspapers Direct, giving it access to papers like The Daily Mail, Marca(!), and The Washington Post. Thi... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | For the true Apple lover: the iMac G4 lamp | So your friend is an Apple head. He’s got the Mac Pro, the MacBook, the Air, the iPhone; he’s got Apple sheets, an Apple tattoo, he eats an apple every day — right, he’s got it all.
…or does he?
His collection will not be complete until he ... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Vibrating hearing aid being developed | A new product being developed in London will help the deaf to hear, using vibrations which can be felt through the skin. While the technology is still rudimentary, it has exciting potential for people who are completely deaf or deaf and bli... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Flogging while blogging: Recombu tries something slightly different | “I’m a mobile phone expert,” writes Andrew Lim humbly, as he explains the concept behind his new venture with Jamie Harwood. Recombu is part fresh idea, part Shiny Media remnants (Susi Weaser, wannabe “Queen of London” and erstwhile editrix... |
| Jul 24, 2009 | Shiny Unhappy People – UK's Shiny Media Blog Network Engulfed In Chaos | [Additional reporting by Paul Carr]. Back in the heady days of 2007, flush with what was officially announced as $4.5m in funding from incubator Brightstation Ventures, UK Blog network Shiny Media held an event for advertising agencies to c... |
| Apr 14, 2009 | Own your own Steve Jobs plushie | If you miss all the Cult of Steve as much as we do, fear not Internet citizen! The kind folks at Podbrix have heard us cry out “Where is Steve?” and have responded by making the next best thing to a gilded idol of Apple’s fearless leader: a... |
| Apr 13, 2009 | Space Invaders piggy bank rewards youth for saving money | I must have shoved unimaginable quantities of quarters into various arcade games over the years, trying desperately to reach that next level, or defeat the next boss. If I could have put those into a piggy bank, rather than the coffers of s... |
| Mar 2, 2009 | Wrappz decorates your laptops, iPods, and game consoles | As a college student, I’ve seen all sorts of junk on laptop cases, from fraternity stickers and sports team logos to presidential candidates and cause-related stickers. London-based Wrappz has tapped into this market providing covers for la... |
| Jan 30, 2009 | Lose weight the Hello Kitty way | In the CrunchGear chat room this morning we were talking about exercise. Someone linked to Hundred Push Ups, and issued a challenge to see how many push ups we could each do. We postured and boasted and tried to convince one another that bl... |
| Jan 29, 2009 | A twee cuckoo clock watch | This isn’t a real product but wouldn’t it be great if it were? I’d be able to hear a delightful cuckoo sound emanating from my girlish wrists, every hour spent along staring at my computer screen noted and categorized by that infernal bird,... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | MCH Media's iPod Killer from the UK! | Truth be told, maybe the MCH Media CS-one Media Box Touch isn’t an iPod killer. It’s a flash-based personal media player equipped with a 3.2-inch touch screen, CMOS camera, accelerometer, 18 hour battery and touch buttons around the bezel. ... |
| Jan 2, 2009 | Cute and cuddly monkey webcam is a pedophiles wet dream | Granted, this webcam isn’t loaded with the latest gizmos and widgets, but it’s so cute. And it holds your pens and pencils! The whole cute and cuddly monkey webcam only goes for $25 too. Look at it. So cute!
USB Geek via Shiny Shiny |
| Dec 31, 2008 | Girly guitar controller for PS2 | If you are a girly girl, or if for some reason you love someone with an obsession with hearts and the color pink, then you may be interested in this pink heart-shaped wireless guitar for the PS2. The guitar was designed by the teen girl ban... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | iCap MP3 player for those who want to party | If you want your friend or relative to get beaten up, this is the perfect gift for them. The iCap is an MP3 player with a speaker mounted on the brim of the cap. It holds 1GB of songs, features an FM tuner, voice recorder, and if you want t... |
| Nov 22, 2008 | Turn your old iPod into a cigarette holder | Kiss your alveoli goodbye with this iPod+cigarette holder hack. There’s no instructions per se—merely open up your (previous generation) iPod, remove the insides, then stick your death sticks in there. It’s not so much a project as it is a ... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Party Rats, the ultimate accessory for dancing poorly | Every time I go to a wild and crazy rave, someone always points out the lack of rodents. They’re always like, “Man, this party is bumpin’. If only someone had thought to bring a bunch of rodents, my night would be truly remarkable.” Now, th... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Animal and insect earbuds, the perfect gift for someone you don't want to hang out with anymore | When the emoticon earbud covers made their way out, I thought they were pretty cool. Sure, they were dorky as all hell – but they were cute. I bought my girlfriend a pair, she loved’em, and that was that.
Taking the same earbuds-as-art idea... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Back to School: Dorm room light show | Well, well, well. It’s been quite a back-to-school week here at CrunchGear. We learned a little bit about affordable notebooks and netbooks, what time-draining video games to avoid and even what to do about feeding yourself now that you’re ... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | Unsolvable subwoofer inspired by Rubik’s cube | Like the Rubik’s Cube, do you? Also like booty-thumping bass in your face? Then you, my friend, are the ideal marketing segment for Elac, maker of the Rubik’s Cube-inspired MicroSub 2010 BT subwoofer.
It’s not as huge as it looks in the abo... |
| Aug 29, 2008 | Harman Kardon breaks glass with GLA-55 speakers | Indiana Jones or Superman prop; classy or just plain tacky? I can’t decide but I’ve to give the boys over at Harman Kardon for suck a clever name: GLA-55. ‘Cause it’s made out of glass. Get it?
Anyway, getting down to the details. Only two ... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | Hidden camera clock brings out the spy in all of us | No one will ever expect your tacky clock’s real purphase is spying. For only £37.95, you too can feel like a MI5 agent just like Bond.
Just place the clock in the desired location, plug in the wireless receiver to the mains (UK adapter incl... |
| Aug 2, 2008 | Hello Kitty mobile phone for The Fonz | You know how Fonzie could control the jukebox by hitting it with his fist in just the right spot? The record would change and just what everybody wanted to hear would start playing. Well, this is the phone for him.
Sporting Bluetooth, a 1 m... |
| Jul 28, 2008 | Enormous eyeball lamps modeled after your very own peepers | Jeepers! Creepers!
Where’d you get those gigantic, luminescent glass peepers!
Why, from French studio 5.5 Designers, of course! One simply submits a photo of one’s eyeballs and fills out a little sheet, and boom: head-sized, blown-glass eye... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | Badger badger badger badger, mushroom vacuum | I could use one of these. I love sesame bagels, but they rain seeds down like no other and i usually end up with a rather farinaceous desktop. These cute-as-a-button mushroom vacuums (we’ll call them mushruums — oh my god, I’m a genius) are... |
| Jul 11, 2008 | Hide your nasty popcorn habit from friends and family | Oh man, here’s a thing that looks like a juke box but – BUT! – it’s actually a popcorn maker. Behold the future! Not only does it make popcorn, it makes movie theater style popcorn (yay!) using “healthy hot air” (awww). Why can’t they use h... |
| Jun 20, 2008 | Meet the new iPhone accessories, same as the old iPhone accessories | Griffin Technology just released a gaggle of “3G iPhone” accessories, which, considering the minute changes in form factor, is basically a marketing play. To keep your sweet phone safe they have a $40 Nu Form case and to talk to your friend... |
| May 23, 2008 | Shiny Shiny gets a hands on with the SuperSmoker: I know, baby, you'd dig it the most | It breaks down like this: it’s legal to buy it, it’s legal to own it, and, if you’re the proprietor of a SuperSmoker sim-cigarette shop, it’s legal to sell it. It’s legal to carry it, but that doesn’t really matter ’cause — get a load of th... |
| May 7, 2008 | T-Mo Europe launching the Diamond as the MDA Compact IV | Everyone’s favorite classy phone is being redubbed as the MDA Compact IV and sold in Europe — it will come free with certain plans, just like we like it.
Sadly they’re dropping the Diamond name and there is no mention of U.S. availability. ... |
| Mar 17, 2008 | Polaroid makes PMPs now instead of Polaroids | I would have preferred that Polaroid just ran itself into the ground making the same exact Polaroid film cameras and cartridges, but someone got ambitious over there and now they’re getting into the business of making just about everything.... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | Samsung's pebblish YP-S2 MP3 player groped on video | The ladies at Shiny Shiny got there paws on Samsung’s newest 1GB MP3 players. They’re sort of meh.
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| Mar 11, 2008 | Home-grown video shows on tech are almost there. But not quite. | Without access to a potential audience of millions in the US and the subsequent advertising revenues, video webcasts on this side of the pond have been patchy affairs. And especially in the realm of tech business news the content tends to b... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Lily Allen's MySpace says she got a free MacBook Air | [photopress:2003638115.jpg,full,left]We credit the lasses at Shiny Shiny with the scoop, but it appears as if one Lily Allen, the only pop princess I actually kinda wanna make out with, has a MacBook Air, and we do not. It’s ok, though, I’m... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | Stay warm while contracting incurable cancer this winter | Most of my female friends — yes, I have some — are smokers. Why is it? Because they’re full of angst and hate life, and they know smoking makes you exactly 26% cooler than not smoking, they’re not dumb. Anyway, Seattle this winter has been ... |
| Dec 28, 2007 | Wiimote Gamer Glove: Nerd Alert level delta | Do you often find your Wiimote airborne? Is the included strap too wussy for your bulging Bowling muscles? Are you tired of beaning your roommate in the melon each time you serve in Tennis? Have we got the thing for you!
Sure, it’s another ... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | Chip Clips: Stocking Stuffer for your geeky girlfriend | Attention, ladies of Seattle: If you’re walking around wearing these, and I see you, we’re getting married right then and right there.
Computer chip hair clips! [Etsy, via 7 Gadgets, via Shiny Shiny] |
| Nov 26, 2007 | Staggering Genius: The Beer Pager | Where was this gadget when I was in the blur I sometimes confusingly refer to as my 20s? This thing is amazing, and I need to get one.
It’s a beer cozy with a built-in beeper. Can’t remember where your beer is? Use the included remote to pa... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | Girls Gone Wild: Shocking Taser Guns | These girls sound like Chihuahuas in a blender.
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| May 17, 2007 | Soccer Gadgets Just In Time For The FA Cup | This Saturday is the FA Cp final over in Ingerland, when newly crowned EPL champions Manchester United face Chelsea, whose coach was just arrested because his dog is crazy. Something dog-related at any rate. So Shiny Shiny, the premiere Web... |
| May 15, 2007 | Pink Seal Pendant Really A Tazer | The next time your girl has to walk home from your apartment by herself (jerk), make sure she’s equipped with this seemingly innocent pink seal pendant. Though it’s an extremely beautiful piece of jewelry, the real secret lies within the se... |
| May 11, 2007 | USB Chessboard: Simple = Cool | I have two seperate chess programs on my Treo (paid for, thanks), but no matter how wicked my knight-moving skillz get in the virtual world, I always get my ass handed to me in a real chess match. I think it’s something to do with the way w... |
| May 8, 2007 | Soltronix Solar Powered AM/FM Radio: Save the Environment, Listen to Hot Talk | From the looks of it, going “green” is set to become the next SoHo fashion trend, following the micro-sized dog fad that’s all the rage right now. One way to get jump on the bandwagon is with the Soltronix Headphone AM/FM Radio. It’s a pair... |
| May 4, 2007 | Ole! Cinco De Mayo Dip Tray Commemorates Mexican Victory, Cheese | Cinco de Mayo (The Fifth of May) is a Mexican celebration which commemorates the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguin over the French occupational forces of Mexico. What a better way to celebrate this holiday tha... |
| Apr 18, 2007 | Jabra Klipsch Stereo For Mobile Phones | Jabra and Klipsch have teamed up to bring you a speaker dock for your mobile phone. Apparently, consumers want a speaker dock to listen to whatever it is they have crammed on their handset. Would any of you actually use this? You have the a... |
| Apr 6, 2007 | Butterfly Cellphone, As Designed By a 15-Year-Old | Again, cellphone concepts usually outclass actual cellphones all the time, but this one—the Butterfly—was designed by a 15-year-old Canadian kid. It’s part cellphone and part social networking device and has built-in Wi-Fi to surf the Web. ... |
| Mar 13, 2007 | Hide Your Nano, Make it Bigger | There is one thought that stings the back of the mind of every iPod owner: what if my MP3 friend gets ripped off? The brains at iDisguise think they have a solution: camouflage, in the form of fake Altoid-like tins. You put your Nano into t... |
| Mar 4, 2007 | Hand Warmers Use Eneloop Technology | Although winter seems to be coming to end in NYC (I’m sure I’ll eat my words next week), these eco-friendly hand warmers, dubbed the Eneloop Kairo, are good for those who find themselves outside more than they want to. The Sanyo device uses... |
| Feb 26, 2007 | Gotcha! Spider Torture | Alright, I’ll admit it. I’m arachnophobic. It’s like my only fear. Well that and germs. But that’s the only other thing. Aside from little people and gingers, though those aren’t so much of phobias as paranoias (there is collusion between t... |
| Feb 24, 2007 | Knick-Knack Paddywhack, Give a Dog a Phone | As if your dog isn’t pampered enough with expensive sweaters and fancy steaks, here’s another luxury item that actually sounds useful.
On4 Communications is planning to release a cell phone for dogs. The PetsCell is a two-way, waterproof co... |
| Feb 18, 2007 | Memory Cards for the Chinese New Year | If you were born in 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983 or 1995, you are considered a pig, according to the Chinese zodiac. And this year, when the Chinese celebrate 2007, the pig returns to prominence.
Supplied by Taiwan-based PQI, these li... |
| Jan 23, 2007 | Shiny Shiny Flashes the LG Shine | Girls, fire up your jealousy motors, because Susi from Shiny Shiny in the UK has gotten her well-manicured hands on a phone that you’re going to want (and most vain men, to boot): the LG Shine.
What’s special about the Shine? When the scree... |
| Jan 22, 2007 | Solar Flower: Double the Hippie Feel-Good Junk | Here we are in 2007, a new year full of promise and heartfelt bliss, and I find this. It’s a Solar Night Flower. Sunlight charges it during the day, and the Solar Night Flower’s (SNF for short) fiber optic veins light up at night, giving th... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | Battery-Powered Pole Dancer | What happened to Big Mouth Billy the Singing Bass? Can some someone please bring him back? I think my left eye just exploded.
Shiny one minute preview: the USB pole dancer [ShinyShiny] |
| Nov 22, 2006 | "Healing Moon" for Hippy Shut-Ins | If your apartment is anything like our apartment, meaning small, cramped, and with token “windows,” then you might benefit from this “Healing Moon” by Brando. We’re not sure if it actually heals anything, but it does make a half-way decent ... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Tiny Living Xmas Tree for Your Desk | For less than $10, you can tell that person in your office who whines about getting an office Xmas tree to STFU. And this little guy isn’t some plastic fakey tree, but a real growing organic lifeform. You’ve heard of them, now you can get y... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | BOB Will Turn Off Your TV | Back in the old days, my mom was around to shut off the TV when I was watching too much. She also used to tell me to stop using the computer for so long because I would hurt my eyes. Sadly, those days are gone and I now live in Chicago, one... |
| Oct 21, 2006 | Sudoko Toilet Paper: You Know You're Thinking About It | Sudoku toilet paper is exactly what it sounds like: toilet paper with that insanely popular sudoku game on it. So, instead of reading Maxim as you do your ungodly business, you can do math puzzles, provided you keep a pen on the back of you... |
| Oct 19, 2006 | Personal Soundtrack Is Exactly What It Sounds Like | I live in what could be classified as “a big city,” and every day my journey to work is different. Sometimes I’m early and I get off the El early and walk casually down Michigan Ave. Sometimes, I’m extremely late so I have to walk briskly (... |
| Oct 18, 2006 | My Personal Weight Issues, Meet My Personal Computer | I never said that I was exceptionally thin, but some people (Blake) have been criticizing my weight, as of late (Gavin is a fat bastard – Blake). Fortunately, Tanita has developed the PC InnerScan scale. Upon first glance, this is just a hi... |
| Oct 18, 2006 | Come to Korea, Where People Can Actually Try Phones Before Buying Them | Katie from Shiny Shiny appears to be on the same Korean junket as our own John Biggs. Along with a picture of an AnyCall/Samsung 7-megapixel camera phone with a 3x optical zoom, she took some video of a T-World Zone phone shop in Seoul that... |
| Oct 13, 2006 | Magic Lightboard…Y'know, For Kids | Here’s a new toy from the land of hot tea and The Who. It’s a small board that allows you to draw animated images. As the product page puts it, the Magic Lightboard allows kids to “bring their creations to life.” It could also be used to “m... |
| Oct 13, 2006 | Lego Ice Tray: Make Frozen H2O Legos! | We could use these new Lego ice trays to make Lego ice cubes and build a Fortress of Solitude for our Superman Returns action figure, but we have a better idea.
We’re going to fill them up with vodka and Jell-O mix (cherry) to build a Castl... |
| Oct 6, 2006 | Minox Classic 4-Megapixel Leica M3 Camera | Either Minox has stumbled upon the land of the giants, or this miniaturized Leica M3 is the smallest 4-megapixel camera we’ve ever seen. Featuring an old 50’s style camera styling, the Leica M3 fits into your pocket, palm or purse and store... |
| Oct 6, 2006 | Emoticons For Your Ears | Oh, fashion. How I don’t understand you. Here’s a new product that slips over your earbuds and look like emoticons. What are they called, you ask?
Emotibuds!—of course. Currently, there are four designs: “starry eyed,” “skeptical,” “pacifie... |
| Oct 4, 2006 | Dyson Airblade Video | Here’s a video of the Dyson Airblade in use, drying your hands and killing all sorts of British germs. Suzy from Shiny Shiny demos it for us, showing how it dries your hand like the car wash dries your car.
The one thing we found kind of di... |
| Sep 30, 2006 | iBag Turntable: Plus iPod, Minus Turntable | At first glance the iBag Turntable looked very cool, but that reaction wore off as soon as I realized that it doesn’t really use vinyl. What you really have here is a backpack that you can connect your iPod to. With four AA batteries you ca... |
| Sep 29, 2006 | Philips Rumbling Gaming Headphones | This pair of headphones from Philips goes around your neck like a neck cushion (as seen in The Office last night) and have a pair of earbuds that go into your ear. When an appropriate sound effect is fired, the neck “brace” rumbles around a... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Sonnet Volta Gives Your iPod Even More Juice | If the recent battery upgrades to the iPod line still weren’t enough for you, grab the Volta. It plugs into the dock of your iPod, rests on the back, and gives the player up to 16 hours of video and 80 hours of music. That’s a large increas... |
| Sep 7, 2006 | Hand Powered Paper, Credit Card and CD Shredder | |
| Sep 1, 2006 | Samsung SDC-MS61 6-megapixel Shooter Revealed At IFA | Not much detail yet, but the SDC-MS61 point and shoot from Samsung was just announced at IFA. It has 6 megapixels, a 3-inch LCD, MP3 recording and shoots MPEG4 video. It even plays back MP3s, which is definitely useful when you’re trying to... |
| Aug 28, 2006 | Pretty Pepper Spray | Pepperface has introduced a line of high-end pepper spray canisters that are gold-plated and studded with Swarovski crystals. So if your girlfriend likes shiny things, but you haven’t yet been able to convince her to carry some protection, ... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Godot Aria M9500 4GB MP3 Player | There’s something eye-catching about the brushed steel look of this Godot Aria M9500 4GB MP3 Player, which can store nearly a thousand songs in MP3, OGG or WMA format. Plus, it has an FM radio on board, audio bookmarking and a convenient li... |
| Feb 17, 2006 | The Zicplay Tuneview iPod remote | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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According Shiny Shiny, a new remote for the iPod will emerge in next month. The Zicplay Tuneview will be the first of its kind ... |
