April 2017 - Page 4 of 8 - How to Kill an Hour

Huawei chief questions Smartwatches

20th April 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology /by billywright

Eric Xu, CEO of Chinese tech firm Huawei has said he doesn’t see the point in smartwatches.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, he responded to a question about smartphones longevity due to the rise of wearables:

Mr Xu said: “I’ve never figured out why we need to wear smartwatches when everything we need is on our phones….I’m not a man who wears watches, and I’ve never been optimistic about this market.”

Controversial but others have shared a different approach to Smartwatches:

“Smartwatches are a solution looking for a problem, rather than being a game-changer,” Ben Wood, an analyst at tech consultancy CCS Insight told the BBC, adding “2017 is a pivotal year for smartwatches with lots of new launches at the end of this year. That doesn’t guarantee success, but with a lot of them, we’ll see if people want them.”

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What do you think of smartwatches?

What do they have to do to make them go mainstream?

Do you see the point of them?

Are they more of a companion piece of tech than a must have?

What features would you put on them to turn it into a must have item?

The Flash in Injustice 2!

20th April 2017/in Entertainment, Games /by billywright

The Flash in Injustice 2. Just WOW.

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Episode 213 Minipresso

20th April 2017/in Shows /by billywright

Apple buying Disney?!

19th April 2017/in Entertainment, Film /TV /by billywright

According to a story circulating the internet, Apple is weighing the option of buying Disney. For $200 billion.

“Recently, investors have increased their expectations that Apple could seriously consider acquiring Disney,” the report says.

Making it clear that Apple are open to “acquisitions of any size”

Disney, one of the few companies in the world that is as instantly recognizable and popular as Apple, makes for a compelling potential partner.

It would require federal help though:

Apple would need U.S. regulators to give it a “tax holiday” to repatriate offshore cash to fund an acquisition of Disney. Assuming Apple could obtain a 9% tax rate, it would effectively have access to cash of $223 billion.

Interesting.

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Lego Worlds

19th April 2017/in Entertainment, Games /by billywright

Funk Butcher played a really cool game this past week called Lego Worlds:

LEGO Worlds is a galaxy of procedurally-generated Worlds made entirely of LEGO bricks which you can freely manipulate and dynamically populate with LEGO models and play out your own unique adventures! Even Play with a select number of real-life LEGO sets, taken from the Classic and current LEGO themes!

Use the multi-tool to shape environments and alter any World to your liking: raise the terrain to create vast mountain ranges, or enter the Brick-by-Brick editor to build anything you can imagine. Plus build any world you can imagine using the brick-by-brick editor tool and prefabricated LEGO structures

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Avegant Glyph

19th April 2017/in Gadgets, Gadgets / Tech /by billywright

This week we tried out the amazing Avegant Glyph that allows you to watch your favorite movies, play your favourite games by mimicking natural eyesight through LED projection onto millions of microscopic mirrors using Avegant’s Patented Retinal Imaging Technology. But you aren’t shut off from your surroundings! Watch the video for more information and check below to buy your own and to listen to the guys thoughts on the Avegant Glyph!

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Sleepy Mouse

19th April 2017/in Entertainment, Games /by billywright

Sleepy Mouse likes to sleep, loves his cheese but hates to wake up hangry! Get the cheese to Sleepy Mouse before he wakes. Avoid alarm clocks, radios, triggers, magnets, holes and moving platforms in this 75 level, 2D physics based puzzle game. Make friends with blue cheese to stop Sleepy Mouse getting in a stink and pick up sheep for more sleep.
Find the smartest solution to the puzzles on each of the 75 hand crafted levels. Earn Gold, Silver and Bronze stars by completing each level with as much of Sleepy Mouse’s precious sleep as possible. Shot complexity helps you to get top scores so aim for as many bounces as possible on your final shot.

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Episode 212 Avegant Glyph

19th April 2017/in Shows /by billywright

ADT MAIA

16th April 2017/in Gadgets, Gadgets / Tech /by billywright

Have you ever looked forward to leftovers at work only to find someone’s got there before you? Or come home to find your flatmates have finished all your milk, borrowed your toiletries or even helped themselves to your alcohol?

Well you’re not alone as new research from ADT reveals that one in four Brits have been the victim of ‘Petty Pilferers’.

So ADT has used its expertise to create MAIA. A limited edition concept: smart motion-activated camera alarms to stop Petty Pilferers in their tracks and identify who’s behind leftover looting.

This innovative concept design uses smart technology, sending a picture of the would-be pilferers to the owner’s phone as soon as they go near the alarmed item using motion-sensor technology. So you can catch the culprit with their hand literally in the cookie jar.

(Credit: ADT)